This is so interesting - and confirms what many in the US (pro Trump, and some libertarians of the Ron Paul stripe) that sanctions have made Russia stronger. Trump's tariffs are essentially auto-sanctions on the US, with the same aim of busting up the globalist order and strengthening US autonomy. In tandem there is acceptance and some embracing of dethroning the $ as the World reserve currency- replaced by gold or crypto or whatever. Vance has made some revealing statements to this effect.
I can say that despite what you might read in mass globalist media (by accident for sure since how can you avoid it)- tariffs are widely popular with working class (deplorable) Americans. I also want to touch on a cultural aspect that would be hard for Professor Dugin to voice: the American Dream is rugged. It needs to battle the elemental forces of nature and have a strong competitive cultural rival, and pussy Europe just doesn't cut it. During the Cold War, Russia was held in awe and respect in the US. Nuclear war was taken seriously, and detante was popular politically. Even Ronald Reagan - in his aggressive posturing - held this respect. It is important to note that Reagan had survived an ideological purging early in his career, a walk through fire, that Trump dealt with more harshly later in his. Purging by the American Nomenklatura. Trump's taking on of Harvard for example- this is 1000x more ballsy than taking on the CIA and USAID. Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Stanford... they are the trout farms for the US Nomenklatura. And he just pissed bleach into their water.
A problem since with the quixotic demise of England* I see the virus of its millennial Viking heritage infecting the English Language, one that once had the potential to serve well the role of global medium.
Sergey Lavrov is indeed one of the greatest diplomats of all time.
I wish him here on earth for many more years. I trust that this sentiment will not go wrong.
Apropos your commentary on the holdovers from the 1990s, they are indeed a problem, or rather the tail end of the pathological final evolution of what I term the Anglo-Norman superdynasty: one that has survived more than a millennium having (it seems) developed a virus-like mutation enabling a reinvention every time (approximately 2 centuries) a civic-political crisis develops, this with an invention of a new folklore constructed synchronously.
I hope to be able to write to you more directly about this because, indeed, this viral Polity does threaten Russia and the rest of the unaligned world. It will leave its traces in the English Language even as its homeland evaporates.
This is so interesting - and confirms what many in the US (pro Trump, and some libertarians of the Ron Paul stripe) that sanctions have made Russia stronger. Trump's tariffs are essentially auto-sanctions on the US, with the same aim of busting up the globalist order and strengthening US autonomy. In tandem there is acceptance and some embracing of dethroning the $ as the World reserve currency- replaced by gold or crypto or whatever. Vance has made some revealing statements to this effect.
I can say that despite what you might read in mass globalist media (by accident for sure since how can you avoid it)- tariffs are widely popular with working class (deplorable) Americans. I also want to touch on a cultural aspect that would be hard for Professor Dugin to voice: the American Dream is rugged. It needs to battle the elemental forces of nature and have a strong competitive cultural rival, and pussy Europe just doesn't cut it. During the Cold War, Russia was held in awe and respect in the US. Nuclear war was taken seriously, and detante was popular politically. Even Ronald Reagan - in his aggressive posturing - held this respect. It is important to note that Reagan had survived an ideological purging early in his career, a walk through fire, that Trump dealt with more harshly later in his. Purging by the American Nomenklatura. Trump's taking on of Harvard for example- this is 1000x more ballsy than taking on the CIA and USAID. Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Stanford... they are the trout farms for the US Nomenklatura. And he just pissed bleach into their water.
We have those people in the west too. They are known as “globalists” but many are jews.
In every bunch of roses 🥀 you will always find a few pricks.
Liberal, illiberal woke totalitarian, or actually just globalized neoliberal? We are nearing the end of words and their uses.
A problem since with the quixotic demise of England* I see the virus of its millennial Viking heritage infecting the English Language, one that once had the potential to serve well the role of global medium.
* not Britain, a quiet but sharp distinction.
Gracias.
Sergey Lavrov is indeed one of the greatest diplomats of all time.
I wish him here on earth for many more years. I trust that this sentiment will not go wrong.
Apropos your commentary on the holdovers from the 1990s, they are indeed a problem, or rather the tail end of the pathological final evolution of what I term the Anglo-Norman superdynasty: one that has survived more than a millennium having (it seems) developed a virus-like mutation enabling a reinvention every time (approximately 2 centuries) a civic-political crisis develops, this with an invention of a new folklore constructed synchronously.
I hope to be able to write to you more directly about this because, indeed, this viral Polity does threaten Russia and the rest of the unaligned world. It will leave its traces in the English Language even as its homeland evaporates.
With thanks and very good wishes!