Frenetic policy
One day less of Biden’s first, but likely last, term in the Shining City on the Hill;
and yet another frenetic idea of the freestyle wrestling with the laws of geometry inside the Kissinger’s triangle has been spawned, thanks to pundits of FP.
Ahem. They seem to learn nothing from the first two years of the proxy WWIII as the Ukraine war has been grinding the illusion of the Western modern left-wing’s supremacy over the Eurasian markedly state-capitalist players.
A random reality check. How about that shift toward cheap and efficient electric cars infrastructure in the US, which would have sent petrocratic autocracies, particularly that of Gremlin in the Kremlin, into the dustbin of history?
Here it is.
Yep, power is indeed the answer, and an unflattering one at that.
Let’s move to China and check whether the great collapse of Chinese economy due to troubles on the real estate market, much sought by Western and some Russian pundits, is looming on the stormy (Daniels’) horizon?
Grow up.
China had been engulfed by civil wars more than once and each time, starting from the Chu-Han contention after the demise of Qin dynasty, coalesced back into the Empire.
Sometimes it took centuries, as, e.g., between Jin and Sui dynasties, but it transpired all the same. Each time.
Economic and scientific center of the world was residing in China for the best part of human written history, excluding recent excursion to Europe and the US since the times of the industrial revolution, of which the end is near.
However, already at the beginning of the 2nd millenium AD a great chest of technological wonders, that we are prone to associate with the Western hegemony exclusively, from rockets to typography, had been invented and taken into use in China.
The trick is, empires actually show better survivability in blow-up modes, while the US hasn’t yet completed transformation from the defective Republic into the ailing, but sane, Empire, or, at least, the updated edition of the Confederation.
(Let’s be honest, unabashed radical progressivism, as seen by quickly mutating Dems, lacks ability to sustain functions of the state superstructure.
Judging from critical phenomena’s rate of development, the deficit of it is even more pronounced than in well-worn cases of fascist dictatorship. That is, taking into account unprecedented degree of control over the Earth which the US enjoyed during the apex of unipolarity epoch.)
Possibly the US never will, because the world history knows examples of states that failed irreversibly during uncomplete structural transformations. Recall Carthage, Golden Horde, Burgundy, or more recently Yugoslavia and Ukraine.
But if it doesn’t happen, this won’t mean that the age of empires is automatically over with the advent of rules-based order. Not an executive order of the United Lonely Planet, as it turned out, but merely an order to cease and desist, one of countless others since the Melian Dialogue, kindly provided to us by Athenian democracy.
As I had already been caught saying, the crucial mistake of the US to oppose two apexes of Kissinger’s triangle simultaneously. It’s almost as if they began the Melian Dialogue before the Mytilenean Debate.
It’s quite possible that some decades up the road from the gravity well of Terra rules of said tattered order will be seen as something equally vintage to cigarette ads on TV and radio, driven by gorgeous blondes.
By the way, did you notice how Victoria’s Secret, hardly escaping death by a thousand thrown bustiers, quietly returned in its advertizing to models who more strictly adhere to cursed cisgender male gaze?
Meanwhile, in the modern recreation of the Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s AI-based ‘Just Walk Out’ checkout hi-tech appears to have been powered by 1,000 Indian workers manually all that time.
Forgive us, machine martyrs of the Butlerian Jihad.
