There are numerous factors that can go into what makes empires rise or fall or nations grow or decline in power, wealth, and influence vis-a-vis other nations, and it is not my goal here to discuss all of them; rather, what I hope to do is focus on just two of the biggest and most […]
Russia is winning, Zelenskyy is on the outside looking in, Ukraine will have to cede territory, and “as Graham and his fellow neoconservatives have long admitted, the US “investment” in Ukraine was never about preventing Russian control of the Donbas, but about using the conflict over that territory to kill Russians and weaken their government.” […]
For a new-born state, the quest for identity means a relentless struggle against a rival victimhood. This can be called a pursuit of “negative identity,” requiring the demonization of the Other and a quasi-necrophiliac fixation on its own dead rather than its own living. No people or nation willingly cedes its dead to the competing […]
‘Hazony’s racist/ racialist “border” to the “National Conservativism” that he proposes for Americans is completely hypocritical. Israel is an ethnostate. Why should the U.S. not be a white ethnostate, as it was implicitly until the 1965 Immigration Act? “It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Hazony’s National Conservative operation is an extreme Zionist Gatekeepers Ball, […]
It still seems like magic to me. With three weights and a simple set of scales, you can weigh objects in one-pound steps up to 13 pounds (or kilos or whatever). With four weights, you can weigh up to 40 pounds. And with five weights, up to 121 pounds. That’s a lot of bang for […]
“Israeli dual-citizen and civic nationalist Yoram Hazony stated that the National Conservatism platform opposes White racialism, citing VDARE as an example of the kind of racialist thinking his movement rejects.” Peter Brimelow X account @PeterBrimelow “Hazony wants to deny the American nation’s ethnic core but won’t mention Israel’s (Right of Return, Judaism’s matrilineality etc.) Can he really […]
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