Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Dugin’s Book Says:

    DUGIN’S BOOK SAYS: The book declares that “the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians” has not ended and Russia remains “the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution”. The Eurasian Empire will be constructed “on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us.“[9] Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia’s gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[9] The book states that “the maximum task [of the future] is the ‘Finlandization’ of all of Europe”.[9] In Europe: Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term “Moscow–Berlin axis”.[9] France should be encouraged to form a “Franco–German bloc” with Germany. Both countries have a “firm anti-Atlanticist tradition”.[9] The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.[9] Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be “donated to Murmansk Oblast”.[9] Estonia should be given to Germany’s sphere of influence.[9] Latvia and Lithuania should be given a “special status” in the Eurasian-Russian sphere.[9] Poland should be granted a “special status” in the Eurasian sphere.[9] Romania, Macedonia, “Serbian Bosnia” and Greece – “Orthodox collectivist East” – will unite with “Moscow the Third Rome” and reject the “rational-individualistic West”.[9] Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible.[9] In the Middle East and Central Asia: The book stresses the “continental Russian–Islamic alliance” which lies “at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy”. The alliance is based on the “traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization”. Iran is a key ally. The book uses the term “Moscow–Tehran axis”.[9] Armenia has a special role: It will serve as a “strategic base,” and it is necessary to create “the [subsidiary] axis Moscow-Erevan-Teheran”. Armenians “are an Aryan people … [like] the Iranians and the Kurds”.[9] Azerbaijan could be “split up” or given to Iran.[9] Georgia should be dismembered. Abkhazia and “United Ossetia” (which includes Georgia’s South Ossetia) will be incorporated into Russia. Georgia’s independent policies are unacceptable.[9] Russia needs to create “geopolitical shocks” within Turkey. These can be achieved by employing Kurds, Armenians and other minorities.[9] The book regards the Caucasus as a Russian territory, including “the eastern and northern shores of the Caspian (the territories of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)” and Central Asia (mentioning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan).[9] In Asia: China, which represents a danger to Russia, “must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled”. Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.[1] Russia should offer China help “in a southern direction – Indochina (except Vietnam), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia” as geopolitical compensation.[9] Russia should manipulate Japanese politics by offering the Kuril Islands to Japan and provoking anti-Americanism.[9] Mongolia should be absorbed into Eurasia-Russia.[9] The book emphasizes that Russia must spread Anti-Americanism everywhere: “the main ‘scapegoat’ will be precisely the U.S.” In the United States: Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9] The Eurasian Project could be expanded to South and Central America.[9]

  • Progressivism Is a Religion, and Truth Blasphemy

    by Vivek Na Liberals use this kind of rhetoric – “no right thinking individual would say that”. Or “That doesn’t sound right” – meaning you’re committing blasphemy according to their constructed sense of right and wrong, ergo, you’re a heretic who should be metaphorically exiled or pilloried. –Curt:– You know, we ought to use that more often: “So you mean it’s blasphemous in your religion, right?”

  • Progressivism Is a Religion, and Truth Blasphemy

    by Vivek Na Liberals use this kind of rhetoric – “no right thinking individual would say that”. Or “That doesn’t sound right” – meaning you’re committing blasphemy according to their constructed sense of right and wrong, ergo, you’re a heretic who should be metaphorically exiled or pilloried. –Curt:– You know, we ought to use that more often: “So you mean it’s blasphemous in your religion, right?”

  • New Right = Scientific Right

    It drives the Left nuts that the New Right owns the scientific discourse, and that it’s now clear progressivisms, in marxist pseudoscientific, feminist pseudoscientific, and postmodern pseudo-rational forms, are just another Religion. They can’t deal with the fact that New Right = Scientific Right.

  • New Right = Scientific Right

    It drives the Left nuts that the New Right owns the scientific discourse, and that it’s now clear progressivisms, in marxist pseudoscientific, feminist pseudoscientific, and postmodern pseudo-rational forms, are just another Religion. They can’t deal with the fact that New Right = Scientific Right.

  • A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF TRUMP’S GRAND STRATEGY FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO: #Trump @r

    A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF TRUMP’S GRAND STRATEGY FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE
    https://propertarianism.com/2018/06/10/trumps-grand-strategy-for-ordinary-people/ TO: #Trump @realDonaldTrump @POTUS


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 15:22:15 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1005832520708050947

  • Trump’s Grand Strategy – For Ordinary People

    —-”Is there a strategic reason Trump has alienated our traditional trading partners (Europe, Canada, Mexico) while simultaneously saying Russia should be allowed back into the G7 making it the G8?”—-

