This letter has gotten lot of trashing, but it is quite clear eyed when it interprets history.
“This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology and the United States hasn't had that before,” Accurate, for when the world hegemon changed from UK to USA that was a transfer within the family.
“The Soviet Union and that competition, in a way it was a fight within the Western family,” Indeed, Marx's Capital is commentary on Ricardo and Communism isn't incompatible with the liberal tradition, as much as it is just logical end point of universalism embedded in liberal tradition.
"I think we have to take the rose-colored glasses off and get real about the nature of the threat. And, I think we also have to give a kind of respect for, I think, what the Chinese seek to accomplish." Americans never ask why countries prefer to work with China instead-of-not. That is a blindspot in American politics. China is a giant hole in the liberal world police state, and offers alternative (instead of U.S.) for other countries to work with. The Americans should ask, why, if China is so evil?
they are flat out admitting to an on-going information (fake news?) war? And that while they could always fight with russia they have no clue how to impact china?
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 12.5 ms ] thread“This is a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology and the United States hasn't had that before,” Accurate, for when the world hegemon changed from UK to USA that was a transfer within the family.
“The Soviet Union and that competition, in a way it was a fight within the Western family,” Indeed, Marx's Capital is commentary on Ricardo and Communism isn't incompatible with the liberal tradition, as much as it is just logical end point of universalism embedded in liberal tradition.
"I think we have to take the rose-colored glasses off and get real about the nature of the threat. And, I think we also have to give a kind of respect for, I think, what the Chinese seek to accomplish." Americans never ask why countries prefer to work with China instead-of-not. That is a blindspot in American politics. China is a giant hole in the liberal world police state, and offers alternative (instead of U.S.) for other countries to work with. The Americans should ask, why, if China is so evil?