I generally agree with this analysis, or maybe more accurately I would like to believe in it. Many aspects of the new administration seem to reinforce it, but the situation is somewhat distorted by the fact that Trump has chosen to ally with Zionists, presumably to more effectively wield power. It's certainly helpful if major donors and Zionist advocacy institutions can help your friends and hurt your enemies. But in this respect we end up aligning with standard neocon doctrine. Bombing Houthis and potentially being drawn into a war with Iran has nothing to do with focusing on our regional sphere of influence. Israel's enemies are now our enemies.
As MacFarlane says: There are still people who believe that orange canard, unfortunately.
The opposite is the case, as we saw with the recent attack on Yemen, which killed about 100 or more a lot of civilians.
Yemen has not launched any new strikes on shipping in the Red Sea-- only said they would target Israeli vessels, if Israel continued to starve Palestinians and renege on its ceasefire deal – the one that Trump and Netanyahu was supposed to guarantee.
When the ceasefire was being formulated, the Israelis had no intention of honoring a real ceasefire beyond the release of hostages in the Phase 1—and that they would not let the deal go to Phase 2.
And that is what happened.
Not “everybody”. Just the Trump and Israel Netanyahu.
Yemen has shown good faith by stopping its attacks in the Red Sea, so their recent announcement was a demand for Israel – and the US-- to keep their side of the bargain.
Trump responded with a pre-emptive strike—and also threats against Iran,
What does that mean?
It means that the ceasefire agreement died a lot of innocent Yemenis.
More than that it proves yet again that US and trump are agreement incapable — that it sees “peace” as the result of a win-lose game in which only it wins, without need for compromise.
The Houthis responded with missile strikes against the USS Truman aircraft carrier. At some point they will do some real damage. Eventually a missile gets through. It is only a matter of time before American sailors come home in body bags.
The message to the world is: never, ever trust the USA. It does not matter what Trump says—his aim is the same as every other puppet President – world Full Spectrum dominance and make Israel great MAGA/MIGA.
Yes, America First. First in all respects. Amerika uber alles.
In that other operational theatre, Trump begged Putin to spare the lives of the Ukrainian soldiers trapped in Kursk -- and of course, of the 30 to 50 NATO personnel trapped with them. Putin said he would – if they surrendered. But he also said the if they had broken Russia law they would be tried as terrorists, adding that mercenaries – which might technically include the NATO operators, are not protected under the Geneva Convention.
No matter, Zelensky says they are not trapped at all. No big deal. And the media are running with the story.
if that is the case, the Russians can just go ahead and wipe out the thousands of Ukrainian troops … um…not surrounded in the Kursk area — as they are doing to all those who attempt to flee.
The Trump people apparently took Putin’s commitment to international law and the Geneva Convention as weakness. You may recall the HIghway of Death in Iraq.
Mercy is was not something Americans would do!
On the night of February 26–27, 1991, thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were retreating to Baghdad, after a ceasefire was announced, when President George Bush ordered his forces to slaughter the retreating Iraqi army.
The Highway of Death was a template for an American “ceasefire”.
Trump is talking as though he will have a ceasefire any day now and mutual territorial concessions on the part of both Russia and Ukraine-- while continuing lethal support for Ukraine- and imposing more sanctions on Russia.
I feel a bout of cognitive dissonance coming on,
Forget “Trump Derangement Syndrome” — what we have to worry about is complete American Derangement. It can only get worse. It’s viral and spreading.
Does Mr Dugin approve the posts you upload here? Does he even know this newsletter exists?
Do you imagine that Trump is a genuine multi-polar thinker?
He is Jesuit educated, Mafia connected and Zionist financed. He is an international criminal globalist through to the marrow and his future dream is a totalitarian world.
Mearsheimer makes an importance of self-defining as a "LIBERAL Realist", because he is an actual political scholar rather than some new-right poser.
This is important because what he is saying, is that the real core Liberal values, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience, liberal democracy, and even welfare systems, are what makes a society worth living in.
