Curt Doolittle

Form: Mini Essay

  • Why Do You Think The West Should “rediscover” Russia?

    Russians (and Putin) were restoring their influence and status in the world. Prior to 2013, Putin was the most respected politician in the world, an idol of the american right, and on the cover of magazines as a hero.

    The problem was, that when the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution occurred, and protests spread to St Petersburg and Moscow, clamping down at home was warranted – Russia doesn’t need another period of chaos.

    However, instead of calling world leaders and saying:

    “This puts our only warm water port, and our military production facilities in the Donbas out of our domain of control, and is strategically intolerable, so we are going to restore Crimea to Russian sovereignty, and pull our industrial assets out of the Don Basin, and compensate Ukraine with a 20% discount on gas for the next 50 years, and we hope you and the international community will understand our actions as undesirable but necessary in order to maintain the postwar balance of powers”.

    What did we get instead? Putin blinked. Made up stories about little green men, flooded social media with propaganda, caused a civil war that killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands, and returned Russia to the status of international pariah. When everyone complained, he threatened everyone including even Sweden with military action.

    In return the west imposed moderate sanctions to demonstrate that Russia is a paper tiger, because 50% of the economy is dependent upon export of fungible petroleum assets and that the government would go bankrupt, and the people starve.

    The only reason they didn’t cut Russia out of the international banking and clearance system was that the immediate financial and economic collapse would have hurt ordinary russians rather than the political elite.

    I have been on-message since the very beginning (I was living in Kiev at the time, and still list Kiev as my residence). That message is simple: russians are almost always right. So why lie? It is russian low trust and preservation of asiatic attitudes toward deception that cause these problems.

    As far as I know, the great problem of the world is the ending of immigration into the west, and then combining german technology and institutions, with russian labor and resources. It is that and only that combination in the future that can hold chinese world conquest at bay.

    America is dead via immigration that could not be achieved by leftist insurgency, the vote, or propaganda. We will have a civil war in the united states by 2025.

    The world needs a strong russia. But what makes russians incompatible with estern civilization ins one thing:

    “If a person tells a lie, who is at fault, the person who lies or the person who believes the lie?”

    In the west, universally, we say the liar. Far too many russians say the person who believes the lie.

    This is what separates high trust western ethics from low trust russian ethics.

    So the message to Russian State, Russian People, and Putin is: When you’re right, and in the right, don’t lie.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-the-West-should-rediscover-Russia

  • Why Do You Think The West Should “rediscover” Russia?

    Russians (and Putin) were restoring their influence and status in the world. Prior to 2013, Putin was the most respected politician in the world, an idol of the american right, and on the cover of magazines as a hero.

    The problem was, that when the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution occurred, and protests spread to St Petersburg and Moscow, clamping down at home was warranted – Russia doesn’t need another period of chaos.

    However, instead of calling world leaders and saying:

    “This puts our only warm water port, and our military production facilities in the Donbas out of our domain of control, and is strategically intolerable, so we are going to restore Crimea to Russian sovereignty, and pull our industrial assets out of the Don Basin, and compensate Ukraine with a 20% discount on gas for the next 50 years, and we hope you and the international community will understand our actions as undesirable but necessary in order to maintain the postwar balance of powers”.

    What did we get instead? Putin blinked. Made up stories about little green men, flooded social media with propaganda, caused a civil war that killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands, and returned Russia to the status of international pariah. When everyone complained, he threatened everyone including even Sweden with military action.

    In return the west imposed moderate sanctions to demonstrate that Russia is a paper tiger, because 50% of the economy is dependent upon export of fungible petroleum assets and that the government would go bankrupt, and the people starve.

    The only reason they didn’t cut Russia out of the international banking and clearance system was that the immediate financial and economic collapse would have hurt ordinary russians rather than the political elite.

    I have been on-message since the very beginning (I was living in Kiev at the time, and still list Kiev as my residence). That message is simple: russians are almost always right. So why lie? It is russian low trust and preservation of asiatic attitudes toward deception that cause these problems.

    As far as I know, the great problem of the world is the ending of immigration into the west, and then combining german technology and institutions, with russian labor and resources. It is that and only that combination in the future that can hold chinese world conquest at bay.

    America is dead via immigration that could not be achieved by leftist insurgency, the vote, or propaganda. We will have a civil war in the united states by 2025.

    The world needs a strong russia. But what makes russians incompatible with estern civilization ins one thing:

    “If a person tells a lie, who is at fault, the person who lies or the person who believes the lie?”

    In the west, universally, we say the liar. Far too many russians say the person who believes the lie.

