Yes, and now the EU leaders are panicking. Through their media they urgently try to persuade the public that with Trump, the world and European security is now at stake - because they probably can not go on escalating the war against Russia. God, how unscrupulous and disintegrated beings they have.
By ill-conceived loyalty and the preposterous idea that only backward people victim of the most abject propaganda could refuse to join their European Utopia, our European leaders and bureaucrats let themself being dragged in a war they didn't really understand and that was detrimental to their countries' own interests.
And now the US don't have that much left to gain by protracting the war, they realise they will be left to dry with a gutted economy and a deeply antagonized and stronger than ever Russia at their door. Good enough reason for a little panic....
and I would add: an increasingly angry citizenry. The European misleadership class has been living in a bubble which is about to be popped in a very unpleasant way.
and now all over Europe, in France most of all the comments…Trump and his conspiracy and antivaxx team, his misogyny, the denial of his stolen election in 2020 and most of all his assault on democracy 6th January 21…less or not mentioned that he won the presidential campaign, this shows the real conspiracy the real censorship, the real propagandists, the real vitriol.
You write: “The liberal hegemony is no longer liberal”.
That implies that it once was liberal.
In what sense was it once liberal? What is your meaning of ‘liberal’ where you write “no longer liberal”?
My angle here: If you would elaborate what you mean by 'liberal' where you write "no longer liberal," that would give me an opening to press the claim that you should stop using 'liberal' in your reviling of the hegemists and hegemism. I am not asking you to declare yourself an exponent of liberalism; I am asking you only to stop using 'liberal' to hate on certain things we both deem hateworthy.
Thank you for the optimistic point of view. Unfortunately, from what been reported yesterday, Mike Pompeo and other neocons are being contacted by Trump to form his team. The swamp is still the swamp.
I cannot name one single person affiliated with Trump who criticizes the brutal ZioGenocide in IsraHell. THAT is a problem. I'll be delighted if Trump can prevent a war with Russia and/or fix some of our horrific domestic problems, etc. But there is NOTHING Trump can do to overcome his support of a Genocide - NOTHING!
Excellent summation, Dr. Diesen. Looking forward to you covering the next 4 years as objectively as you have the disaster of the last 4 years. I don’t have much hope that Trump will “save” America from all its messes, but less ideology and more pragmatism would be great.
Glenn, I'm a huge fan and I watch you on The Duran and other sites. I'm glad that Jeffrey Sachs was able to help get you back on YouTube!
Regarding this column you wrote regarding Trump and his pals, I will cheer on anything Trump does that prevents nuclear war. If he can disengage from the EU, WEF and others, I'll be delighted. If he happens to correct our horrendous domestic and immigration problems, I'll support that. But, and this is a HUGE BUT, I will have no respect for him or his administration if they continue to support the barbaric Genocide of IsraHell. Trump, Vance, Musk, Gabbard and Kennedy have all turned their backs on the Palestinians; they're either true believers or have been somehow compromised. AIPAC Terrorist ZioNazi Miriam Adelson contributed $100MILLION to Trump's campaign. Peter Thiel OWNS Vance. Little Ben Shitpiro is the personal AIPAC handler of Musk. And on and on and on. It's rumored that RFK Jr's sex addiction caused him to be compromised by Mossad. I have nothing but disdain for these people. If they manage to somehow straighten out serious problems both foreign and domestic, fine. But there is NOTHING they can do to overcome their criminal support of an inhuman GENOCIDE!
Remember Glenn, the same people who back Trump and his pals are the same ones who censored you and banned you from YouTube. Your reporting on IsraHell's Genocide and the failure in Ukraine put you in their sights. Make no mistake, it can and will happen to you and MANY others who dare to expose the War Criminals.
Thanks Glenn, that's a really good summary of my thoughts when I'm in an optimistic frame of mind. I don't think Trump will be worse than Biden/Harris as there is not much short of nuclear war to which he can escalate. Here's hoping anyway.
The only thing lacking, Glenn, was an accurate labelling of the "Illiberal liberals". In fact, if they are neolib, they are fash. If they are taking identity politics too far, but are not neolibs, they are Leftists in search of a vision.
There are very, very few authentic Liberals, and extremely few in any positions of power and authority, at least in the West. When elite liberals such as Ken Clarke MP are considerably to the left of the Kid Starver Labour Party (Let alone what remains of the Tories, his former party), it makes little sense to call us "Liberal democracies". Liberalism is long gone.
And they hate them virulently, so its the "Far-right" AND Feudalists. The far-right imagine the elites that look like them hold them in any better regard than they do the 'migrants'. But the far-right have never been known for intelligence.