I'm getting heartily tired of this constant association of Liberalism with essentially what the WW2 Nazis were about, and what became Imperial America's bedrock assumptions once they absorbed the WW2 Nazis with operation paperclip - and combined with the British Empire's elites and their hegemonic plans (The very ones who had funded German re-armament with Hitler).
You'd have to be pretty bloody stupid to believe these people when they proclaimed "Liberal Interventionalism" to be actually defending the peoples of the target countries, when it was blatantly obviously just naked warmongering for resources and geopolitical strategy. And yet... somehow the New Right manages to believe these fascists when they proclaim themselves "Liberal".
Rather embarrassing to fall for such an obvious marketing strategy, I would have said.
Trump, Rubio et al, would be perfectly fine with being in charge of a unipolar world. "Multipolarity" is an alien concept to American elites. Indeed, it seems to mainly come fro the non-Christian countries such as China. One God, One Religion, One Dictatorship is buried deep within Christendom.
Something for Dugin to ponder when he's promoting this middle-eastern/Roman cult so loudly.
Compelling stuff, but I must take issue with the statement that "Realists and liberals are the two main schools of thought in international relations, opposing each other in all aspects, especially in their fundamental understanding of sovereignty. Realists consider sovereignty to be absolute, while liberals see it as relative, striving to subordinate national administrations to a higher international authority. In their view, this should eventually lead to the unification of humanity and the creation of a World Government. Realists categorically reject this, seeing it as an assault on the freedom and independence of states."
I first read this as an expression of Dugin's thought, but I couldn't reconcile it with what I understand his philosophy to mean. Now I understand that it wasn't written by Dugin and couldn't have been written by him or any other Russian.
When Russians write about America – and Trump's America in particular – it is not possible to do so without projecting their own understanding of Russia onto this geopolitical entity, which inherited the mantle of Great Game antagonist from the British Empire that preceded it. Therefore, I don't think that this statement holds if Dugin, the foremost philosopher of our times, is also to be a standard bearer for geopolitical realism.
In my opinion, which is informed by Dugin's philosophy, realists don't consider sovereignty to be absolute or "relative" (subordinate to international authority) but precisely relational; that is to say, a sovereign can only know himself through relationship with another sovereign. This is why Russia and the USA (historically Britain) need each other, although the latter entity is in principle replaceable (perhaps with China or even India).
My second issue with this piece follows from the first. Yes, MAGA is not about spreading liberal democracy worldwide, and not about Atlanticism, but specifically about the United States as a nation-state. However, this statement reveals a significant problem in the sense that the USA can never be a mere nation state, since there is no nation (in Russian, narod) around which it might coalesce.
Throughout its many incarnations (Tsarist Empire, Soviet Union and now Federation), Russia has shown itself to be capable of transcending the nation state model to articulate the model of civilisational state. Perhaps only China can claim a similar success in bringing together multiple peoples into a coherent civilisational space. While Russianness (russkost') and the Russian language might be the glue that holds this civilisational state together, the state cannot be reduced to it. Rather, it is something like rossiyscost' that now attempts to fill the void left by the departure of Soviet ideology. As they say, scratch a Russian to reveal a Tartar, but there are other peoples that also might be revealed by such scratching. The question is, can they continue to get along with each other?
I would be very interested to hear what the author thinks might happen if MAGA successfully reduces the USA to a nation state. Ultimately, I don't think this will be possible since there is no "white nation" to which such a reduction might refer. Britain and its bastard child the USA have been remarkably successful as buccaneering seafaring empires, but the nearest thing they ever came to a civilising discourse was Rudyard Kipling. Russia, on the other hand, or China…
I tend to think that the future, if there is one, will belong to the civilisational states. Nation states now feel like an anachronism, which, at best, will tend to be subsumed into a larger civilisational space like the one which, for all its multiple faults, the EU did set out to create. Whereas those unsinkable aircraft carriers Russia and China currently appear to have the wind in their sails.
