I got the same impression as well, but there are some good nuggets in it that were wroth sharing. This quip in particular was my favorite:

Yet there also is Bullshit Blowback, the West’s creating and operating a system of echo chambers that provide constant delusion feedback from the periphery to the center. For the usual location of these echo chambers is on the dependent margins, for instance in Georgia or Ukraine. Societies, in other words, that are far enough removed from the reality of life in the West as it really is – call that real-existing neo-liberalism, if you wish – to still idealize it.