And that’s a victory as great as there is possible on earth. The US might gradually grows satisfied with this and redistribute its resources to benefit the interior an let the rest of the world catch up a bit.Because we have a lot of catching up to do. Americans are now used to seeing the Europeans as advance, but this is only under the umbrella of the US military an cultural hegemony. Austria is an exception, I think, as it nows Empire, and knows how to profit of the US without relinquishing any of its own sovereignty. It for example produces the service weapons to the American police forces (and a lot of gangsters and home owners) and the printing press for its dollars. Also, as I never tire of mentioning, the firetrucks. But mostly what is impressive is how they have internally resisted capitalism as a dogma somewhat. I say somewhat, it is only degrees - I mean that there are remnants of older, more artistic and patient standards alive there, so that from 7 to 9 in the morning you’ll wake up with witty talks about psychoanalysis an the concept of ethics followed by a piece of Beethoven, which feels very different with the coffee an in the car.
Always. But Putin answers only to the extreme radicals who want to wipe the US off the map, he softens them, he says: “look we can pretty much do what we want, they’e only words an we have the internet.” SIATD mentioned how Russia Today has transformed from a pro Russian anti American site to a site that wants to inspire confidence that it down with humanity.
Putin truly seems to have taken the ones who put hi in power by complete surprise. He is ruthless in a way no American president could be toward the rest of his government. I thin FDR was the last US president who ha as much control over his the nation as Putin has over Russia now - and if we look a it in these historical terms Russia has … how shall I put it… softened up somewhat.
In a sense Russia is already more powerful than the US; it has more freedom, it is on the rise, it has surprise the world and is able to laugh an be candid in interviews. It says “we do it our way” and “the US is acting weak an irrational and not in accordance with their nature”. Putin bears no grudge, he sings english songs on stage, he knows vey well, it seems, and this is in accordance with his St Petersburgian upbringing, that debt Russia owes in cultural minerals to the western nations.
I can recommend Kissinger’s book World Order, by the way. It seems the man has finally been good for something. He has learned, he confesses. But he has always been an opponent to global hegemony of any type of politics - that is why he tried to destroy International Socialism. He thought it might take hold (work), and reduces us to less than, I suppose he figured, we can be. America is framed as the inheritor of the British role of independent arbiter over the internal European power struggle, but in the sense of a global order - but conditions are placed on this arbitership, namely non interference to a degree - Unilateral (up until recently at least significantly Swiss-oriented) Globalism is compared to the heyday of Islam, on which quite an impressive chapter is spent, the man certainly has a true love of politics.
Yankee power is in its tales… Now as to what is good, there ‘should’ (must, will) be a lot of freedom - that is the strength of the open ranges. I want a morality of the open ranges.
“I can see that painted wagon
smell the tail of the dragon!”