Trump is the epitome of a "Narcissist" and "Grandiose Delusionary". NO POTUS in history has ever held such extreme traits of SELF-Deception. (For that one thing, he IS the greatest in history.) Sadly, Trump is a Chump of the EvanZionists, who say that they are "Christians" but, they are only, using Trump to reach their power-hungry lusts. Whether it is anti-Christ, pro-war, theft, lies, or VERY INSECURE in who Christ Jesus is, they stoop to carnal means to demand their way, even though "LOVE does NOT demand its way." Therefore, they deny and blaspheme The Prince of Peace! They deny Christ Jesus and HIS Kingdom-Church, ALONE! ALONE! ALONE!
Not too convinced that the ice is breaking or that the thaw has begun. I may be wrong but it feels like Trump is more keen on shattering the foundations on which the Democrats and the oligarchy behind them have built their power than in engaging in any kind of revolution that could undermine America's global hegemony.
Yes, the hegemony has been dealt a blow and may not be able to afford as much as it could in its heyday but it feels like in recognition of that, Trump just sort of wants a metaphorical ceasefire that would allow them to regroup and restart where they left off with renewed vigour.
Just to prove the point, he ordered the bombing of Houthis!
Realists may need to pop to top level for immediate mode operations. This the rocky road with birds, ravens(?), eating the seed. The discernment on the remaining imbalance after the deep metanoia from the monastery retreat is embedded. No time to trench it out. The field service light was lit with multiple skyscraper solutions possible.
The photo with McCain and the murder of color revolution crows was clearly fully deconstructed. The color splotches matched to field operations. Who thought it was imperative you could generate a lift with satisficing mapping? I guess it was him, Goebbels best hand in this specific field. I doubt there was any malice in the specification, except for disinformation on retreat plans.
Consider Putin’s relationship with Wagner prior to the extended stay at the priory? The ruler of this world teases at him. It was this improper, deformed desire for greater power that closed the paths that Wagner may have allowed. Our Mother is watching.
So, the business is business. I could not tell you which one in the McCain photo was that colonel. But the bargaining is open. Don’t let them close early. The brats who want their bat dung graft payments will want that “peace dividend.” Don’t let it close early and get your major needs resolved.
I generally agree with this analysis, or maybe more accurately I would like to believe in it. Many aspects of the new administration seem to reinforce it, but the situation is somewhat distorted by the fact that Trump has chosen to ally with Zionists, presumably to more effectively wield power. It's certainly helpful if major donors and Zionist advocacy institutions can help your friends and hurt your enemies. But in this respect we end up aligning with standard neocon doctrine. Bombing Houthis and potentially being drawn into a war with Iran has nothing to do with focusing on our regional sphere of influence. Israel's enemies are now our enemies.
As MacFarlane says: There are still people who believe that orange canard, unfortunately.
The opposite is the case, as we saw with the recent attack on Yemen, which killed about 100 or more a lot of civilians.
Yemen has not launched any new strikes on shipping in the Red Sea-- only said they would target Israeli vessels, if Israel continued to starve Palestinians and renege on its ceasefire deal – the one that Trump and Netanyahu was supposed to guarantee.
When the ceasefire was being formulated, the Israelis had no intention of honoring a real ceasefire beyond the release of hostages in the Phase 1—and that they would not let the deal go to Phase 2.
And that is what happened.
Not “everybody”. Just the Trump and Israel Netanyahu.
Yemen has shown good faith by stopping its attacks in the Red Sea, so their recent announcement was a demand for Israel – and the US-- to keep their side of the bargain.
Trump responded with a pre-emptive strike—and also threats against Iran,
What does that mean?
It means that the ceasefire agreement died a lot of innocent Yemenis.
More than that it proves yet again that US and trump are agreement incapable — that it sees “peace” as the result of a win-lose game in which only it wins, without need for compromise.
The Houthis responded with missile strikes against the USS Truman aircraft carrier. At some point they will do some real damage. Eventually a missile gets through. It is only a matter of time before American sailors come home in body bags.
The message to the world is: never, ever trust the USA. It does not matter what Trump says—his aim is the same as every other puppet President – world Full Spectrum dominance and make Israel great MAGA/MIGA.
Yes, America First. First in all respects. Amerika uber alles.