    This is what separates high trust western ethics from low trust russian ethics.

    So the message to Russian State, Russian People, and Putin is: When you’re right, and in the right, don’t lie.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-think-the-West-should-rediscover-Russia

  • Trump Negotiates From The Presumption Of Ignorance And Presumption Of The Opponent’s Malfeasance. He Manufactures Opportunity To

    (I know, because I do the same thing) Kim wants legitimacy before his people. Trump wants an excuse to take severe action. The military can use that action to counter china. There are hundreds of issues at play here. I have been in the business of negotiating business deals for most of my life – usually M&A in the low range. And trump’s method of negotiation is very transparent to me. You just let everyone play their hand, and say anything that encourages people to take further exposure, then wait for opportunity to make use of that information, while suggesting that you’ll accept possibilities different from your central objective. This makes it extremely hard for the opposition to rally and counter you, and ensures you have the maximum information at your disposal. This works when many people are fighting for your business, money, or approval. And it means you do not have to pay them off or make a lot of puts in order to get the best deal. Moreover by giving them hope, and then drawing it out or letting them fail, they are weakened with their constituencies. Most presidents and politicians do this under pretense. He just does it openly. Because the worst that happens is he gets to leave the white house which is a bit like slumming for him. Meanwhile his base is more dedicated than any president in modern history. He governs as does a king rather than the postmodern priesthood that’s been common since Johnson. And I am still not sure it’s a bad thing.

  • Trump Negotiates From The Presumption Of Ignorance And Presumption Of The Opponent’s Malfeasance. He Manufactures Opportunity To

    (I know, because I do the same thing) Kim wants legitimacy before his people. Trump wants an excuse to take severe action. The military can use that action to counter china. There are hundreds of issues at play here. I have been in the business of negotiating business deals for most of my life – usually M&A in the low range. And trump’s method of negotiation is very transparent to me. You just let everyone play their hand, and say anything that encourages people to take further exposure, then wait for opportunity to make use of that information, while suggesting that you’ll accept possibilities different from your central objective. This makes it extremely hard for the opposition to rally and counter you, and ensures you have the maximum information at your disposal. This works when many people are fighting for your business, money, or approval. And it means you do not have to pay them off or make a lot of puts in order to get the best deal. Moreover by giving them hope, and then drawing it out or letting them fail, they are weakened with their constituencies. Most presidents and politicians do this under pretense. He just does it openly. Because the worst that happens is he gets to leave the white house which is a bit like slumming for him. Meanwhile his base is more dedicated than any president in modern history. He governs as does a king rather than the postmodern priesthood that’s been common since Johnson. And I am still not sure it’s a bad thing.

  • The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom a

    The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree to operate democratically and resolve conflicts in commerce and war via the federal government, similarly to how the Church formed a weak government over the various states of Europe. The states, regions, and ‘nine’ super-regions, are genetically(yes), demographically, culturally, and legally different. They are also of vastly different sizes, just as the states of europe(germanic), and eastern europe(slavic) are different sizes. And while each state gains proportional representation in the house, equal representation in the senate, it is the majority of the STATES that determine the presidency – not one’s vote. This was designed so that big (immigrant) states could not virtually enslave the smaller and more homogenous states. When you vote, you vote for your state, not for the country, because you are just as much an enemy as a friend of people in other parts of the country. And this is how it was set. If there is any question whatsoever of as SINGLE democracy, then we do not live in separate states each satisfying the want and needs of the groups that inhabit them, then we are a tyrannical empire that oppresses those states. The underlying problem is why we joined vastly different civilizations in 1789 did not separate after the war of 1812 when the north wanted to secede, did not separate in 1865, when the south wanted to secede, and do not separate today when it appears that at least five, but ast many as ten different nations, consisting of subsets of our states, want to seceded. The only problem heretofore has been external military pressure. Without the european aggression of the pre-war period, or the opportunity to ‘steal’ the western 3/4 of the continent after the Louisiana Purchase, or defend ourselves from postwar communism, (and it looks like communism’s follow-on: islamism is coming to an end) then there is no reason to remain united whatsoever, when the consequence is constant internecine warfare slowly turning into open civil war. Our government is an empire that has outlived its usefulness as holding the world system of finance and trade together after the collapse of european colonialism. It’s time to return to the norm of western civilization: small states that cater to the wants and needs of their people – not to the will of the majority who, by all measures, will always be those least able, least productive, least knowledgeable, and demonstrably least moral.