Long time to vote the entrenched EU unelected out of office.
Life force likes a dramatic event for clarity I think as in the violent resolve of the Isreal/American Genocide as the situation continues to escalate.
A life force does exist if one thinks life on the planet is real.
While I agree with a lot of what was said here there is a certain line here which is hard to accept and that is that the US we see today is somehow a normal system (but with few internal issues). After so many years of criminality and "war on terror" this analysis despite sounding "good" if fails to address how rotten the entire political/economic system is, the corruption of the American society and the rest of the west as well.
I generally find your point of view as reasoned and reliable, but to advocate in favor of closed borders is beneath you. I believe all borders should be as open to immigrants as the U.S. hegemons have made the borders open for capitalist industry and capitalist depredations against poorer countries; countries, by the way, that have been impoverished by centuries of imperialism. Tear down all the walls and get rid of the border police!
Thanks Professor, for an absolutely superb article you have written here. I'm reminded of HG Wells book An Outline of History(2nd volume) in which the author discusses the set of conditions just prior to World War I.
Another point I would like to make is that of the fonts used here. Your article here works best with the text being Arial 11 and the sub-headings being Arial 12 and bold. The title at the top would be best at Arial 16 and bold, with the intro paragraph just below the title being Arial 14 and italicized with an indented bullet checkmark sign. Then below that I have put Substack | Prof Glenn Diesen, Nov. 07, 2024 this line being Arial 14 but not italicized. Also a light grey background, or close to it is desirable.
Trump and his cohort may very well continue to give Israel unconditional support and maintain a hostile stance towards its perceived adversaries, but I do think that Trump the pragmatist will stop short of allowing that mad dog Netanyahu drag the US into war against Iran. Trump the transactional businessman will know that if Iran comes under attack and closes the Straights of Hormuz, the price of oil will go through the roof and Western economies will collapse. He will not want to have that as part of his legacy.
Yes, and now the EU leaders are panicking. Through their media they urgently try to persuade the public that with Trump, the world and European security is now at stake - because they probably can not go on escalating the war against Russia. God, how unscrupulous and disintegrated beings they have.
They will, one by one, be voted out of office. The clowns at the EU, who we don't vote for, will gradually become irrelevant.
It cannot happen soon enough...
It has to happen that way. The German government collapsed just hours after Trump's victory. Crazy.
By ill-conceived loyalty and the preposterous idea that only backward people victim of the most abject propaganda could refuse to join their European Utopia, our European leaders and bureaucrats let themself being dragged in a war they didn't really understand and that was detrimental to their countries' own interests.
And now the US don't have that much left to gain by protracting the war, they realise they will be left to dry with a gutted economy and a deeply antagonized and stronger than ever Russia at their door. Good enough reason for a little panic....
and I would add: an increasingly angry citizenry. The European misleadership class has been living in a bubble which is about to be popped in a very unpleasant way.
and now all over Europe, in France most of all the comments…Trump and his conspiracy and antivaxx team, his misogyny, the denial of his stolen election in 2020 and most of all his assault on democracy 6th January 21…less or not mentioned that he won the presidential campaign, this shows the real conspiracy the real censorship, the real propagandists, the real vitriol.
Thank you for writing this piece. Excellent!
Once again, Dr. Diesen speaks with succinctness and clarity.
Glenn,
You write: “The liberal hegemony is no longer liberal”.
That implies that it once was liberal.
In what sense was it once liberal? What is your meaning of ‘liberal’ where you write “no longer liberal”?
My angle here: If you would elaborate what you mean by 'liberal' where you write "no longer liberal," that would give me an opening to press the claim that you should stop using 'liberal' in your reviling of the hegemists and hegemism. I am not asking you to declare yourself an exponent of liberalism; I am asking you only to stop using 'liberal' to hate on certain things we both deem hateworthy.
/Dan
The liberals proved themselves a bunch of liar losers when they put my ass in jail .
He means liar losers like ScKamala, not the definition of liberal the dictatorsionary claims
Thank you for the optimistic point of view. Unfortunately, from what been reported yesterday, Mike Pompeo and other neocons are being contacted by Trump to form his team. The swamp is still the swamp.
I cannot name one single person affiliated with Trump who criticizes the brutal ZioGenocide in IsraHell. THAT is a problem. I'll be delighted if Trump can prevent a war with Russia and/or fix some of our horrific domestic problems, etc. But there is NOTHING Trump can do to overcome his support of a Genocide - NOTHING!
Excellent summation, Dr. Diesen. Looking forward to you covering the next 4 years as objectively as you have the disaster of the last 4 years. I don’t have much hope that Trump will “save” America from all its messes, but less ideology and more pragmatism would be great.
