Tzeentch

On the contrary, I am actively hypothesizing possible reasons for the things we see, while the rest of the forum cannot seem to produce anything beyon...

I wasn't suggesting as much. But only a fool would assume there isn't one.

We've already been here once before, hysteria and all. No idea why this time it would be fundamentally different. The anti-Trump trumpeteers have a ve...

Two weeks of tariffs is like a mouse fart in terms of geopolitics. No idea why people are getting overly emotional about it.

It could very well be. The main question that is on the table is whether all of this is truly the work of "madman Trump", or whether the shift in US p...

This is a bit short-sighted. Geopolitics is all about the long-term, and thus about potential. Looking at the world as it is right now and assuming it...

People probably thought the same thing about splitting the Soviet Union and Maoist China. To discount the idea completely is simply short-sighted. But...

I agree under current circumstances it seems far-fetched, but geopolitics is a game of the long-term, and it's strictly business. Russia has tried sin...

Influence isn't free, and NATO and project Ukraine cost resources to maintain; resources the US can no longer spare. What the "trade war" is about, it...

The days of US primacy are obviously definitively over. The system has become multipolar and the US is having to shift its strategy accordingly. The U...

For those who still fail to see what the true face of the United States looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCE75GrPfJ0 It has nothing to do w...

I used the term "deep state" to convey a broad idea, which I had assumed you would get the gist of. It is used colloquially even by academics, though ...

My sense is that the West is no longer characterized by liberalism, but rather social constructivism. Liberalism is a fig leaf used by the elite class...

This is what you asked evidence for, and that's what I gave. The sources provide a direct answer to your question, as I have underlined. It's fine if ...

If you're categorically uninterested in my line of thought, why be so disingenuous as to ask for sources, and then proceed to give me this cunty attit...

A few posts ago 'the Blob' was a "rabbit hole" that "made your eyes glaze over". Now you seem to agree that its existence is not controversial, but yo...

They do. Both articles seek to explain the continuity of a hawkish, primacy-oriented US foreign policy, despite the wishes of US presidents like Trump...

By calling it a rabbit hole you're basically just betraying your own ignorance. This isn't really controversial, as I said. Have at it: Why America’s ...

In this context, "Washington" is primarily the United States foreign policy establishment aka "the Blob". If you're genuinely interested I can provide...

This is the geopolitical power struggle of the modern age. Everything about this is political first, and various other things second, whether we like ...

You're not getting my perspective at all. They shouldn't be likened to buyers and sellers, but to economic and geopolitical rivals; enemies. The Unite...

No, I think it is quite right. Though, I look at it a bit from a more cynical perspective. The US has one interest, and one interest only: power. The ...

That's a pretty solid analysis. :up:

Red? No idea how anything I have said can possibly be interpreted as such. Considering you're coming at me with the standard "Everything's the other g...

Primitive tribalism?

How is that in any way different from the way the establishment used to run things? :chin:

Trumpsters and people who voted for Trump are "stupid", yet TPF categorically ignores what gave rise to Trump, and fails to provide a suitable alterna...

This isn't something the Trump administration randomly cooked up on a Wednesday. These current moves vis-á-vis the global economy are quite fundamenta...

In a school system that requires you to sit still for hours on end, I can certainly understand why it would be classified as such. I doubt highly ener...

The US seems to have its hands full, trying to deal with these 'basket cases'.

It appears to me that the US establishment is seeing the writing on the wall, and is retreating to its island to regroup. In today's geopolitical circ...

I wonder whether ADHD is a disorder at all. Except in perhaps extreme cases, people with ADHD are perfectly functional and healthy in a general sense....

- - That Kissinger quote is from 1975, by the way. If you know your dates, you'll know exactly what that means. What you're inadvertently engaged in i...

I think quite the opposite is the case, actually. Every time I point out what kind of an awful country the United States is, people look for ways to t...

So again, you just have no idea? You've got the gal to criticize my opinions, and you need citations to know what the fuck even happened? How convenie...

Many agree with that view, considering the number murdered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge must be seen against a backdrop of a population of only 7 m...

Ah, I see. The US is exceptional. So exceptional in fact, that they get to commit a little genocide every now and then. Just a little. Or a lot. But h...

It's always the Americans that have no clue about what their own country gets up to. Pol Pot was possibly even worse, and guess who he was funded by? ...

So have you done any research into that shining US track record since the last time 'we were here'? Pol Pot, East-Timor, Vietnam, endless wars in the ...

It really isn't. Neither Russia nor China can hold a candle to the wanton destruction the US has wrought upon the world. Did you know Uncle Sam seems ...

Catharsis for people who have a chip on their shoulder, probably.

Trump's election is like national catharsis for Americans. (And some confused Transatlanticists) For a few years they pretend all of America's trouble...

Good call.

Let's speculate about how victimized women were in the past, so we can project more original sin on men in the present. The lord of strife cares not w...

Sure thing. I guess I took the opportunity to just elaborate on the concepts in a little more detail for anyone who might find it interesting. :smile:

I would probably steer away from interpretations of Yinyang that are too dichotomous. If we assume yin = feminine = 'things women do' and yang = mascu...

You've not made an error - Socrates reigns supreme, after all. But you've simply made it clear that you're not genuinely interested in debate or under...

Right - and as expected, you have to pretend discernment doesn't exist and retreat to relativity. Had you told me that 10 replies ago, we could have s...

That's a bit rich, coming from someone who was expecting me to create a bridge to sushi not too long ago.