In that other operational theatre, Trump begged Putin to spare the lives of the Ukrainian soldiers trapped in Kursk -- and of course, of the 30 to 50 NATO personnel trapped with them. Putin said he would – if they surrendered. But he also said the if they had broken Russia law they would be tried as terrorists, adding that mercenaries – which might technically include the NATO operators, are not protected under the Geneva Convention.
No matter, Zelensky says they are not trapped at all. No big deal. And the media are running with the story.
if that is the case, the Russians can just go ahead and wipe out the thousands of Ukrainian troops … um…not surrounded in the Kursk area — as they are doing to all those who attempt to flee.
The Trump people apparently took Putin’s commitment to international law and the Geneva Convention as weakness. You may recall the HIghway of Death in Iraq.
Mercy is was not something Americans would do!
On the night of February 26–27, 1991, thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were retreating to Baghdad, after a ceasefire was announced, when President George Bush ordered his forces to slaughter the retreating Iraqi army.
The Highway of Death was a template for an American “ceasefire”.
Trump is talking as though he will have a ceasefire any day now and mutual territorial concessions on the part of both Russia and Ukraine-- while continuing lethal support for Ukraine- and imposing more sanctions on Russia.
I feel a bout of cognitive dissonance coming on,
Forget “Trump Derangement Syndrome” — what we have to worry about is complete American Derangement. It can only get worse. It’s viral and spreading.
//.
Does Mr Dugin approve the posts you upload here? Does he even know this newsletter exists?
Do you imagine that Trump is a genuine multi-polar thinker?
He is Jesuit educated, Mafia connected and Zionist financed. He is an international criminal globalist through to the marrow and his future dream is a totalitarian world.
Mearsheimer makes an importance of self-defining as a "LIBERAL Realist", because he is an actual political scholar rather than some new-right poser.
This is important because what he is saying, is that the real core Liberal values, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience, liberal democracy, and even welfare systems, are what makes a society worth living in.
I'm getting heartily tired of this constant association of Liberalism with essentially what the WW2 Nazis were about, and what became Imperial America's bedrock assumptions once they absorbed the WW2 Nazis with operation paperclip - and combined with the British Empire's elites and their hegemonic plans (The very ones who had funded German re-armament with Hitler).
You'd have to be pretty bloody stupid to believe these people when they proclaimed "Liberal Interventionalism" to be actually defending the peoples of the target countries, when it was blatantly obviously just naked warmongering for resources and geopolitical strategy. And yet... somehow the New Right manages to believe these fascists when they proclaim themselves "Liberal".
Rather embarrassing to fall for such an obvious marketing strategy, I would have said.
Trump, Rubio et al, would be perfectly fine with being in charge of a unipolar world. "Multipolarity" is an alien concept to American elites. Indeed, it seems to mainly come fro the non-Christian countries such as China. One God, One Religion, One Dictatorship is buried deep within Christendom.
Something for Dugin to ponder when he's promoting this middle-eastern/Roman cult so loudly.
Compelling stuff, but I must take issue with the statement that "Realists and liberals are the two main schools of thought in international relations, opposing each other in all aspects, especially in their fundamental understanding of sovereignty. Realists consider sovereignty to be absolute, while liberals see it as relative, striving to subordinate national administrations to a higher international authority. In their view, this should eventually lead to the unification of humanity and the creation of a World Government. Realists categorically reject this, seeing it as an assault on the freedom and independence of states."
I first read this as an expression of Dugin's thought, but I couldn't reconcile it with what I understand his philosophy to mean. Now I understand that it wasn't written by Dugin and couldn't have been written by him or any other Russian.
When Russians write about America – and Trump's America in particular – it is not possible to do so without projecting their own understanding of Russia onto this geopolitical entity, which inherited the mantle of Great Game antagonist from the British Empire that preceded it. Therefore, I don't think that this statement holds if Dugin, the foremost philosopher of our times, is also to be a standard bearer for geopolitical realism.
In my opinion, which is informed by Dugin's philosophy, realists don't consider sovereignty to be absolute or "relative" (subordinate to international authority) but precisely relational; that is to say, a sovereign can only know himself through relationship with another sovereign. This is why Russia and the USA (historically Britain) need each other, although the latter entity is in principle replaceable (perhaps with China or even India).