    OF COURSE.In Trump’s Own Words: “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing,” Trump said. “And that ends.” “The European Union is brutal to the United States and they know it,” Trump said, adding that other leaders acknowledge as much in private. “It’s like the gig is up,” he said. “They can’t believe they got away with it.” He said the size of the U.S. economy means other nations can’t win a trade war. “We win that war a thousand times out of a thousand.” EXPLANATION Keep in mind that all democratic countries have voters to appeal to so they must at least make a visible attempt at resisting changes that would eliminate trade, economic, and military privileges. So these public disputes are necessary for the service of voters even if european politicians understand that ‘the gig is up’. 1) We spent decades and vast amounts of money helping Europe recover from their civil war. But they kept on parasitically extracting from us. We have absurd trade deficits while American workers suffer from it. But when we started this battle we had a much greater share of the world income and its economy. 2) We spent a long time and vast amounts of money preventing the suicidal ideology that was communism, then socialism, and currently postmodernism, and now, in addition, Islamism. And slowly the world learned. And those that didn’t still suffer (Venezuela), and those that changed prosper (china). But when we started this battle we had a much greater share of the world income and its economy. 3) Europe virtue signals against us all the time, but when there are problems no one but Italy can supply even two planes, and when there is military action only the UK can contribute whatsoever. So we spend 4% of our (massive) GDP and they spend 1% (the same as Switzerland), and play games with us (especially France – who has always been our enemy ). Russia is a paper tiger on all but narrow paths into Moscow, and her declining nuclear inventory is all that makes her other than a third world country – she has the same sized economy as Texas and Italy. 4) Americans are sold virtue signals while the middle class has been hollowed out and the manufacturing has been hollowed out. Originally we hollowed out manufacturing in order to prevent the democratic party and unions working together to implement socialism here in the states and drag us down the same path as other socialist countries. Now we are struggling to return the money, workload, technology, and capital investment to the country. 6) Trump’s tax reform was the most important first step. His trade policy the second, And the forcible redistribution of world military costs to europeans the third. And as a consequence, the end of european virtue signaling that encourages Americas, the American academy, and the American bureaucracy, to follow the suicidal route that european countries have, but which now must abandon their postwar experiments and pay their own way independent of American subsidies. 7) The reason this is important is that we are very shortly going to go through a catastrophic demographic and economic shock that will mean the only competitive advantage between nations is the demographic distribution of the people. In other words, *every point of IQ* is the only difference in competitive ability. And this is the current threat to America, because we have already lost one point in the past twenty years, and almost the second. When five points makes the difference between wealth and relative stagnation, we cannot afford to lose demographically (immigration) or in overpopulation, or in export of wage-level jobs. TRUMP, RUSSIA, AND THE RESTORATION OF THE BALANCE OF POWERS 8) By including Russia he adds the only country with any military capacity to the discourse, and adds an other voice against one-world-government. Putin, The Slavic Countries, Italy, and now Russia, are trying to contain the french-german social democratic suicide of Europe so that it does not spread. 9) By weakening, conspiring against the people of, and invading Ukraine, Russia threw away her potential to restore the economic and population structure of the soviet union, which was necessary for Russia to remain a world power. The clock ticks. And it takes 350M to 500M people in a block to finance a world power status. 10) The sanctions do their work, and as of this year Putin has redirected expenditures from the military to the economy – which is what is necessary for Russia to unite with german against the anglos, and allow the Intermarium (West Slavics: Poland, Ukraine, Slovikia, Romania…) to evolve into a balance of powers between anglo, latin, germanic, west slavic, and east slavic (Russian ) lands – restoring ‘the States of Europe’ again. And thereby Restoring Western Civilization. 11) By forcing Europe to rearm, and eliminating ‘parasitism’ upon the United States, Trump is ending the redistribution of American wealth to post-war European states necessary for their restoration, and ending subsidy to developing nations that were a risk of ‘going communist’. Trump is ending the Marxist, Bolshevik, Trotskyist, Democratic Socialist Globalist program, which sought to create a single world government (and a communist one) out of the united nations, and instead is restoring Europe, and the international balance of powers that has been successful throughout modern history. 12) As any strategist will tell you, you never state your strategy. You merely pursue all options by which to bring it about. Simple people plan. Sophisticated people negotiate and seize every available opportunity. Trump knows exactly what he is doing.And all he has to do to achieve it is *demand fair deals*.That alone will restore the balance of powers.  And end the conflict of civilizations.

