In 1936 Dale Carnegie published his seminal self-help work, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” As a book dedicated purely to interpersonal relations I read it in my late-teens early-twenties and took a few damn good lessons away from it. But, I’m not writing today to discuss Dale Carnegie. I’m here to write the first chapter of a book entitled, “How to Lose Allies and Create Enemies.”
The American way of war and diplomacy (the two are inseparable, remember your Clausewitz) has grown too open-ended. We excel at the operational art of war and tactics, more often than not winning battle after battle. Yet, like Hannibal at the gates of Rome in the aftermath of Cannae we have forgotten how to turn tactical and operational victory into strategic peace. Part of this is we have, either consciously or unconsciously, forgotten question five of the Powell Doctrine: is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless engagement. This question represents to me the supreme invocation and obligation of every great statesman: prudence. Or restraint, if you prefer.
We also have fetishized, military, and military technology. Our armed forces call it total spectrum dominance. (If the technological advances made in the Russo-Ukrainian War are not giving our generals and intellectual colonels indigestion we are well and truly fucked.) This reliance on Big Data during wartime has made American generals dangerously indecisive while the sip coffee and wait for the accrual of more and more data. But, as U.S. Grant said, “in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide.” It has also made us forget the absolute supreme importance of strategy. Now, in warfare there are tactics, operations and strategy. But my focus here is more on the outright diplomatic arrogant dismissal of grand strategy since 1992. I ask each and every one of you who cares about the subject: have you heard any discussion anywhere in the last 30 years about what kind of grand strategy we should have?
No, you have not, which is criminal because American grand strategy has been the same, and should have remained so during the so-called Uni-polar Moment, for more than a century.
Since the days of the Great White Fleet 120 years ago the United States has had a simple grand strategy, one easily understood by a high school educated American citizen: no one power or coalition of hostile powers can dominate the Eurasian landmass. If that were to occur they would have the resources to invade the Western Hemisphere with ease. Full Stop.
Today Americans are so globally and geographically ignorant, enamored with their gadgets and so overcome with financial difficulties–all features not bug bequeathed by our ruling class–that this simple idea is now difficult to understand by the average Josephine.
How did we get here?
Two easy answers: first, thirty years of post-cold war dominance of global decision making. Decision making that made no consideration for consequences became the norm. Ignorance of future potential peer competitors become the norm. By this time the Neo-con influence of total dominance became the norm. These three norms led to serious incuriosity in our diplomatic and security apparatus, creating only careerists rising up the ladder. A true danger to national well being.
Second, and most importantly, we forgot the most important Iron Law of Westphalian international relations: great powers have no permanent friends (or enemies) only interests. After thirty years of attempting dominance and willfully or otherwise ignoring the Iron Law our power diminished and is now in visible decline. The consequences of this wearing before our very eyes is like a massive pile up on the opposite lane of interstate, yet our policy makers drive by the looming catastrophe (not even rubber-necking) laboring under the delusion that all is well and our unipolar world is robust and healthy. It most certainly is not.
With Xi Jing Ping’s announcement that it was time to bury the global rules based order, multi-polarity was born. The siege has begun. NATO is dead. Although the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not yet the organizational security block opposing NATO it soon will be. Not in two years, but maybe five, certainly ten.
Let’s explore the SCO a bit.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was founded in June 2001 as a security organization to combat terrorism in Central and East Asia two full months before 9/11. Originally founded by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan it now includes as full members the following: India, Pakistan, Iran and Belarus are now full members as well. Official observers are too many to list. See this link for details.
This week, under the auspices of the SCO, China, Mongolia and Russia, finally clinched the Siberian gas field pipeline deal. This is now the largest energy project on the entire planet. We have driven our adversaries into the arms of each other by our stupidity. Let me repeat that: our blistering arrogance first drove Russia into the arms of China by uparming the Ukraine. Now Trumps idiocy in levying secondary sanctions on the purchase of Russian oil has driven India into the arms of China and Russia. Ukraine was and is a corrupt failing state that we engineered a coup against a democratically elected pro-Russian president to install a comedian. All Russia asked for was Ukrainian neutrality but with every hi-tech NATO weapon in existence at his disposal the little comedian began his drama, thus precipitating a war that ultimately drove Russia into the arms of China. Even worse it ratcheted up an ongoing demonization campaign against China as an enemy because we just don’t know how to live in peace with anyone.