  • united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree

    https://www.quora.com/The-results-of-the-2016-General-Election-is-proof-the-United-States-isnt-a-democracy-its-a-plutocractic-oligarchy-why-doesnt-it-end-its-hypocritical-crusade-for-democracy-and-focus-on-improving-international/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=b581fd1c&srid=u4QvThe united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree to operate democratically and resolve conflicts in commerce and war via the federal government, similarly to how the Church formed a weak government over the various states of Europe.

    The states, regions, and ‘nine’ super-regions, are genetically(yes), demographically, culturally, and legally different.

    They are also of vastly different sizes, just as the states of europe(germanic), and eastern europe(slavic) are different sizes.

    And while each state gains proportional representation in the house, equal representation in the senate, it is the majority of the STATES that determine the presidency – not one’s vote.

    This was designed so that big (immigrant) states could not virtually enslave the smaller and more homogenous states.

    When you vote, you vote for your state, not for the country, because you are just as much an enemy as a friend of people in other parts of the country. And this is how it was set.

    If there is any question whatsoever of as SINGLE democracy, then we do not live in separate states each satisfying the want and needs of the groups that inhabit them, then we are a tyrannical empire that oppresses those states.

    The underlying problem is why we joined vastly different civilizations in 1789 did not separate after the war of 1812 when the north wanted to secede, did not separate in 1865, when the south wanted to secede, and do not separate today when it appears that at least five, but ast many as ten different nations, consisting of subsets of our states, want to seceded.

    The only problem heretofore has been external military pressure. Without the european aggression of the pre-war period, or the opportunity to ‘steal’ the western 3/4 of the continent after the Louisiana Purchase, or defend ourselves from postwar communism, (and it looks like communism’s follow-on: islamism is coming to an end) then there is no reason to remain united whatsoever, when the consequence is constant internecine warfare slowly turning into open civil war.

    Our government is an empire that has outlived its usefulness as holding the world system of finance and trade together after the collapse of european colonialism.

    It’s time to return to the norm of western civilization: small states that cater to the wants and needs of their people – not to the will of the majority who, by all measures, will always be those least able, least productive, least knowledgeable, and demonstrably least moral.Updated Mar 15, 2018, 12:10 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-15 12:10:00 UTC

  • The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom a

    The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree to operate democratically and resolve conflicts in commerce and war via the federal government, similarly to how the Church formed a weak government over the various states of Europe. The states, regions, and ‘nine’ super-regions, are genetically(yes), demographically, culturally, and legally different. They are also of vastly different sizes, just as the states of europe(germanic), and eastern europe(slavic) are different sizes. And while each state gains proportional representation in the house, equal representation in the senate, it is the majority of the STATES that determine the presidency – not one’s vote. This was designed so that big (immigrant) states could not virtually enslave the smaller and more homogenous states. When you vote, you vote for your state, not for the country, because you are just as much an enemy as a friend of people in other parts of the country. And this is how it was set. If there is any question whatsoever of as SINGLE democracy, then we do not live in separate states each satisfying the want and needs of the groups that inhabit them, then we are a tyrannical empire that oppresses those states. The underlying problem is why we joined vastly different civilizations in 1789 did not separate after the war of 1812 when the north wanted to secede, did not separate in 1865, when the south wanted to secede, and do not separate today when it appears that at least five, but ast many as ten different nations, consisting of subsets of our states, want to seceded. The only problem heretofore has been external military pressure. Without the european aggression of the pre-war period, or the opportunity to ‘steal’ the western 3/4 of the continent after the Louisiana Purchase, or defend ourselves from postwar communism, (and it looks like communism’s follow-on: islamism is coming to an end) then there is no reason to remain united whatsoever, when the consequence is constant internecine warfare slowly turning into open civil war. Our government is an empire that has outlived its usefulness as holding the world system of finance and trade together after the collapse of european colonialism. It’s time to return to the norm of western civilization: small states that cater to the wants and needs of their people – not to the will of the majority who, by all measures, will always be those least able, least productive, least knowledgeable, and demonstrably least moral.

  • How Did President Trump Choke North Korea’s Economy That Forced A Meeting Between Him And Kim Jong Un To Denuclearize?

    Kim wants legitimacy before his people. Trump wants an excuse to take severe action. The military can use that action to strategically counter china. There are hundreds of issues at play here, and the strategic future changes dramatically both ways.

    I have been in the business of negotiating business deals for most of my life – usually M&A in the low range. And trump’s method of negotiation is very transparent to me. You just let everyone play their hand, and say anything that encourages people to take further exposure, then wait for opportunity to make use of that information, while suggesting that you’ll accept possibilities different from your central objective.

