Active Measures' Kit Klarenberg predicts a re-orientation of American imperialism away from unwinnable conflicts on the other side of the globe in favor of a new Monroe Doctrine.
It would be nice if we pumped useful infrastructure spending into Latin America without the sermonizing, political interference and no strings attached. Probably not going to happen.
Yes, narratives simplify and no observer is neutral whatever they may believe or want you to believe. But what was the value of Europe when you think what happened to Yugoslavia? Or when you think about the disgraceful branding of a handful of deficit nations as PIIGS? Where was solidarity? Rhetoric is cheap. Assuming responsibility as a group for every member’s greater good is the real test and when it came the prosperous failed it without apology.
Not much evidence of thought from those quarters. Indeed when you think of the heights a von der Leyen can scale in Yurruo (with discreet transatlantic backing) the project is clearly a device to annihilate political acumen across the entire region. The very word is like a loose wrench in the brain, paralysing rather than energising the intelligence of those who parrot it (and have been since 1945).
I still think that we had politicians and diplomats in Europe. It is this latest neoliberal emptiness that has destroyed any semblance of political reasoning.
The neoliberal emptiness (? wasteland) stretches back in the UK to 1979. If not earlier. We modified our currency in the early ‘70s for the convenience of countries that had traded with us for centuries in the old money (pounds, shillings and pennies) and to oblige the new human technocratic species of computer nerds whose machines were not clever enough at the time to cope with all the extra calculations necessitated by a non-decimal currency, We immediately fell into staggering levels of inflation which could not be reined in for the rest of the 1970s and which very much paved the way for Mrs Thatcher’s enthronement in 1979.
The essential motives behind ‘Europeanisation’ following WW2 were less to advantage the countries of Europe than the ‘victor’ of that war, the USA, it was vassalisation, frankly. A civil cognate for the military matrix of NATO.
‘Europe’ therefore, whatever proponents may say, is not sovereign (nor democratic) in the way the states that composed it (with some obvious exceptions) were sovereign and democratic. Worse, it had to pretend to high ideals when in fact it was the product of countless grubby compromises. Complaining about this is pointless yet I can only regret that an imposture of this scale has so few articulate critics.
I would ask a different question — what do we actually mean when we speak of Europe. Is it Europe of Plato or Aristotle, is it Europe of St Augustine or St Thomas Aquinas? Is it Europe of crusades? Is it Europe of colonisers…. Capitalism….can Europe be reduced to the administrative unit we now call the EU?
God bless you man. What a great, fun title! Keep us learning how to present the news, so our friends & neighbors notice us laughing while ingesting the news of our stupid ship of fools listing so far to starboard & sinking itself.
IFF (if and only if) this will be the case…. Maybe it is a good step — to get damn Europe to start finally thinking about its own future……
Good for Europe maybe. For Latin America, however, not so much.
It would be nice if we pumped useful infrastructure spending into Latin America without the sermonizing, political interference and no strings attached. Probably not going to happen.
Yes, narratives simplify and no observer is neutral whatever they may believe or want you to believe. But what was the value of Europe when you think what happened to Yugoslavia? Or when you think about the disgraceful branding of a handful of deficit nations as PIIGS? Where was solidarity? Rhetoric is cheap. Assuming responsibility as a group for every member’s greater good is the real test and when it came the prosperous failed it without apology.
Not much evidence of thought from those quarters. Indeed when you think of the heights a von der Leyen can scale in Yurruo (with discreet transatlantic backing) the project is clearly a device to annihilate political acumen across the entire region. The very word is like a loose wrench in the brain, paralysing rather than energising the intelligence of those who parrot it (and have been since 1945).
I still think that we had politicians and diplomats in Europe. It is this latest neoliberal emptiness that has destroyed any semblance of political reasoning.
The neoliberal emptiness (? wasteland) stretches back in the UK to 1979. If not earlier. We modified our currency in the early ‘70s for the convenience of countries that had traded with us for centuries in the old money (pounds, shillings and pennies) and to oblige the new human technocratic species of computer nerds whose machines were not clever enough at the time to cope with all the extra calculations necessitated by a non-decimal currency, We immediately fell into staggering levels of inflation which could not be reined in for the rest of the 1970s and which very much paved the way for Mrs Thatcher’s enthronement in 1979.
The essential motives behind ‘Europeanisation’ following WW2 were less to advantage the countries of Europe than the ‘victor’ of that war, the USA, it was vassalisation, frankly. A civil cognate for the military matrix of NATO.
‘Europe’ therefore, whatever proponents may say, is not sovereign (nor democratic) in the way the states that composed it (with some obvious exceptions) were sovereign and democratic. Worse, it had to pretend to high ideals when in fact it was the product of countless grubby compromises. Complaining about this is pointless yet I can only regret that an imposture of this scale has so few articulate critics.
Here is an interesting take on the role of Europe in the 1960s. What I am trying to say, every narrative simplify matters 😎 https://youtu.be/uA8LIZ_YR04?feature=shared
I would ask a different question — what do we actually mean when we speak of Europe. Is it Europe of Plato or Aristotle, is it Europe of St Augustine or St Thomas Aquinas? Is it Europe of crusades? Is it Europe of colonisers…. Capitalism….can Europe be reduced to the administrative unit we now call the EU?
God bless you man. What a great, fun title! Keep us learning how to present the news, so our friends & neighbors notice us laughing while ingesting the news of our stupid ship of fools listing so far to starboard & sinking itself.
Nice video! I dropped an article who delves with the Monroe Doctrine, just in case: https://thegeopoliticalnavigator.substack.com/p/make-monroe-doctrine-great-again
Europe isn't part of America, not our circus, not our monkeys.
God i hope u guys stay away from asia! We.re happy here and dont want the instability