Glenn, I'm a huge fan and I watch you on The Duran and other sites. I'm glad that Jeffrey Sachs was able to help get you back on YouTube!
Regarding this column you wrote regarding Trump and his pals, I will cheer on anything Trump does that prevents nuclear war. If he can disengage from the EU, WEF and others, I'll be delighted. If he happens to correct our horrendous domestic and immigration problems, I'll support that. But, and this is a HUGE BUT, I will have no respect for him or his administration if they continue to support the barbaric Genocide of IsraHell. Trump, Vance, Musk, Gabbard and Kennedy have all turned their backs on the Palestinians; they're either true believers or have been somehow compromised. AIPAC Terrorist ZioNazi Miriam Adelson contributed $100MILLION to Trump's campaign. Peter Thiel OWNS Vance. Little Ben Shitpiro is the personal AIPAC handler of Musk. And on and on and on. It's rumored that RFK Jr's sex addiction caused him to be compromised by Mossad. I have nothing but disdain for these people. If they manage to somehow straighten out serious problems both foreign and domestic, fine. But there is NOTHING they can do to overcome their criminal support of an inhuman GENOCIDE!
Remember Glenn, the same people who back Trump and his pals are the same ones who censored you and banned you from YouTube. Your reporting on IsraHell's Genocide and the failure in Ukraine put you in their sights. Make no mistake, it can and will happen to you and MANY others who dare to expose the War Criminals.
Thanks Glenn, that's a really good summary of my thoughts when I'm in an optimistic frame of mind. I don't think Trump will be worse than Biden/Harris as there is not much short of nuclear war to which he can escalate. Here's hoping anyway.
The only thing lacking, Glenn, was an accurate labelling of the "Illiberal liberals". In fact, if they are neolib, they are fash. If they are taking identity politics too far, but are not neolibs, they are Leftists in search of a vision.
There are very, very few authentic Liberals, and extremely few in any positions of power and authority, at least in the West. When elite liberals such as Ken Clarke MP are considerably to the left of the Kid Starver Labour Party (Let alone what remains of the Tories, his former party), it makes little sense to call us "Liberal democracies". Liberalism is long gone.
Liberal with jails for us all
Feudalists, and we are "serfs" - at best.
If "the left" hates the poor and working class, isn't it "the right"?
And they hate them virulently, so its the "Far-right" AND Feudalists. The far-right imagine the elites that look like them hold them in any better regard than they do the 'migrants'. But the far-right have never been known for intelligence.
Thanks for your great work Glenn!
We've shared the link on our daily report.
A Skeptic War Reports
https://askeptic.substack.com/
Long time to vote the entrenched EU unelected out of office.
Life force likes a dramatic event for clarity I think as in the violent resolve of the Isreal/American Genocide as the situation continues to escalate.
A life force does exist if one thinks life on the planet is real.
While I agree with a lot of what was said here there is a certain line here which is hard to accept and that is that the US we see today is somehow a normal system (but with few internal issues). After so many years of criminality and "war on terror" this analysis despite sounding "good" if fails to address how rotten the entire political/economic system is, the corruption of the American society and the rest of the west as well.
Well summarized...
I generally find your point of view as reasoned and reliable, but to advocate in favor of closed borders is beneath you. I believe all borders should be as open to immigrants as the U.S. hegemons have made the borders open for capitalist industry and capitalist depredations against poorer countries; countries, by the way, that have been impoverished by centuries of imperialism. Tear down all the walls and get rid of the border police!
Thanks Professor, for an absolutely superb article you have written here. I'm reminded of HG Wells book An Outline of History(2nd volume) in which the author discusses the set of conditions just prior to World War I.
Another point I would like to make is that of the fonts used here. Your article here works best with the text being Arial 11 and the sub-headings being Arial 12 and bold. The title at the top would be best at Arial 16 and bold, with the intro paragraph just below the title being Arial 14 and italicized with an indented bullet checkmark sign. Then below that I have put Substack | Prof Glenn Diesen, Nov. 07, 2024 this line being Arial 14 but not italicized. Also a light grey background, or close to it is desirable.
Who cares what you think about the fonts? You must be a copy editor.
Trump and his cohort may very well continue to give Israel unconditional support and maintain a hostile stance towards its perceived adversaries, but I do think that Trump the pragmatist will stop short of allowing that mad dog Netanyahu drag the US into war against Iran. Trump the transactional businessman will know that if Iran comes under attack and closes the Straights of Hormuz, the price of oil will go through the roof and Western economies will collapse. He will not want to have that as part of his legacy.