    This makes it extremely hard for the opposition to rally and counter you, and ensures you have the maximum information at your disposal. This works when many people are fighting for your business, money, or approval. And it means you do not have to pay them off or make a lot of puts in order to get the best deal. Moreover by giving them hope, and then drawing it out or letting them fail, they are weakened with their constituencies.

    Most presidents and politicians do this under pretense. He just does it openly. Because the worst that happens is he gets to leave the white house which is a bit like slumming for him.

    Meanwhile his base is more dedicated than any president in recent history.

    He governs as does a king rather than the postmodern priesthood that’s been common since Johnson. And I am still not sure it’s a bad thing.

    https://www.quora.com/How-did-President-Trump-choke-North-Koreas-economy-that-forced-a-meeting-between-him-and-Kim-Jong-Un-to-denuclearize

  • The Results Of The 2016 General Election, Is Proof The United States Isn’t​ A Democracy, But A Plutocratic Oligarchy. Why Doesn’t​ It End Its Hypocritical Crusade For Democracy, And Focus On Improving International Relations With China And Russia?

    The united states is not ONE democracy, but a COLLECTION OF STATES all of whom agree to operate democratically and resolve conflicts in commerce and war via the federal government, similarly to how the Church formed a weak government over the various states of Europe.

    The states, regions, and ‘nine’ super-regions, are genetically(yes), demographically, culturally, and legally different.

    They are also of vastly different sizes, just as the states of europe(germanic), and eastern europe(slavic) are different sizes.

    And while each state gains proportional representation in the house, equal representation in the senate, it is the majority of the STATES that determine the presidency – not one’s vote.

    This was designed so that big (immigrant) states could not virtually enslave the smaller and more homogenous states.

    When you vote, you vote for your state, not for the country, because you are just as much an enemy as a friend of people in other parts of the country. And this is how it was set.

    If there is any question whatsoever of as SINGLE democracy, then we do not live in separate states each satisfying the want and needs of the groups that inhabit them, then we are a tyrannical empire that oppresses those states.

    The underlying problem is why we joined vastly different civilizations in 1789 did not separate after the war of 1812 when the north wanted to secede, did not separate in 1865, when the south wanted to secede, and do not separate today when it appears that at least five, but ast many as ten different nations, consisting of subsets of our states, want to seceded.

    The only problem heretofore has been external military pressure. Without the european aggression of the pre-war period, or the opportunity to ‘steal’ the western 3/4 of the continent after the Louisiana Purchase, or defend ourselves from postwar communism, (and it looks like communism’s follow-on: islamism is coming to an end) then there is no reason to remain united whatsoever, when the consequence is constant internecine warfare slowly turning into open civil war.

    Our government is an empire that has outlived its usefulness as holding the world system of finance and trade together after the collapse of european colonialism.

    It’s time to return to the norm of western civilization: small states that cater to the wants and needs of their people – not to the will of the majority who, by all measures, will always be those least able, least productive, least knowledgeable, and demonstrably least moral.

    https://www.quora.com/The-results-of-the-2016-general-election-is-proof-the-United-States-isnt-a-democracy-but-a-plutocratic-oligarchy-Why-doesnt-it-end-its-hypocritical-crusade-for-democracy-and-focus-on-improving-international

  • How Did President Trump Choke North Korea’s Economy That Forced A Meeting Between Him And Kim Jong Un To Denuclearize?

    Kim wants legitimacy before his people. Trump wants an excuse to take severe action. The military can use that action to strategically counter china. There are hundreds of issues at play here, and the strategic future changes dramatically both ways.

    I have been in the business of negotiating business deals for most of my life – usually M&A in the low range. And trump’s method of negotiation is very transparent to me. You just let everyone play their hand, and say anything that encourages people to take further exposure, then wait for opportunity to make use of that information, while suggesting that you’ll accept possibilities different from your central objective.

    This makes it extremely hard for the opposition to rally and counter you, and ensures you have the maximum information at your disposal. This works when many people are fighting for your business, money, or approval. And it means you do not have to pay them off or make a lot of puts in order to get the best deal. Moreover by giving them hope, and then drawing it out or letting them fail, they are weakened with their constituencies.

    Most presidents and politicians do this under pretense. He just does it openly. Because the worst that happens is he gets to leave the white house which is a bit like slumming for him.

    Meanwhile his base is more dedicated than any president in recent history.

    He governs as does a king rather than the postmodern priesthood that’s been common since Johnson. And I am still not sure it’s a bad thing.

    https://www.quora.com/How-did-President-Trump-choke-North-Koreas-economy-that-forced-a-meeting-between-him-and-Kim-Jong-Un-to-denuclearize