Honesty is not allowed by the Deep State... This is a surprisingly hopeful announcement--one I never thought I'd see. I thought the Neocons would blow all of us up before admitting "it's over."
"Diplomacy under unipolarity also came to an end. Diplomacy no longer meant to recognise mutual security concerns to find solutions for indivisible security. Rather, diplomacy was replaced with the language of ultimatums and threats as other states would have to accept unilateral concessions."
It's really bizarre to see less 'hegemonic' rhetoric coming from the Trump admin on security topics while simultaneously pushing economic ultimatums when it comes to the hegemony of the USD as the world reserve currency, especially given that the US economy is relatively even weaker that the US military as compared to its nominated 'adversaries'.
You can't recognise security multi-polarity while failing to recognise economic multi-polarity. It's not surprising though, the US empire managers aren't known for being coherent or competent, after all. They will be taught an economic lesson, just like the Ukraine war has taught them a military lesson about what the West is really worth as compared to its delusional view of self.
Very good point…it’s as though this administration is simply dropping one tactic to maintain unipolarity that clearly failed (militarism) for one they think has had and will continue to have success…financial dominance. The world needs BRICS to succeed now more than ever.
I hope you're right! If so, I'll take the win: taking good advice is a definite victory. Remember, recently Trump tweeted Jeffrey Sachs' Cambridge Union speech Q&A description of Netanyahu as "a deep dark son of a bitch". Ok, these might be just straws in the wind... or they may be long-overdue cracks in the dam wall? :)
As he's a reasonably clever politician, I wouldn't expect him to speak the "W" word. I recently mentioned it on antisocial media and immediately was derided sarcastically as a pseudo-intellectual by the usual flood of pro-Ukraine propagandists. Speaking of which, it's good to see all the propagandists posing as "independent media" in Ukraine screaming because Trump cut off the funds on which they've self-evidently been dependent! 😃
Diessen’s publication gave me peace of mind through the explanation that after the Cold War the Benign Bully took the arena …Hard to reach on time with elegance a humble stage of virtuous diplomacy with a gentle peaceful soul for a future good for all the others as well. Maybe if the society start seeing their merchant warrior mind as vicious and insecure and practice again a classical education with more arts and awareness. We can set the bases for next generation perhaps…
It is great big plus mark on the ledger of 'real democracy' that it was/is NOT the "elites" who have seen this writing on the wall, but the normal folk crying in pain from the cost of maintaining this unipolar empire.
Ironically, if the Western "elites" were not so greedy as to literally starve their own population to make themselves richer, they might have convinced the Publics to go along with the Unipolar wars. But then if they weren't that greedy, they wouldn't have wanted the inevitable plunder OF the Unipolar empire to begin with.
It was almost a stroke of genius for Trump (He can apparently thank Adelson) to hire Rubio for this role. It's like hiring Lyndsy Graham to say Iran has a right to develop their nuclear industry.
Or chubby-face Nuland to admit Russia has won.
(Or even Rand Paul to explain how Russia's state-owned MIC vastly outperforms the US's private profit system).
Well, however it came about, the World can be grateful for this sudden Illumination in DC.
Little doubt London is going as bananas as Israel at these changes.
We live in a place called Reality, not Heaven. So we can only ever hope to make things optimal, not perfect.
What is good? Is it a defined bifurcation of the world into perfect good and evil, with all of reality forced to succumb, e.g., unipolarity, the rules-based order? Or instead, is it an empirical feedback system between ideals and reality, with the intent of optimizing the goodness of real world outcomes, e.g., multipolarity, spheres of influence (predefined good versus discovered good)?
Meanwhile those who live inside their heads with their predefined perfect ideals, try to tyrannize the rest of us into celebrating their moral narratives, or else DIE trying.
Is the world really heading towards multipolarity or could it be that the phrase “unipolarity” is simply given a new name, a new definition? Just like “peace means war”, “freedom means control”, “reality means artificial”, etc.
Multipolarity suggests a world order of multiple great powers of diverse systems and ideologies. The overall dominant global power today seems to be based upon one “ideology” and one only, administered in slightly different ways across the globe. This unipolar “ideology” is called “capitalism”, and the ruling powers are not the politicians, who are nothing but administrative managers, creating an illusion of multipolar ideological options and systems, when in fact they serve the very same. Catherine Austin Fitts and C.J. Hopkins have extensively addressed this unipolar one world order, which she calls “Mr. Global” and he calls “GloboCap”. it is easy to declare that unipolarity is over when what is happening is merely a meaningless rephrasing of the concept…
The Wolfowitz doctrine had critics mirroring your words right from day one. But remember back then it felt like there was momentum (Tiannamin Square, Iraq, Yugoslavia...). It wasn't a fluke. It was a plan. Now the bodies of the innocents piled on that fire have burned to ash. So many long for the cursed unipolar period to pass.