For now the SCO is still a security organization but it is branching out. Its first step is to become the Chinese engine of Eurasian economic integration. So to was NATO the European engine of integration in the beginning under the Marshall Plan. But China’s ambitions outstrip those of Truman’s era. The true driving force behind Eurasian integration is China’s Belt and Road project. This project which seeks to reintegrate all of Eurasia into a single Chinese dominated ecumene, barring Western Europe, is the single greatest threat to American sovereignty that we have ever faced. I do not overstate my case here. This is an enormous long-term threat we have no answer to as yet. I doubt we ever will which is why I have developed a mid-term peace plan that would prevent war with China. I’ll post it in the near future.
Regardless, I’m a sucker for Silk Road romanticism. I have traveled the length, width and breadth of the entire Silk Road: from China to Iran to Istanbul and finally Venice. But if the lands from Istanbul to China are integrated economically by Chinese power and infrastructure America—so long as we carry on with our now customary arrogance is mortal danger. In a word: fucked.
An example of the kind of fuckery we can soon anticipate—a danger I saw coming in 2015 when I noticed the ATMs in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan no longer offered American Dollars but Chinese Renminbi—is the singular most important and major project discussed at the SCO Summit: creation of an alternative payment system to the Swift banking architecture of the west that emerged in the later years as an offshoot to the the Brenton Woods Agreement after World War II.
You know you want even more fuckery. So here it is: Xi has secured an agreement from all the members of the SCO to create an SCO Development Bank, which will rival the IMF and World Bank in the West. He’s been trying to secure this for a decade. Trump delivered it to him in a week of tomfoolery and double-speak on social media.
Need more? No problem. Another item up for discussion between several of the SCO countries was the Arctic: investments in the Arctic; how to exploit the Arctic; how to dominate the Arctic. Note: no Americans were at the SCO as observers, not even as a member of the Arctic Council. Think about that for just a moment. Our diplomats are completely ignorant of discussions that our allies, like the South Koreans are engaging in with the SCO. Is this diplomatic insanity, malfeasance, malpractice, or just outright stupidity? I report, you decide.
Another edifying aside of mass fuckery: at the beginning of Trump‘s second term Indian Prime Minister Modi visited Trump, and there was a palpable sense of excitement about Indian and American relations going forward. There is very real potential for joint naval and space operations between the two nations. Moreover, India could be the third pole we need to contain China. Thus, it was clear from Trump‘s first term that Modi and Trump had a good relationship. Of course, this says much, much more about Modi and Indian desires than it does Trump perspicacity (he probably doesn’t even know what that word means by the way). Nonetheless Trump outright betrayed Modi when he agreed to the EU and NATO levying secondary sanctions against China and India for importing Russian oil. This should come as no surprise. After all, Trump’s raison de vivre is winning the daily 24 hour news cycle first and foremost. Why not fuck Modi in the process of domestic glory? Thus he pushed a potential ally and leader of the largest population on earth into the arms of the SCO. And made him a star at the BRICS summit where he could ham it up with Putin and Xi.
Meanwhile, what about the Second Law of Westphalian politics? You know, the law of Unintended Consequences? Well here’s a whopper for you: the agreement of the Siberian 2 pipeline between Russia, China, and Mongolia will take all of the natural gas that has been sent to Europe for the last 50 years and will now send it to China and other places for the next 30. Europe is now paying four times what it used to for liquid natural gas that is being imported from the United States. It is looking at an extremely cold winter without enough energy and that is going to drive inflation. I am due to have a conversation with a friend that lives in Denmark tomorrow and I’m going to ask him about energy prices. The chaos of rising energy prices is devastating European industry. In the last year alone Germany has lost 196,000 businesses. I repeat 196,000 businesses in Germany closed in one year. That’s devastating to any economy, but Germany long the economic engine of Europe and the EU is deindustrializing for one simple reason: the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which has been an absolute catastrophe for Europe. The United States is responsible for it.
As Kissinger said about being America’s friend, “The word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
The reason we don’t know how to live in peace with anyone anymore is that after the end of the Cold War, we reigned triumphant for 35 years and could do damn well whatever we want it all over the world and nobody could oppose us. Well after 35 years it becomes a habit and habits are hard to break, especially mental ones and that’s why our ruling elites are so delusional in their thinking about international affairs. We are now creating the very monster that can actually threaten our hegemony of the Western Hemisphere. This is the most dangerous possible time in American history when it comes to international relations, and we are being ruled by fools. I fear for the future more than anyone can possibly imagine.
Meanwhile, Putin is probably incredibly surprised at how easy it now appears to fracture NATO and to gain new potential allies in Eastern and Central Europe. We are also looking at the proto-formation of a Chinese-Russian-Indian entente. Consider the immense rewards Putin will gain after starting a small war that threatened not a single American vital interest? One in which Russia simply demanded neutrality from its neighbor. The war’s consequences have propelled Russia into a potential global order shifting alliance. This was not Putin’s original intent nor goal. But because the US, under Biden and now Trump, have scored so many “own goals” this is where we are.
The US now behaves much like Venice before the 1508 when the first Holy Alliance, formed by Pope Julius II, also known as the League of Cambrai came together. It took everyone in the European inter state system to band together to defeat Venice. Of course, Venetian behavior prior to the war against it had been high handed. They raised prices on spices, silk and all the goods they imported from the East at will, bringing penury to the elites of Europe, who were the only ones who could afford such luxury. Europe had had enough. The League included France, the Hapsburg Monarchy, the Papal States and the Spanish Empire. Venice suffered a chastening defeat at the battle of Agnadello in 1509. Before this alliance, no one could defeat the Serene Republic. The League of Cambrai did collapse over personality disputes, but not before they took Venice down two pegs. And this is when Venice began its terminal decline that ended when Napoleon overthrew the republic. But after 1509 world change seriously accelerated: Spain pilfered the New World and Portugal built a spice empire in the East by rounding Africa, conquering parts of India, destroying the Ottoman navy in the Indian Ocean and upon entering the Golden Chersonese, conquered the greatest spice entrepôt in the world, the city of Malacca and its adjoining straits, thereby dominating the spice trade from Indonesia. The arrogant behavior of Venice incited all the developments leading to lost income, increasing debt and decline, just as the US is doing now. Unintended consequences have a way of creating fuckery.
The US, however, unlike Venice, is not just passively letting these nations find common interests, the US under Biden and Trump has actively pushed them together. Secondary sanctions on India were a slap in the face of a natural ally of the United States. We already know what happened: Modi went to Beijing and held hands with Putin and Xi.
Own goal!
But the biggest problem we have, as I see it, is that the US can no longer be considered a ‘rational actor’ in the anarchic Westphalian state system presently in existence. Why? One word: Trump. Trump has three huge crippling defects as a leader. Number one: his biggest donors are hard right conservative Jewish dual citizens (Yeah, I said it. You can only serve one master. Fuck off if you disagree). Donors like Mrs. Adelson and others own Trump’s Israel policy. They drive the policy supporting genocide which is not rational by any stretch of the imagination. Second, Trump is one of those pusillanimous leaders in history who acts on what he hears from the last person he talks to. This is truly, epically bad. Third: TACO. Trump always chickens out. At heart the man is a coward. But as my great-grandfather told me, there is nothing more dangerous than a coward in a corner. We must endure three more years of this.
As the Guatemalans used to say during the years of genocide: la puebla es jodida.
Chris
“Now, in warfare there are tactics, operations and strategy.”
I think you forgot perhaps the most important of all: logistics. Without which the other three don’t matter.
GrimJim
You wrote (caps mine), “This project which seeks to reintegrate all of Eurasia into a single Chinese dominated ecumene, barring Western Europe, is the single greatest threat to American SOVEREIGNTY that we have ever faced. ”
Did you mean hegemony, not sovereignty?
If not, how do you see China threatening the USA’s sovereignty? I didn’t get that from the rest of the article.
Camelotkidd
great article, Sean Paul
Like I’ve been saying for years–you can’t run an empire with neoliberalism as your operating system
hvd
Hannibal wasn’t at Rome’s doorstep after Cannae. It was after Trasimeno.
Feral Finster
Don’t kid yourself.
Offer Modi some token sanctions relief, whisper a few sweet nothings about looking the other way at the latest persecution of Muslims (to be kept in a back pocket for use as convenient) and India will fold.
Purple Library Guy
I dunno, Feral. That assumes that the most powerful power that you’d want to fold to is in fact the US. But Modi has been going to Chinese events lately. He’s not living in Washington D.C., he’s seeing where China is at fairly first hand. He may be concluding that if you’re going to fold to anyone it might as well be the winner. ESPECIALLY if they’re offering a better deal.
Sean Paul Kelley
@Chris: the operational art of war includes logistics. It’s inherent in the word.
@HVD: artistic license.
@GrimJim: any single power or coalition of hostile powers that unifies the Eurasian landmass is a direct and immediate threat to our sovereignty. We, in our arrogance, will make the coalition hostile to us in my opinion.
Feral Finster
@PLG: the US still enjoys vastly greater soft power than does China.
A degree from Stanford opens far more doors (and certainly more in India) than does even the best degree from Tsinghua University. Indian oligarchs crave western passports, not Chinese. They overbid for the right to buy western trophy properties, not an address in Shanghai. They want their offspring to be based in Vancouver or NYC and not Hong Kong.
The list goes on.
Fair? Nope. But fair has nothing to do with it.
Dan Lynch
Very good essay, Sean.
I agree with you that Trump is a fuck-up, but I am skeptical that things will change much when Trump is gone because the oligarchy will still be in place and the oligarchs can always find another puppet.
bruce wilder
Great essay, but I do not agree with the idea in the penultimate paragraph that Trump is somehow the singular reason that the U.S. can no longer be considered a rational actor. You actually make the case that rationality fell victim to hegemonic arrogance in the 1990s. Trump with a relict “America First” trailing behind him, to me seems to be a cracked version of realism, that has emerged to challenge teh blob. In teh blob, the rancid amoralism of Dulles stitched to the fictional corpse of the naive idealist Alden Pyle, rationalism suffered rigor mortis circa 2001.
It is kind of strange to be hoping for a resurgence of a redemptive antisemitism, as if that could be a thing
Hiero
“contain China” lol I think that ship sailed at least a decade ago, it’s surely long gone now and the little tussle between India and Pakistan had to have put a few more sails up
I’d say ding dong donnie had no chance (what’s happening was coming no matter without a miracle, all the chips seem to be on attaining super AI and fuck everything else), but he definitely is every accelerationists’ tsunami of a wet dream.
Feral Finster
“Meanwhile, Putin is probably incredibly surprised at how easy it now appears to fracture NATO and to gain new potential allies in Eastern and Central Europe.”
Also, please stop kidding yourself. NATO is united as never before, as Russian dithering, impotence and indecision have caused it to smell blood.
No, Orban and Fico don’t count. Should they try to interfere with NATO’s planned aggression, they will find out how little freedom of action they really have.
Hiero
“redemptive antisemitism” this only becomes more and more attractive to people as there continues to be no outlet for the anger building up over this century’s holocaust by this century’s nazis. The worst part is that it’s exactly what they want/need to happen to fuel their movement. Talk about fucked.
Carborundum
I agree that one can’t lay all the irrationality at Trump’s feet, but his administration does represent a step function change.
Pre-Trump II we all knew you did stupid shit, but it was manageable. Now it isn’t. You guys are noodling along like it’s business as slightly stupider than usual and you can’t do anything. It isn’t, you can – and you’ll like the alternatives a very great deal less.
joey_n
A nice, much-needed break from the commentary one sees on e.g. The Duran claiming that the Europeans committed economic suicide. What, no mention of that RAND report? Is the fact that the US has military bases on some European countries irrelevant? Who stands to benefit the most from broken ties between Russia and the rest of Europe? (Every time I ask these questions on the Duran’s YouTube videos my comment gets eaten)
There was a comment in an earlier thread suggesting that Europe’s subordination to the US isn’t entirely voluntary:
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Three more years? Hardly. Think more like thirty-one years or more if human lasts that long. Soon enough, we will be praying for AI to meet those doomsday expectations and free us from the nightmare even if it means death for us all. Yes, it will get and be that bad.
In the meantime, Kim Jong Un and Xi couldn’t be more pleased that Trump raided the Hyundai plant and threw a wrench in South Korea’s American EV investment. Trump is a communist, no doubt about it and this is yet another way in which he proves it. So much proof but no eyes in which to see the ubiquity of it.
bruce wilder
C: Trump’s . . . administration does represent a step function change. . . . Pre-Trump II . . . . it was manageable. Now it isn’t.
Really? “Manageable”?!
Managed by whom? When? When was this “management” last in effect?
I know when I think I could last discern the outlines of a rational, realistic impulse in American foreign (or domestic) policy and it was in the Administration of George H. W. Bush. Maybe, if we stretched our criteria, we can see something fading away to black in the Clinton Administration. Once the Project for a New American Century was underway, but I think realistically, earlier when Clinton took the deal China was offering to export American industry wholesale in exchange for enriching Wall Street, American politics slipped out of any remaining institutional accountability into serving the interests of a tiny, globalized elite alone.
Socio-economic classes and institutions were established, which were locked into processes of disinvestment and predation behind a screen of political propaganda and pretense to manipulate the masses, A crisis, where the U.S. might have staged a reversal of course with mass democratic support, came and went in 2006-9, but we know how that turned out. Everything since then for non-elites in the U.S. (and elsewhere in the West) has been a gradual coming to consciousness of the full horror. Seeing Trump as singularly and recently “responsible” is just a form of prolonging the denial that has been submerging political awareness for 25 years.
Yes, the foundations are crumbling and things are getting worse. But, “a step function change”?!? In case you didn’t notice the previous President had advanced Parkinson’s and let his corrupt family draw the U.S. into a proxy war with a nuclear power and destroyed the economy foundations of Western Europe, blowing up the natural gas pipeline Russia built to supply Germany. Were you asleep for all that? Was that “manageable”?
marku52
“but I think realistically, earlier when Clinton took the deal China was offering to export American industry wholesale in exchange for enriching Wall Street, American politics slipped out of any remaining institutional accountability into serving the interests of a tiny, globalized elite alone.”
My comment over at Matt Stollers:
“Has any other nation in history had their business elites run a going out of business sale, sell off all the productive assets of the nation, then use the proceeds to profit further from a share buyback created stock market bubble? I cant’ think of one…..”
Mark Level
This is overall a very impressive contribution from Mr. Kelly, and for the most part shows a great deal of historical knowledge and insight, but there is one absurd, insane passage which mars it a bit:
“Since the days of the Great White Fleet 120 years ago the United States has had a simple grand strategy, one easily understood by a high school educated American citizen: no one power or coalition of hostile powers can dominate the Eurasian landmass. If that were to occur they would have the resources to invade the Western Hemisphere with ease. Full Stop.”
This insane hobby-horse (or idee fixe, choose your metaphor) dates back far more than 120 years, probably 3x that long, and originates in British Colonial phobias about Russia and “the East” generally. Halford John Mackinder developed this lunacy & published it almost exactly 120 years ago, but it had a long pre-natal development among arrogant Imperial gits in Asia. (Gits and twits, upper-class British twits, like the Monty Python sketch.) See here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History
and the delightful childish fantasy of being Alexander Magnus from this Mackinder thought bubble:
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
who rules the World-Island commands the world.
— Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, p. 106
It’s like the nerds who came up with Superman, a power fantasy of losers in Mom’s Basement. I will become King of the World with one simple trick . . .
I agree with many of the corrections, appreciate bruce w’s the most– I also agree that the last time there were moderately sane people in the DoD/ Department of War was under Bush Senior. It’s all been Rovian “We create our own reality” bullshit since then.
By coincidence I was listening to Chapo Trap House who had NatSec expert Dereck Davison slightly before responding. Davison shared a Biden admin folly just revealed by Time magazine, in detail. Special Forces sent to a N. Korea beach to install a listening device, a small boat comes by so they immediately murder everyone on board, then pierce their lungs so they can dump the corpses in the ocean to be sure they sink. The losers evidently ran away without planting the device as well, so just wanton slaughter for no gain. Some people (L&S?) might be proud of this carnage, most of us shouldn’t.
different clue
Trump is not alone in all this. Trump is just the tip of the shitberg. Obviously from his own position of power he can do a lot of arson and looting all on his own. And his family’s own.
Here is a little video-bit from the “law” subreddit, titled: ” Mike Johnson: “Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced.” Mike Johnson is a Christianazi SatanoFascist. Part of losing friends and making enemies will come from the Christianazi SatanoFascist movement’s success in turning America into the Gilead Republic of Christianazi SatanoFascistan. Which overseas country or people would want to be friends with that? Or even exposed to it?
Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ncm9c2/mike_johnson_yield_man_let_the_troops_come_into/
And here is a comment from that link’s thread which is so good and so exactly on point that I decided to copy-paste it here, if that is permitted. It offers a reason for at least looking at ” the rest of the shitberg” and not just looking at the tippy-trump above the waterline. And here it is . . .
” Petrychorr
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Mike Johnson is a Christofascist Eugenecist.
Steve Miller is a/an (apparently Jewish?) Christofascist-supporting Eugenecist.
The Heritage Foundation is funding Christofascist Eugenics.
None of this is legal.
Please remember the real enemy/enemies that Trump is the face for.
ETA: 9 Christofascists and an average Joe are sitting at a table. How many Christofascists are there? Come on, you know how this one goes y’all.
ETA2: See, y’all knew it well enough to correct me on it lol.
ETA3: The distinction between “real” Christian values and “fake” Christian values is of very little import. A large and wealthy organization is using Christianity as an excuse to do and say horrible things to minorities and “others.”
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different clue
Americans who wish to roll back the Conservative Revolution will have to come up with positive attempts as well as negative attempts. Both would be needed.
Here is a positive attempt in a single American state. If it works and sticks, it will be more than just an attempt. Here is a little posting-article about it: ” New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free “. Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ncuh2y/new_mexico_will_be_the_first_state_to_make_child/
That seems like a positive thing to me. Maybe the people behind that and people in other Blue states who admire it could get together to start rolling it out in other Blue states. Maybe they could study how the Koch Brothers and the Libertarian Conspiracy created ALEC to create model Red Shithole legislation and get it passed in state after state after state. ALEC stands for American Legislative Exchange Council.
Here is its auto-fellating website. https://alec.org/
Blue state Freedomericans could study how ALEC diddit and does it, and do the same in the opposite direction within their states. They could call it BlueLEC, for Blue Legislative Exchange Council. Or BlueSLEC, for Blue States Legislative Exchange Council. That’s an example of a positive thing.
Here is an example of another Nazi Trump negative thing which Blue Freedomericans could try preparing to oppose pre-emptively by organizing broadly enough and hard enough with a hard hitting negative response.
