Who by his own hand? Who by his Lady’s command? Who shall I say is calling? Leonard Cohen The US and collective West are in decline: in some countries more rapidly than in others; in some self-accelerated. On the latter, … Read More »
Today Mark Taliano posted this. I concur without reservation and invite those with a different view to argue it in the comments section or, by arrangement, in a guest post. What am I thinking? What am I thinking. I am … Read More »
A downside of taking up arms against a dying hence triply dangerous empire, even as a mere keyboard warrior, is the bi-weekly visitation in the wee small hours of cognisance, temporarily overwhelming my emotional defences, of the enormity of its … Read More »
I ended yesterday’s post, on the West’s economic decline, by speaking of a rapidly growing constituency, obliged by a once progressive capitalism to sell its labour but now increasingly unable – thanks to manufacturing having gone south, and to automations … Read More »
The year now ending saw a record number of elections in the West. In not one of them did the decline of Western supremacy feature. Like the proverbial elephant, it was addressed by neither America’s duopoly nor Britain’s. The same … Read More »
The unipolar moment is no more and Western powers now rely on certified terrorists to help them achieve short-term Pyrrhic victories. Even as the loud cheers still echo, there’s no reason to believe the misadventure in Syria will be worth … Read More »
Podcasting a few hours after I’d posted on the fall of Assad, Brian Berletic moved from an incisive thirty-five minute exposition on what happened, to a more general observation: Although the multipolar world grows economically, even militarily; surpassing the US … Read More »
A few months ago a reader asked a rhetorical question. Why, she demanded, should we trust those who can’t call a genocide a genocide on anything at all? I’ve since used it a number of times, most recently when someone … Read More »
Part 3 opened with the Greater Israel aims of men like Itamar Ben-Gvr and Bezalel Smotrich. While their messianic vision does not directly encroach on Iran’s territorial integrity … … its eastern borders would push it towards the Islamic Republic … Read More »
Years ago I ran this as my masthead quote. Though focused on the USA, it applies to the West at large. As I sipped my coffee this morning and gathered my thoughts for part 3 of my nail-biting series, US … Read More »