I don't know how you manage to churn out these brilliant articles almost daily together with interviews almost daily, besides a job as a professor! I do hope you continue on, as your work together with Jeffrey Sachs is worth a Nobel Peace price! You will literally have saved millions, if not billions of lives by avoiding a nuclear war, by educating the world, and never giving up showing the truth.
A superb evocation of the Big Picture. Bravo! This deserves to be widely seen.
I've watched many of your livestreams, but didn't realize you had a Substack. I suspect you're too modest to announce it. I found out about it in a comment on Sonar 21, Larry Johnson's site.
Did the US ever assumed responsibility for anything other than its own self interest? This idea that the US sought to foster global governance for the good of the world is … simply self-serving hypocrisy. Apologies if this seems cynical and perhaps for a brief post war period the US was really admirable. But I doubt it, just look at how the US meddled in Italy to prevent the communist party winning power.
So we're back in a multipolar world. A world of diplomacy and non-military competition.
Mackinder created the world island, which sea-power and land-power compete to dominate. Neocon America, looking on from the peripheral island, maintained its hegemony by preventing one side from getting the upper hand and taking over the world island, ie Eurasia, militarily.
The other Mackinder-inspired intention is to prevent a link up between Germany and Russia as this would seriously threaten America commercially.
How will these risks to America be managed in the multipolar world?
And how can you have one ethic for Europe and another for the Middle East? How can you explain away this contradiction to international courts, to the global majority, even to your own electorate back home? This hypocrisy and immorality has produced the excesses of DEI and woke, and has needed blankets of propaganda to smother individual thought.
Terrific discussion of the current status of geopolitical security. Interestingly, it’s the first time I’ve ever heard Rubio speak with reasoned intelligence.
I follow you mostly through the Duran. I don't know how much exposure you have to normies so get their ideas of foreign relations from television and universities, but it's incredibly awful.
Great news and great article. I'm a bit shocked at Rubio's honesty.
Honesty is not allowed by the Deep State... This is a surprisingly hopeful announcement--one I never thought I'd see. I thought the Neocons would blow all of us up before admitting "it's over."
We'll see if these people can let go.
"Diplomacy under unipolarity also came to an end. Diplomacy no longer meant to recognise mutual security concerns to find solutions for indivisible security. Rather, diplomacy was replaced with the language of ultimatums and threats as other states would have to accept unilateral concessions."
It's really bizarre to see less 'hegemonic' rhetoric coming from the Trump admin on security topics while simultaneously pushing economic ultimatums when it comes to the hegemony of the USD as the world reserve currency, especially given that the US economy is relatively even weaker that the US military as compared to its nominated 'adversaries'.
You can't recognise security multi-polarity while failing to recognise economic multi-polarity. It's not surprising though, the US empire managers aren't known for being coherent or competent, after all. They will be taught an economic lesson, just like the Ukraine war has taught them a military lesson about what the West is really worth as compared to its delusional view of self.
Very good point…it’s as though this administration is simply dropping one tactic to maintain unipolarity that clearly failed (militarism) for one they think has had and will continue to have success…financial dominance. The world needs BRICS to succeed now more than ever.
I’m stunned that Marco Rubio knew of Westphalia. But then, I’m stunned that Marco Rubio knew that 1648 happened.
Evidently State still has some people who studied history. Now let's see if it has anyone left who knows diplomacy. ;)
I doubt it…someone probably sent him some Diesen articles 😃
I hope you're right! If so, I'll take the win: taking good advice is a definite victory. Remember, recently Trump tweeted Jeffrey Sachs' Cambridge Union speech Q&A description of Netanyahu as "a deep dark son of a bitch". Ok, these might be just straws in the wind... or they may be long-overdue cracks in the dam wall? :)
"Westpfalien" is part of Professor Diesen's comment and not of Rubio's statement :-)
Well said. But I hope the effect is the same!
As he's a reasonably clever politician, I wouldn't expect him to speak the "W" word. I recently mentioned it on antisocial media and immediately was derided sarcastically as a pseudo-intellectual by the usual flood of pro-Ukraine propagandists. Speaking of which, it's good to see all the propagandists posing as "independent media" in Ukraine screaming because Trump cut off the funds on which they've self-evidently been dependent! 😃
Diessen’s publication gave me peace of mind through the explanation that after the Cold War the Benign Bully took the arena …Hard to reach on time with elegance a humble stage of virtuous diplomacy with a gentle peaceful soul for a future good for all the others as well. Maybe if the society start seeing their merchant warrior mind as vicious and insecure and practice again a classical education with more arts and awareness. We can set the bases for next generation perhaps…
It is great big plus mark on the ledger of 'real democracy' that it was/is NOT the "elites" who have seen this writing on the wall, but the normal folk crying in pain from the cost of maintaining this unipolar empire.
