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…….new Tri-Polar World power structure. Are you In or Out?

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What a load of nonsense.

Age quod agis.

Seems like an on-target opinion piece to me.

China, the Globalists, and the Populists?

Populism isn't an ideology.

Globalism is an ideology, but nobody goes around identifying as a globalist, do they?

It's not clear that China has many friends, just scared neighbors.

Attention Citizens!
We are now at war with Eastasia.
All hail our new allie, Eurasia!

Um Zephyr1, have we always been at war with Eastasia?

The next 25 years are pretty predictable.

America will do what it always does when it gets a chance. It will turn inward.

Russia will do what it always does. Exhaust itself trying to aggrandize itself by territorial expansion.

China will do what it always does. It will try to assert its "greatness" by asserting its power over its perceived exploiters/oppressors.

China will succeed in the short term, but will alienate the world order and become a pariah. Unable to import what it needs to function, its commercial profile will implode. No one will buy their goods. Their demographic contraction will negate any hope for domestic consumption. It is trapped by its geography, unable to expand on land with insufficient naval power to expand over the water. Unable to import fertilizer it won't be able to feed itself. Imagine China ca. 1960. Isolated. Starving. Furious, with no one to blame but itself. It's huge army will come in handy, enforcing domestic stability.

Russia will fail. Ukraine can't convert the conflict to a war of maneuver which is the only path for them to victory, but they can hold the Russians to a static bloodbath. With their drones they can cripple the Russian logistical train. It doesn't take too many days of no food showing up at the depot before Anatoly gets itchy feet. A trickle becomes a wave, then a torrent.. Putin better not hope his security police can stem that tide. He's still dreaming he can take Ukraine, Poland and the Balkans. He's whacked. Somebody will topple him. Sadly, his replacement will be as bad or worse. Russia will become a nuclear armed failed state. The west will have to bribe them not to go nuts.

America will cultivate a club of advantageous allies. UK. AUS, NZ, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan (if available), Canada and Mexico, once it gets its head out of its bum. It will organize a cushy cocoon of self satisfied apathy, until…

Some planetary emergency upends everything. TV spots of starving refugee children in Outer North Whereverland tugging on our heartstrings compelling us to do what we always end up doing. Mobilizing a world redefining effort to interfere for good.

The rest of the world will be left to fend for themselves. The EU will end with a whimper, while NATO ramps up. Brazil and India will do OK on their own. The Sunnis and Israel will ally against Iran.

The wild cards are the 3 aged, mercurial, out of touch authoritarian knobs, convinced of their own greatness and obsessed with their legacy, sitting atop nuclear arsenals, who could wind up doing anything.

May we live in interesting times.

@ HMS Exeter

Firstly, I think your summary is inspired.

Secondly, I hope you're right (apart from the fear of the actions of the three knobs).

Thirdly, could you secure a position on some news network so I can listen to you as an antidote to some of the, shall we say,less informed "pundits".

Drivel….

Voices to heed

Peter Ziehan
Scott Galloway
Julia Ioffe (hard to come by anymore)
Nicholas Eberstadt

With luck the US knob won't invade Mattel

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Sounds like the author has been swilling way too much apple cider vinegar (sold at the bottom of the page). He draws conclusions with absolutely no basis for his findings. Moreover, his statements about Trump indicate that there is some method to the madness.

Peter Ziehan

He's interesting, but he's also an Establishment Intel resource, so take his opinions with a few grains of salt.

"Globalism is an ideology, but nobody goes around identifying as a globalist, do they?"

Yes, a large number. Usually they say, "I'm a citizen of the world" or some such. Usually these people are amongst the western intelligencia.

The idea that the world is tri-polar may have some credence. I'm going to have to think on it a bit.

Bi-polar explains more than tri-polar.

The "intelligencia" (sic) really do this? Sounds more like what a first year Uni student might say to impress a girl.

identifying the Bi-Polar world

That was the pre-Keynes boom-bust world, I think. We may now be in the world of delusional disorder.

LoL

My neighbor calls herself a citizen of the world. I pretty sure she believes in open borders and let anyone in.

