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No, I no longer have access to any US intel strategy, knowledge, or staff, and have not for a number of years. I’m stuck with the publicly available information largely through think tanks just like the rest of you – if you even go that far.
The difference is that I still think in those terms – and you very likely don’t. The world is dark and full of terrors so to speak. And peace of mind under pax americana is a comforting illusion just like our parents provided for us so we could sleep in the dark at night.
And I still remain amazed that the vast majority of the public cannot grasp rational incentives of anyone beyond the family and friends, or at best employees and small business. Just as women tend to scale the morals of the family into failure, men tend to scale political morals into failure.
The world works by incentives within the constraints produced by geography, demographics, institutions, resources, economies, and state of development limited by each.
If you’re western you live in an illusion that we are normal. We are not. We are the weirdest least tribal least racist most high trust people in the world. And the rest of the world “Can’t Do Western”. It requires too much genetic advantage, too much genetic ability, too much institutional indoctrination and reinforcement, and too much trust and trustworthiness that others (except for japanese and koreans) can’t do and don’t want to even if they could..

Cheers