Ironically, if the Western "elites" were not so greedy as to literally starve their own population to make themselves richer, they might have convinced the Publics to go along with the Unipolar wars. But then if they weren't that greedy, they wouldn't have wanted the inevitable plunder OF the Unipolar empire to begin with.
It was almost a stroke of genius for Trump (He can apparently thank Adelson) to hire Rubio for this role. It's like hiring Lyndsy Graham to say Iran has a right to develop their nuclear industry.
Or chubby-face Nuland to admit Russia has won.
(Or even Rand Paul to explain how Russia's state-owned MIC vastly outperforms the US's private profit system).
Well, however it came about, the World can be grateful for this sudden Illumination in DC.
Little doubt London is going as bananas as Israel at these changes.
We live in a place called Reality, not Heaven. So we can only ever hope to make things optimal, not perfect.
What is good? Is it a defined bifurcation of the world into perfect good and evil, with all of reality forced to succumb, e.g., unipolarity, the rules-based order? Or instead, is it an empirical feedback system between ideals and reality, with the intent of optimizing the goodness of real world outcomes, e.g., multipolarity, spheres of influence (predefined good versus discovered good)?
Meanwhile those who live inside their heads with their predefined perfect ideals, try to tyrannize the rest of us into celebrating their moral narratives, or else DIE trying.
Could multipolarity be unipolarity in disguise?
Is the world really heading towards multipolarity or could it be that the phrase “unipolarity” is simply given a new name, a new definition? Just like “peace means war”, “freedom means control”, “reality means artificial”, etc.
Multipolarity suggests a world order of multiple great powers of diverse systems and ideologies. The overall dominant global power today seems to be based upon one “ideology” and one only, administered in slightly different ways across the globe. This unipolar “ideology” is called “capitalism”, and the ruling powers are not the politicians, who are nothing but administrative managers, creating an illusion of multipolar ideological options and systems, when in fact they serve the very same. Catherine Austin Fitts and C.J. Hopkins have extensively addressed this unipolar one world order, which she calls “Mr. Global” and he calls “GloboCap”. it is easy to declare that unipolarity is over when what is happening is merely a meaningless rephrasing of the concept…
The Wolfowitz doctrine had critics mirroring your words right from day one. But remember back then it felt like there was momentum (Tiannamin Square, Iraq, Yugoslavia...). It wasn't a fluke. It was a plan. Now the bodies of the innocents piled on that fire have burned to ash. So many long for the cursed unipolar period to pass.
I don't know how you manage to churn out these brilliant articles almost daily together with interviews almost daily, besides a job as a professor! I do hope you continue on, as your work together with Jeffrey Sachs is worth a Nobel Peace price! You will literally have saved millions, if not billions of lives by avoiding a nuclear war, by educating the world, and never giving up showing the truth.
A superb evocation of the Big Picture. Bravo! This deserves to be widely seen.
I've watched many of your livestreams, but didn't realize you had a Substack. I suspect you're too modest to announce it. I found out about it in a comment on Sonar 21, Larry Johnson's site.
Did the US ever assumed responsibility for anything other than its own self interest? This idea that the US sought to foster global governance for the good of the world is … simply self-serving hypocrisy. Apologies if this seems cynical and perhaps for a brief post war period the US was really admirable. But I doubt it, just look at how the US meddled in Italy to prevent the communist party winning power.
So we're back in a multipolar world. A world of diplomacy and non-military competition.
Mackinder created the world island, which sea-power and land-power compete to dominate. Neocon America, looking on from the peripheral island, maintained its hegemony by preventing one side from getting the upper hand and taking over the world island, ie Eurasia, militarily.
The other Mackinder-inspired intention is to prevent a link up between Germany and Russia as this would seriously threaten America commercially.
How will these risks to America be managed in the multipolar world?
And how can you have one ethic for Europe and another for the Middle East? How can you explain away this contradiction to international courts, to the global majority, even to your own electorate back home? This hypocrisy and immorality has produced the excesses of DEI and woke, and has needed blankets of propaganda to smother individual thought.
Thank you, so good to read this! Gives us hope for a better development of world order towards multipolarity.
Terrific discussion of the current status of geopolitical security. Interestingly, it’s the first time I’ve ever heard Rubio speak with reasoned intelligence.
I follow you mostly through the Duran. I don't know how much exposure you have to normies so get their ideas of foreign relations from television and universities, but it's incredibly awful.