Paul Krugman, We are in a cold civil war and you are making the common feminine

Paul Krugman,

We are in a cold civil war and you are making the common feminine error of psychologizing it.

In this civil war, as in any civil war, the parties are willing to incur vast losses in order to prevent the success of their enemies. And you find yourself one of the enemies. Which I suggest is history repeating itself for the same reason that it has always repeated itself: the belief that the levantine empire is preferable to the nation state.

It’s that simple you know. If you cannot build and hold an east asian or western european nation state, you have no choice but to develop an indian or south american caste system or levantine tribal barbarism from which east and west have managed to insulate themselves – until the sixties.