  • Trump’s Grand Strategy – For Ordinary People

    —-”Is there a strategic reason Trump has alienated our traditional trading partners (Europe, Canada, Mexico) while simultaneously saying Russia should be allowed back into the G7 making it the G8?”—-

    OF COURSE.In Trump’s Own Words: “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing,” Trump said. “And that ends.” “The European Union is brutal to the United States and they know it,” Trump said, adding that other leaders acknowledge as much in private. “It’s like the gig is up,” he said. “They can’t believe they got away with it.” He said the size of the U.S. economy means other nations can’t win a trade war. “We win that war a thousand times out of a thousand.” EXPLANATION Keep in mind that all democratic countries have voters to appeal to so they must at least make a visible attempt at resisting changes that would eliminate trade, economic, and military privileges. So these public disputes are necessary for the service of voters even if european politicians understand that ‘the gig is up’. 1) We spent decades and vast amounts of money helping Europe recover from their civil war. But they kept on parasitically extracting from us. We have absurd trade deficits while American workers suffer from it. But when we started this battle we had a much greater share of the world income and its economy. 2) We spent a long time and vast amounts of money preventing the suicidal ideology that was communism, then socialism, and currently postmodernism, and now, in addition, Islamism. And slowly the world learned. And those that didn’t still suffer (Venezuela), and those that changed prosper (china). But when we started this battle we had a much greater share of the world income and its economy. 3) Europe virtue signals against us all the time, but when there are problems no one but Italy can supply even two planes, and when there is military action only the UK can contribute whatsoever. So we spend 4% of our (massive) GDP and they spend 1% (the same as Switzerland), and play games with us (especially France – who has always been our enemy ). Russia is a paper tiger on all but narrow paths into Moscow, and her declining nuclear inventory is all that makes her other than a third world country – she has the same sized economy as Texas and Italy. 4) Americans are sold virtue signals while the middle class has been hollowed out and the manufacturing has been hollowed out. Originally we hollowed out manufacturing in order to prevent the democratic party and unions working together to implement socialism here in the states and drag us down the same path as other socialist countries. Now we are struggling to return the money, workload, technology, and capital investment to the country. 6) Trump’s tax reform was the most important first step. His trade policy the second, And the forcible redistribution of world military costs to europeans the third. And as a consequence, the end of european virtue signaling that encourages Americas, the American academy, and the American bureaucracy, to follow the suicidal route that european countries have, but which now must abandon their postwar experiments and pay their own way independent of American subsidies. 7) The reason this is important is that we are very shortly going to go through a catastrophic demographic and economic shock that will mean the only competitive advantage between nations is the demographic distribution of the people. In other words, *every point of IQ* is the only difference in competitive ability. And this is the current threat to America, because we have already lost one point in the past twenty years, and almost the second. When five points makes the difference between wealth and relative stagnation, we cannot afford to lose demographically (immigration) or in overpopulation, or in export of wage-level jobs. TRUMP, RUSSIA, AND THE RESTORATION OF THE BALANCE OF POWERS 8) By including Russia he adds the only country with any military capacity to the discourse, and adds an other voice against one-world-government. Putin, The Slavic Countries, Italy, and now Russia, are trying to contain the french-german social democratic suicide of Europe so that it does not spread. 9) By weakening, conspiring against the people of, and invading Ukraine, Russia threw away her potential to restore the economic and population structure of the soviet union, which was necessary for Russia to remain a world power. The clock ticks. And it takes 350M to 500M people in a block to finance a world power status. 10) The sanctions do their work, and as of this year Putin has redirected expenditures from the military to the economy – which is what is necessary for Russia to unite with german against the anglos, and allow the Intermarium (West Slavics: Poland, Ukraine, Slovikia, Romania…) to evolve into a balance of powers between anglo, latin, germanic, west slavic, and east slavic (Russian ) lands – restoring ‘the States of Europe’ again. And thereby Restoring Western Civilization. 11) By forcing Europe to rearm, and eliminating ‘parasitism’ upon the United States, Trump is ending the redistribution of American wealth to post-war European states necessary for their restoration, and ending subsidy to developing nations that were a risk of ‘going communist’. Trump is ending the Marxist, Bolshevik, Trotskyist, Democratic Socialist Globalist program, which sought to create a single world government (and a communist one) out of the united nations, and instead is restoring Europe, and the international balance of powers that has been successful throughout modern history. 12) As any strategist will tell you, you never state your strategy. You merely pursue all options by which to bring it about. Simple people plan. Sophisticated people negotiate and seize every available opportunity. Trump knows exactly what he is doing.And all he has to do to achieve it is *demand fair deals*.That alone will restore the balance of powers.  And end the conflict of civilizations.

  • If you posture, trump will humiliate you for it. Trump takes posturing off the t

    If you posture, trump will humiliate you for it. Trump takes posturing off the table. He is a master of it. And his response is always the same: “lets just do a fair deal”. This strategy is almost impossible to defeat.

    (I know because I do the same damned thing)


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 13:23:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1005802759935930368

  • NEW RIGHT = SCIENTIFIC RIGHT It drives the Left nuts that the New Right owns the

    NEW RIGHT = SCIENTIFIC RIGHT

    It drives the Left nuts that the New Right owns the scientific discourse, and that it’s now clear progressivisms, in marxist pseudoscientific, feminist pseudoscientific, and postmodern pseudo-rational forms, are just another Religion.

    They can’t deal with the fact that New Right = Scientific Right.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 11:46:00 UTC