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| Cosmopolitan Empires |
| 2021-03-16 |
| [Z man] During the Cold War, few thought of the Soviet Union as an empire. At least the claim was not part of propaganda campaign against them. The communists, of course, liked to hurl around the term "western imperialists", but no one thought of the West or America as an empire. That was just part of the rhetoric used in the ideological war fought between the two sides in the third world. Empires fight to conquer land. East and West in the Cold War fought to win hearts and minds. Looking back, it is easier to see that the Soviet Union was an empire, because it is so obvious that America is an empire. We are also seeing more parallels between the two sides as the American empire enters its end phase. Like the Soviets at the end, the American empire is run by a collection of ossified geezers, clinging to a past for no other reason than they have no future. What happened to the Soviet Union thirty years ago is now happening to the American empire. An important similarity is both sides were cosmopolitan in their structure, organizing their people around a set of ideas. Traditional empires were organized around the conquering people, who imposed their will on those they conquered. Both the Russian and the American empires sought to assimilate the people brought into their orbit through ideology, rather than force. The captive people of both empires participated in the maintenance and defense of the empire, often as equals. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #7 If you can ignore this author's vile nonsense about the joos, you'll see some absolutely brilliant insights here. I can't |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-16 14:12 |
| #6 If you can ignore this author's vile nonsense about the joos, you'll see some absolutely brilliant insights here. Our globalist elites have indeed created a kind of empire, and they are indeed scared. Trump terrifies them. He called bullshit on the three foundations of the global empire - call it the global "condominium", or maybe "hedge fund": invite the world, invade the world, and build up China at your own people's expense. The problem with cosmopolitan empires is they erode the justification for empire in the effort to integrate the empire. If all peoples are the same, if nations do not really matter, then why is one people at the top of the system? Exactly. There is no such thing as a "global citizen." If such existed, America would cease to exist. If nations don't matter, then American elites have no justification for ordering the world according to American rules. In a truly cosmopolitan rules-based global order -- as opposed to the American Condominium/ Hedge Fund Americanus -- the dollar as reserve currency would cease to exist and with it, the justifications for the US Navy and US Air Force and all the trillions spent on their hardware. Our elites have created a sham empire and in the process are destroying America. We would have been far far better off had we turned inward after 1992 and focused on defending the homeland building a strong, traditional America with strong and secure borders, energy independence, low immigration, a balanced economy and a society without tribalism and race-Communist bullshit, one in which everyone belongs. |
| Posted by: Phase Wittlesbach3971 2021-03-16 14:10 |
| #5 *Snort* This sounds like all of those Cold War Left wing paranoia about the fiendishly clever CIA... |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-03-16 13:36 |
| #4 This article goes a bit heavy on the, ah, "cosmopolitan" thing to the outskirts of antisemitism. Other than that: it's right on the money. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2021-03-16 12:31 |
| #3 ^😊 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-16 10:49 |
| #2 I love that story, g(r)omgoru. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-03-16 10:41 |
| #1 Rabbi Altmann and his secretary were sitting in a coffeehouse in Berlin in 1935. "Herr Altmann," said his secretary, "I notice you're reading Der Stürmer! I can't understand why. A Nazi libel sheet! Are you some kind of masochist, or, God forbid, a self-hating Jew?" "On the contrary, Frau Epstein. When I used to read the Jewish papers, all I learned about were pogroms, riots in Palestine, and assimilation in America. But now that I read Der Stürmer, I see so much more: that the Jews control all the banks, that we dominate in the arts, and that we're on the verge of taking over the entire world. You know – it makes me feel a whole lot better!" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-16 09:29 |