Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

http://www.voltairenet.org/article195196.htmlThierry Meyssan

RE:Trump

I’ll be damned. Spot on. Great read.

As a minor suggestion, you IMPLY an argument that I would not.

Like Reagan, Trump operates from a common American moral intuition. He does not fear competitors, but sees them as an opportunity to demonstrate superiority. And within that context, he sees the empire as a burden we can no longer afford. He wants to dissolve that Empire because it prevents us from competing. This is counter intuitive to the bureaucrat and relatively obvious to the successful entrepreneur.

He has confidence that America can compete militarily, economically, and culturally, if freed from the burden of empire that was necessary – first of independence, second to prevent American reconquest by europeans, third to prevent the American south from political and material ownership of the westward expansion, fourth in the war of German ascension, and fifth to prevent the rise of communism, and now sixth in the islamic war against modernity. (Although I might argue that all these wars are conducted in defense of the enlightenment, and rebellions against modernity.)

And now we are in an era where American (Anglo) wealth is no longer disproportionately an advantage, and when the techniques by which war is conducted have devolved – eliminating the Peace of Westphalia, and restoring the natural order by which the state no longer has control over non state actors, and as such wars are conducted informationally, economically, culturally, by religious conversion, by immigration, by asymmetric reproduction, by raiding and wearing-down, rather than in the Westphalian model of the war of states conducted exclusively by state actors.

Trump is intuitive, and practical. He has more in common with generals and entrepreneurs than financiers and bureaucrats. And he has little in common with those of use who are primarily intellectuals and scientists – other than his guidance by evidence and an intuition evolved from evidence.

So in his world view the current war against modernity (Islam) and the current war against the manufacturer, distributor, marketer, and entrepreneur of modernity (Anglo), is now a war that all civilizations should pay for, given that they have adopted the product of the anglos (modernity).

For China(River), and Russia(steppe), Europe(forest), and Anglo(island), cultures, Islamism is an equal problem and american competition will be improved by forcing other empires (Civilizations) to bear the cost of what appears to be yet another extremely expensive war of modernity.

So in the end, I see all his actions as the normal insights, not of intellectuals, not of statists, but of generals, and of entrepreneurs. And I suspect we over-intellectualize his thoughts and actions just as we over intellectualized Reagan’s.

The entrepreneur and the military strategist do not try to apply forces of coercion so much as create opportunities to win where as little resources as possible can be applied.

The Donald Uses The Market in all things. That’s his intuition. It is the intuition of the weaker and the poorer middle classes of industries and states. And American can no longer afford to fight as if she is the strongest and wealthiest. We aren’t.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine