Professor Mearsheimer has long been the go to person for the most vital, unbiased, far-seeing and insightful thought processes regarding the geopolitical disaster the western powers inflicted upon the world with their ambitions to create a western bulwark on Russia's border.
His predictions from the start have been borne out by the dreadful realities that have unfolded ever since.
No matter how much the western powers try to distort the facts using semantic gymnastics nothing will shift the blame for the horrendous events which have taken place from them onto Russia. No matter how much historical reality they try to sweep under the carpet it is clear that a growing number worldwide see them as liars and this will have ongoing disastrous consequences regarding their reputation and for those who follow them if they persist in these quite barefaced lies.
Great discussion. Many thanks to the three gentlemen for sharing your insights with us. It is distressing to see where the US has led us. Hopefully, as this becomes apparent, a course correction will be taken. We may have to depend on the smarter, less biased, younger generation to direct us to a better future.
Alex Mercouris is one of the most informed persons on international politics you will ever hear from. His youtube channel, The Duran, is well worth following.
Ukraine war was quite unnecessary and very unfortunate. This is put into fine context or very succinctly by Tulsi Gabbard and left rotting, inhumane Democratic Party on this issue. All these unwarranted, aggressive, peace-destroying, barbaric acts of architecture were done by sadistic Obama the brute (his main forte was torture and killing people and watching their agony with rejoicing with high octane wows with rapture with Irish Catholic mass murderer cum butcher cum child mass murderer Biden butcher - Gaddafi's brutal killing and Bin Laden, a sleeping man with his family are cases in point). Bin Laden, maybe the worst terrorist, but we believe that we're supposed to be living in a civilized world with a system of administration of justice to capture a wanted man and bring - before a court of law or jurisdiction. But this vulgar, filthy, inhumane, barbaric duo, namely, Obama and Biden, are one of the worst seen in the annals of human history as mass murderers. Syria was the most peaceful nation before Obama and Biden came to power and their two-terms, they completely dedicated to destroying world peace and making the record number of refugees (duo made 65 million refugees, never seen in the world scene before), and Libya, Syria and Afghanistan handed over to lethal terrorist and made a record-breaking number of lethal terrorist outfits such as IS, ISIL, ISIS, and Syrian rebel groups, and made Syria ungovernable. The rest is history.
As previously mentioned, I’ve developed a “course” which makes for the basis of a very good non-religious religion, for the basis of a very good political platform, and for the operating system for artificial intelligence.
If we were smart as a species we would require that all of our top leaders and diplomats adhere to the basic principals outlined in this course. This would make for a situation where the world would be a much more peaceful place and we could concentrate on tackling the existential threats to our survival as a species.
Having said that, even if we were smart enough to pay attention to what the course has to offer and follow its basic dictates there are at least three (3) problems which are going to be difficult to try to overcome.
The first is the “tragedy of great power politics”. The second is how to maintain a certain level of competition in free markets while trying to realign the capitalistic system so that it is much more equitable and sustainable. And the third is how to make sure that AI’s interests are aligned with the long term interests of the human race as a species.
My argument is that even if we were to be able to rationally and reasonably navigate our future by way of using my “course” as a roadmap we will still be faced with some serious challenges. The trouble is that without using my course as a guide the most basic challenges become almost impossible to overcome and those that are on the horizon are thereby exacerbated and excellerated to the point to where they are become completely insurmountable.
As I’ve mentioned previously, my course is relatively simple and it’s based mostly on the work of others. It’s just a way of amalgamating a lot of good thinking into what amounts to a guide as a to how we might best try to save ourselves from ourselves and save ourselves from the multitude of dark clouds on the horizon.
From a geopolitical standpoint the world is a complete mess and in large part we can thank the US for mismanaging its power from the end of World War Two and especially during the unipolar moment. We completely squandered our opportunity to lead by example and follow the good advice of people like George Kennan and John Mearsheimer.
As far as trying to right the ship on that front, one of the best ways to try to head in the direction and try to stay on the right side of history would be for the right leader to circumvent the special interest groups and deep state and forcefully and rationally speak to and get the support of the American public directly. And the best way in which to frame that argument is by using my “course” and use it as a learning moment for the world.
It is always informative & illuminating to come across such viewpoints regarding "The Ukrainian Question". As well as find the Syrian-West Asian Imbroglio looked into. However, perhaps the potential of these to draw in other regions of the world & result in migration of refugees is a concern while the cost to the natural environment usually remain ignored. Backward and under-developed states are one thing along with developing states. Where the state is a rational cumulative expression of a group of people or even groups of people. States that aren't exactly those but merely seem to mimic the external rituals of one - more dangerously sans comprehension while resenting it are another. It more accurately turns one to the spectre of HIV states, with merely the external shell of the state - often a colonial remanant - or a corpse of one that merely has maggots feeding - including the organs & energies that had lent it it's life once - will remain a strategic concern. As they will continue to merely do that, needing fresher corpses or tuning healthy states into diseased ones - till rending it fit to be consumed, will be a strategic concern. Since it takes more than individual biological time - often showing signs within one if one begins from the date of their formal existence - becomes different than & from states that are those: formal, rational, and cumulative self-expression! Thus reinforcing psychocultural/psychosocial factors as crucial. Sometimes more than the apparent structural ones! Something that we are finding come into existence because the state as a unit within Neo-Realism has to be one first - a state ie. as described. Assuming them to be so as a given has meant problems in the world. Unsure if the world cyclical theories take these into account but do seem rather close to what is emerging as the decades of change. Except the unasked concern: of what kind?
Professor Mearsheimer has long been the go to person for the most vital, unbiased, far-seeing and insightful thought processes regarding the geopolitical disaster the western powers inflicted upon the world with their ambitions to create a western bulwark on Russia's border.