First, the Nazi Trump Thing: ” Trump’s musings on ‘very large faucet’ in Canada part of looming water crisis, say researchers “. Here is the link.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/donald-trump-water-canada-peter-lougheed-1.7459583
And here is the possible hard-hitting internal pre-emptive response from within America itself. ( Yeah, I know . . . in my dreams . . . ) What if a hundred million Blue Freedomericans learned all about this and pledged in advance ( and meant it to ) that they will boycott any food grown in any state which recieves any Canadian water?
If a hundred million Blue Freedomericans actually pledged that and were actually ready to do that, it might turn “Canadian water” into such a poison pill for the maganazi farmers who hope to recieve that water that they would be afraid to accept it. And that could make it “not even pay” to “even make the attempt” for Maganazi Leader Trump to take the water.
That kind of thing could be done. But it would require removing several decades of very deeply implanted and very thoroughly taught Learned Helplessness on the part of people who could do this if they only believed that they actually could do this. It would also require Blue Freedomericans understanding that the Maganazi Christianazi Red State Shitholestanis really are the enemy and must be utterly crushed before they utterly crush the Blue Freedomerican states. Are Blue Freedomericans ready to accept that and act on it? Are they ready to overcome and set aside decades of Ethical Subhumanist Kumbaya Liberalism?
different clue
I have a very sincerely intended and entirely straight-faced question.
If Great Eurasia becomes one great big bloc/Empire/Union or whatever else it becomes, how does that threaten American sovereignty? What is the detailed nature of that threat? What is the mechanism?
different clue
Here is a CringeTikTok titled: ” This Trump supporter seems genuinely shocked that Democrats have no sympathy for Republican farmers who voted against their own self-interests ” Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1nd1d3a/this_trump_supporter_seems_genuinely_shocked_that/
It is not just that farmers for Trump voted against ” their own interests”. They voted against MY interests. They voted against my MERE surVIVal. So no. They do not deserve any farmer welfare and they should not get any. And if they all go bankrupt and Big Investa gets their land, that much more concentrated ownership just makes it easy in theory to expropriate all that Big Corporate Player-owned land if America ever goes Communist.
And as a Black American content creator said in a whole other TikTok, if enough White Maganazi farmers for Trump lose their land, that might give Black farmers and/or Black wannabe farmers a chance to swoop in and buy some for the first time in over a hundred years.
So it isn’t just “Democrats” hoping these people get exactly what they voted for. It is also Black people in their millions.
These farmers really did lose friends and make enemies with their antiAmerican racist voting patterns.
Non-Maga food buyers should work out a way very quickly to find and identify any non-Maga farmers for non-Trump and figure out how to buy their product so as to keep them in business. That’s the spirit in which Blue Counteroffensives against Maga Aggression should be waged, if possible. That would be “using the butcher’s cleaver” as Colonel Pat Lang very occasionally wrote about in totally other contexts at his blog Sic Semper Tyrannis so long ago.
different clue
And here is another opportunity for butcher’s cleaver thinking. A little snorkblot subreddit post comments about the 64% of Arkansas farmers who voted for Trump wanting welfare now. But thinking deeper than the poster of this post was thinking, that means that if 64% of Arkansas farmers voted for Trump, then the other 36% of Arkansas farmers did NOT vote for Trump.
How could a counter-maga movement organize itself and scale itself up quickly enough to raise funds itself if necessary to support that 36% of Arkansas farmers who did NOT vote for Trump and who are NOT the enemy? What if all the Small Bernie Donors got the band back together all on their own and figured out how to raise money strictly and only for the non-enemy non-antiAmerican 36% of Arkansas farmers who did NOT vote for this?
different clue
. . . oh dear . . . here is relevant link to the post mentioned just above, titled : ” They want money…… 😗”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Snorkblot/comments/1ncycvt/they_want_money/
Carborundum
Well Bruce, all I can tell you is that I didn’t previously think I would spend my Heineken years shooting your countrymen in the face to preserve my nation’s sovereignty. Now I think there’s a small but real chance it might come to that.