tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post8506886889956005060..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Goodbye, AfghanistanDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-67187134152988903272021-04-20T10:08:21.390-04:002021-04-20T10:08:21.390-04:00Professor
To put it in a nutshell that some histo...Professor<br /><br />To put it in a nutshell that some historians would appreciate, we here are rather like a cross between Germany before Bismarck and Poland before partition. <br />That is rather succinct.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-39471276987534767752021-04-18T09:52:49.990-04:002021-04-18T09:52:49.990-04:00Am surprised that you have not accounted for the C...Am surprised that you have not accounted for the CIA, mercenaries, contractors, etc.,. that will not be leaving Afghanistan and has been reported on this week by other journalists. mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559668830445967169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-49104116522437152582021-04-18T05:49:51.450-04:002021-04-18T05:49:51.450-04:00(cont.)
Soviet, British, Spanish empire and influe...(cont.)<br />Soviet, British, Spanish empire and influence peddling all learned to be more satisfied in their own borders. After China and America learn this lesson then perhaps India or Nigeria will get ambitious? I have read that population estimates of China are about 200 million overdone as local cadres must fulfill baby quotas and gain central govt funding This could be same in very many countries. Chinese population could fall to between 700-400 million by century's end. America might surpass it or remain stable or fall as well. Interventionism saps a country's strength, decimating middle class and slowing thereby birth rates and economy. Ambition of rulling class, usually rich but certainly elite, technocratic upper class, destroys a country through overreach. You made quite a good point last week. Is my Xer generation like the hero generation of Civil War? Are millenials snowflake weaklings turned into a new artist/ silent generation? Then gen z should be new boomers and 60s quickly upon us. I don' t notice that. Crisis feeling remains. Like MAD doctrine in cold war nuclear race it seems no all out conflict is possible, which is needed to form strong character. So middle East forever wars will have to do. And at home culture wars. Rust belt despair on antidepressives between military tours and body sacks watching infrastructure decay, debt(credit cards, college debt)and import culture( walmart/amazon) paired with declining ethnic relevance as 3rd world immigration continues apace slowy taking political power away from mold majority similar to Irish and Italians between civil war/ww2. Deindustrialization, demographic shift in makeup and geopgraphically to south and west mean a new balance which will be expressed in a crisis moment of sorts. Stuffing the courts, reindustrializing and breaking with China. Perhaps the revolution of the left will eat its children as virtue signalling politicians, corporations, middle classes must put up for real by giving up influence, wealth to the newly arrived or black citizens. I read that whites in elite colleges were now limited in current year to 30-40% (70% pop proportion)and that protest for real change in corporate promotion and not lip service is underway. The reports of white indoctrination to self hate in elite academies ( NYC)and corporations( coke) sounds like the Maoist cultural revolution of the 1960s. Macron has rejected this as radical and banned foreign mosque funding, closing extremist mosque while Lavrov calls it ' cultural revolution against whites'. The world followed American revolution belatedly democratizing, and next two saeculum had great influence on military and social trends. Will American trend be one of integration with growing 3rd world internally? Must America renationalize and deglobalize however simultaneously? Trump' s MAGA slogan of isolationism would win the day and the democrat's left wing march of progress as well. A balance of sorts. America respects other' s borders, laws, customs physically while welcoming their immigrants. BLM, Antifa, virtue signalling internet and corporate America have many contradictions much as human rights justified invasions killing millions abroad. The way to hell is paved with good intentions. Wisdom comes with gey hairs. Youthful ardour is rash and the simplest answers are not always the right ones. Let us hope that America ages with grace and does not stumble and fall into the abyss of its own constructions.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-41949229505393543092021-04-18T05:49:07.777-04:002021-04-18T05:49:07.777-04:00Interventionism is hypocrisy. See mote in the othe...Interventionism is hypocrisy. See mote in the other' s eye instead of the log in your own. Trillions could have gone into infrastructure repair or education. I see however a long term good in American emotional involvement abroad. Chinese and Japanese isolation was often total. Europeans have colonized and attempted to shape the world. One learns through mistakes. Now we know a lot more about the Middle East and hopefully after withdrawing will respect its culture. Perhaps this will be a two way street as many immigrants have arrived in Western countries. Now the Chinese with BRI are trying their hand at economic colonialism through infrastructure and debt financing. They are also getting blowback. Also from the West where millions of unemployed and heavy trade deficits make enemies. Bootstrapping yourself at other's expense and global integration has its price.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.com