Is she a member of the "intelligencia"? Maybe she can spell it?

Trump is fighting for peace. After years of combat Ukraine and Russia are talking peace. India and Pakistan were at the edge of nuclear war and after a day of negotiations are at peace again. Trump is bringing many Middle Eastern nations closer to peace, as in his first term when four nations signed peace deals with Israel.

Trump says outrageous things to Canada because Canada has finally agreed to meet it's 2% GDP obligation to NATO in 2032. After 4 years of war with Russia and Ukraine and China looking for bases all over the New World, Canada is still relying on the US to protect them.

Greenland has no standing army or militia, Denmark has no significant navy patrol boats guarding the coast of Greenland. Only since Trump announced taking them as the 52nd state did Denmark step up and start to improve defenses.

If the US has to defend Greenland and Canada because they can't be bothered to spend the money, then why not have them become the 51st and 52nd states? Since we are spending to defend them.

The GDP for the world is $100 USD Trillion. The US is $37 USD Trillion in debt. That will kill us and the West unless something drastic is done, we pay more for debt service than we do for defense.

Trump is doing something, resetting trade imbalances with other nations and trying to bring peace so we don't have to pay to defend the world. It is not crazy, it's common sense.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek

Bunk +1

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The next 25 years are pretty predictable.

Won't really matter most of us will be dead anyway … ☠👻

Bunkermaster, where to start?

There are more seals in Greenland than people? But they do have the EU & NATO – if needed.
China & Russia have the *same* interest in Greenland that the US has – eg it wants to exploit its natural riches. Don't pretend to be altruistic. No one is buying that.

51st state my…. No one in Geenland or Canada wants to be American. Are they going to "sign up" for the health benefits that Americans get??? Or Veteran's benefits? You're advocating "invade them to save them"? Hmm, now where in C20th history have I heard that line?

The Tariff War was ill considered, ill aimed & a total failure?
Possibly the biggest blow to US power since Pearl Harbour.And self-inflicted. The Humanity!

Should the world pay the US for the American debt problem? Wow.

And "fighting for peace"? Oxymoron mean anything to you? Be good to see some sort of evidence of the claims you make.
" Trump said Friday that the United States could walk away from the negotiating table to end the Russia-Ukraine war"

Just because you write this rubbish does not make any of it true.

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As I understand citizenship rules, the citizens of Greenland would not automatically become USA citizens. Only children born after the annexing of Greenland or any part of Canada would be US citizens. Older folks would remain what they are but could apply for citizenship.
When I was stationed at VII Corps HQ in Germany, I felt I was there to protect German and our freedom.
I agree about how written rubbish is not always true.

"There are more seals in Greenland than people? But they do have the EU & NATO"

The same EU and NATO that aren't meeting their defense obligations under the NATO treaty? Does the UK have planes for their carriers yet? They have more horses than tanks in their army. They can barely keep one submarine on deployment right now. Russia isn't the only paper tiger.

Navy Seals? 🤔

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There are more seals in Greenland than people? But they do have the EU & NATO – if needed.
China & Russia have the *same* interest in Greenland that the US has – eg it wants to exploit its natural riches. Don't pretend to be altruistic. No one is buying that.

51st state my…. No one in Geenland or Canada wants to be American.

LOL! All Trump has done is trash and troll talk in order to call attention to the issue of Greenland and set the stage for more favorable terms to the US. The result of nothing but TALK and no action? Greenland has elected a pro-Independence Parliament that is talking separation from Denmark, which is freaking out and stepping up their social and defense commitments after decades of neglect. Plus Trump has gained valuable real estate in the heads of every Western Progressive.

The Tariff War was ill considered, ill aimed & a total failure?
Possibly the biggest blow to US power since Pearl Harbour.And self-inflicted. The Humanity!

You must be reading different news than I am -- I see scores of countries in negotiations for reciprocal low tariffs, including a major deal with India. China took a far worse beating than the US did, and now maybe there's a deal happening there also-- though I expect the CCP will break any deal and the tariffs will be back in force, and at least we have some breathing room to continue diversifying our supply chain and manufacturing base.

