How to restore capacity for an age of crisis.
    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      151·
      2 years ago

      I find pretty much all western articles with admissions of western decline tend to be written in this style. There are usually a few paragraphs of actual content in the middle of the article, that have to be smothered in the excuses at the start and the end to assure the reader that it’s not really the end.

    • redtea
      3·
      2 years ago

      … Star Trek technobabble applied to statecraft.

      It’s Lacan for reactionaries. I thought Sokal and Bricmont had put an end to so this but apparently not.

      Still, the author is right that the US is likely #1 in being asked for effective action by it’s people. And USians are begging for healthcare, education, and affordable housing. Even it’s military personal just be calling for effective leadership.

      The country may seem awfully powerful … but …

      Damn right it’s a paper tiger.

        • redtea
          2·
          2 years ago

          That’s a good discount! (😅)

          Not sure if I would read that article even if it was free. The less I know about Lacan’s and Jung’s pseudoscience, the better. I just found a link to any article about ‘topology’.

  • الأرض ستبقى عربية
    121·
    2 years ago

    The US will discover what Arabs have known for thousands of years. Iranians are top statecraftsmen. The US’s advantages over Iran are being reduced overtime. The sanctions didn’t produce the desired colour revolution, the Iranians just became more independent and less reliant on the US.

    Edit: some idiot downvoted me. But my comment is true, an Arab caliph once said “the Persians ruled for 1000 years and never needed us, we can’t rule for 100 years without needing their help”. By the Abbasid Dynasty the administration and bureaucracy was Persian.