My second issue with this piece follows from the first. Yes, MAGA is not about spreading liberal democracy worldwide, and not about Atlanticism, but specifically about the United States as a nation-state. However, this statement reveals a significant problem in the sense that the USA can never be a mere nation state, since there is no nation (in Russian, narod) around which it might coalesce.
Throughout its many incarnations (Tsarist Empire, Soviet Union and now Federation), Russia has shown itself to be capable of transcending the nation state model to articulate the model of civilisational state. Perhaps only China can claim a similar success in bringing together multiple peoples into a coherent civilisational space. While Russianness (russkost') and the Russian language might be the glue that holds this civilisational state together, the state cannot be reduced to it. Rather, it is something like rossiyscost' that now attempts to fill the void left by the departure of Soviet ideology. As they say, scratch a Russian to reveal a Tartar, but there are other peoples that also might be revealed by such scratching. The question is, can they continue to get along with each other?
I would be very interested to hear what the author thinks might happen if MAGA successfully reduces the USA to a nation state. Ultimately, I don't think this will be possible since there is no "white nation" to which such a reduction might refer. Britain and its bastard child the USA have been remarkably successful as buccaneering seafaring empires, but the nearest thing they ever came to a civilising discourse was Rudyard Kipling. Russia, on the other hand, or China…
I tend to think that the future, if there is one, will belong to the civilisational states. Nation states now feel like an anachronism, which, at best, will tend to be subsumed into a larger civilisational space like the one which, for all its multiple faults, the EU did set out to create. Whereas those unsinkable aircraft carriers Russia and China currently appear to have the wind in their sails.
Trump is the epitome of a "Narcissist" and "Grandiose Delusionary". NO POTUS in history has ever held such extreme traits of SELF-Deception. (For that one thing, he IS the greatest in history.) Sadly, Trump is a Chump of the EvanZionists, who say that they are "Christians" but, they are only, using Trump to reach their power-hungry lusts. Whether it is anti-Christ, pro-war, theft, lies, or VERY INSECURE in who Christ Jesus is, they stoop to carnal means to demand their way, even though "LOVE does NOT demand its way." Therefore, they deny and blaspheme The Prince of Peace! They deny Christ Jesus and HIS Kingdom-Church, ALONE! ALONE! ALONE!
Not too convinced that the ice is breaking or that the thaw has begun. I may be wrong but it feels like Trump is more keen on shattering the foundations on which the Democrats and the oligarchy behind them have built their power than in engaging in any kind of revolution that could undermine America's global hegemony.
Yes, the hegemony has been dealt a blow and may not be able to afford as much as it could in its heyday but it feels like in recognition of that, Trump just sort of wants a metaphorical ceasefire that would allow them to regroup and restart where they left off with renewed vigour.
Just to prove the point, he ordered the bombing of Houthis!
This is only words. Just look at what happened in Gaza yesterday.
We gave Trumpism a chance. Mr Dugin should open his eyes now.
Realists may need to pop to top level for immediate mode operations. This the rocky road with birds, ravens(?), eating the seed. The discernment on the remaining imbalance after the deep metanoia from the monastery retreat is embedded. No time to trench it out. The field service light was lit with multiple skyscraper solutions possible.
The photo with McCain and the murder of color revolution crows was clearly fully deconstructed. The color splotches matched to field operations. Who thought it was imperative you could generate a lift with satisficing mapping? I guess it was him, Goebbels best hand in this specific field. I doubt there was any malice in the specification, except for disinformation on retreat plans.
Consider Putin’s relationship with Wagner prior to the extended stay at the priory? The ruler of this world teases at him. It was this improper, deformed desire for greater power that closed the paths that Wagner may have allowed. Our Mother is watching.
So, the business is business. I could not tell you which one in the McCain photo was that colonel. But the bargaining is open. Don’t let them close early. The brats who want their bat dung graft payments will want that “peace dividend.” Don’t let it close early and get your major needs resolved.