His predictions from the start have been borne out by the dreadful realities that have unfolded ever since.
No matter how much the western powers try to distort the facts using semantic gymnastics nothing will shift the blame for the horrendous events which have taken place from them onto Russia. No matter how much historical reality they try to sweep under the carpet it is clear that a growing number worldwide see them as liars and this will have ongoing disastrous consequences regarding their reputation and for those who follow them if they persist in these quite barefaced lies.
Great discussion. Many thanks to the three gentlemen for sharing your insights with us. It is distressing to see where the US has led us. Hopefully, as this becomes apparent, a course correction will be taken. We may have to depend on the smarter, less biased, younger generation to direct us to a better future.
Alex Mercouris is one of the most informed persons on international politics you will ever hear from. His youtube channel, The Duran, is well worth following.
Ukraine war was quite unnecessary and very unfortunate. This is put into fine context or very succinctly by Tulsi Gabbard and left rotting, inhumane Democratic Party on this issue. All these unwarranted, aggressive, peace-destroying, barbaric acts of architecture were done by sadistic Obama the brute (his main forte was torture and killing people and watching their agony with rejoicing with high octane wows with rapture with Irish Catholic mass murderer cum butcher cum child mass murderer Biden butcher - Gaddafi's brutal killing and Bin Laden, a sleeping man with his family are cases in point). Bin Laden, maybe the worst terrorist, but we believe that we're supposed to be living in a civilized world with a system of administration of justice to capture a wanted man and bring - before a court of law or jurisdiction. But this vulgar, filthy, inhumane, barbaric duo, namely, Obama and Biden, are one of the worst seen in the annals of human history as mass murderers. Syria was the most peaceful nation before Obama and Biden came to power and their two-terms, they completely dedicated to destroying world peace and making the record number of refugees (duo made 65 million refugees, never seen in the world scene before), and Libya, Syria and Afghanistan handed over to lethal terrorist and made a record-breaking number of lethal terrorist outfits such as IS, ISIL, ISIS, and Syrian rebel groups, and made Syria ungovernable. The rest is history.
Durian, by the way, is a stinking fruit known for its stench. Too bad some people can't spell.
Whatever happens, we'll still have cucumbers.
As previously mentioned, I’ve developed a “course” which makes for the basis of a very good non-religious religion, for the basis of a very good political platform, and for the operating system for artificial intelligence.
If we were smart as a species we would require that all of our top leaders and diplomats adhere to the basic principals outlined in this course. This would make for a situation where the world would be a much more peaceful place and we could concentrate on tackling the existential threats to our survival as a species.
Having said that, even if we were smart enough to pay attention to what the course has to offer and follow its basic dictates there are at least three (3) problems which are going to be difficult to try to overcome.
The first is the “tragedy of great power politics”. The second is how to maintain a certain level of competition in free markets while trying to realign the capitalistic system so that it is much more equitable and sustainable. And the third is how to make sure that AI’s interests are aligned with the long term interests of the human race as a species.
My argument is that even if we were to be able to rationally and reasonably navigate our future by way of using my “course” as a roadmap we will still be faced with some serious challenges. The trouble is that without using my course as a guide the most basic challenges become almost impossible to overcome and those that are on the horizon are thereby exacerbated and excellerated to the point to where they are become completely insurmountable.
As I’ve mentioned previously, my course is relatively simple and it’s based mostly on the work of others. It’s just a way of amalgamating a lot of good thinking into what amounts to a guide as a to how we might best try to save ourselves from ourselves and save ourselves from the multitude of dark clouds on the horizon.
From a geopolitical standpoint the world is a complete mess and in large part we can thank the US for mismanaging its power from the end of World War Two and especially during the unipolar moment. We completely squandered our opportunity to lead by example and follow the good advice of people like George Kennan and John Mearsheimer.
As far as trying to right the ship on that front, one of the best ways to try to head in the direction and try to stay on the right side of history would be for the right leader to circumvent the special interest groups and deep state and forcefully and rationally speak to and get the support of the American public directly. And the best way in which to frame that argument is by using my “course” and use it as a learning moment for the world.
This is not the place for you to promote your own interests. Perhaps take a course in good manners?
Unfortunately I think George Carlin was right…
It is always informative & illuminating to come across such viewpoints regarding "The Ukrainian Question". As well as find the Syrian-West Asian Imbroglio looked into. However, perhaps the potential of these to draw in other regions of the world & result in migration of refugees is a concern while the cost to the natural environment usually remain ignored. Backward and under-developed states are one thing along with developing states. Where the state is a rational cumulative expression of a group of people or even groups of people. States that aren't exactly those but merely seem to mimic the external rituals of one - more dangerously sans comprehension while resenting it are another. It more accurately turns one to the spectre of HIV states, with merely the external shell of the state - often a colonial remanant - or a corpse of one that merely has maggots feeding - including the organs & energies that had lent it it's life once - will remain a strategic concern. As they will continue to merely do that, needing fresher corpses or tuning healthy states into diseased ones - till rending it fit to be consumed, will be a strategic concern. Since it takes more than individual biological time - often showing signs within one if one begins from the date of their formal existence - becomes different than & from states that are those: formal, rational, and cumulative self-expression! Thus reinforcing psychocultural/psychosocial factors as crucial. Sometimes more than the apparent structural ones! Something that we are finding come into existence because the state as a unit within Neo-Realism has to be one first - a state ie. as described. Assuming them to be so as a given has meant problems in the world. Unsure if the world cyclical theories take these into account but do seem rather close to what is emerging as the decades of change. Except the unasked concern: of what kind?