Should the world pay the US for the American debt problem? Wow.

True that, but each nation acts in their own interests – usually. The Democrats forgot that and pursued ideology and personal wealth, now we have a President who wants to revitalize the nation and address US needs. I think something remarkable about Trump is that he realizes America is a very powerful nation, and is not embarrassed to say so or to use that power to help the citizenry. How refreshing!

And "fighting for peace"? Oxymoron mean anything to you? Be good to see some sort of evidence of the claims you make.
" Trump said Friday that the United States could walk away from the negotiating table to end the Russia-Ukraine war"

Who else is actually pushing for peace? NOBODY! You're content to let the bloody fruitless destabilizing costly war in Ukraine continue 'cause OrangeManBad? Should India and Pakistan have escalated into all out war because you don't like OrangeManBad? Are you against a more stable MiddleEast with Israel and multiple Arab states co-existing within a renewed Abraham Accords 'cause OrangeManBad?

SB +1

Besides! If India and Pakistan go nuke, what will happen to "Craig" and the rest of Tech Support!? 😉

Yes, the tariffs were ill considered. People lost money and a select few made a bundle in the stock market. Yes SB, I did look up some stock trading by politicians, confirming that both sides are insider masters. That's America. Now that tariffs have been backed down its hard to tell how rosy the picture is going forward for the US.

As for Gateway Pundit….apparently no grammar editor at the GP, but this guy is also not supporting his arguments very well. It's a weird article. I am not ready to worship a POTUS as he does, but that's what GP is for, I guess.

There is a case to be made for open borders.

I love trolling my conservative friends by mockingly deriding the small government argument that governments just make a mess of things, and it'd be better to step back and "let the market sort it out."

Inevitably, one of them will rise to the bait and argue the wisdom of allowing markets to organically solve problems. That's when I spring the gotcha, saying I agree completely. Then point out that the pressure of migrants trying to enter the country IS the market TRYING to sort it out, with government walls and patrols being the government's unnatural interference to their sacred equilibrium.

People from Central America are trying to come to the US for work. (We have had a net loss of Mexicans coming to the US for some time now) the Centrals have been coming because their countries have become what a US politician lately referred to as "s**tholes," in no small part thanks to us.

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Work opportunities in Central America are pathetic, so their residents are, quite naturally, being drawn to our "shining city on the hill." At least they still see us that way.

There are those who argue they are "takin' ur jahbs." (Insert South Park redneck inflection) But, being undocumented, they are limited to the lowest rungs of the employment ladder. Who among us wants to mow lawns, pick produce, do roofing, work in slaughter houses, or ghost outside Home Depot hoping that 3 hours of day labor finds us before L'immigracion does. Try getting a Gen Z to put on a pair of work gloves. Even the crustiest ex Auto Worker would prefer to keep their job as a Walmart greeter than pick up a shovel.

Mexico is well along on the road to 21st Century industrialization. In time they will have a net need for more labor and the market will absorb the migrants there.
That is a day to be dreaded.

Even before the tarrif kerfuffle, America was busily reshoring manufacturing from China. 2018 was the all time record high for US manufacturing output, but what had once been high paying US factory jobs for humans are now being done by R2D2.

In Texas a textile company discovered they could afford to build a new factory which could affordably operate fully automated with only 2 employees. I doubt anyone crossing the Rio Grande will be trained up to work either of those jahbs. Maybe some of the newly arrived Afrikaaners are tech engineers.

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We're in the midst of a wholesale factory building boom, accelerated by the tarrif pressures. When they're done we'll need lots of people to work in them. And this is before we address the required expansion of our power grid, complicated by the enforced dormancy of the Green Transition.

Our unemployment rate is hovering just under 5%. Even after the longshoreman, trucker, warehouseman, Amazon driver, retail clerk job losses ripple thru the economy we're likely to be up against a serious labor shortage problem.

And here we are, frantically, haphazardly, in many cases, thoughtlessly, in some cases illegally, rounding up and expelling precisely the people who we will wind up needing.

Note that I think that textile article was written by AI.

We've all heard the Midwest farmers FAFOing over their undocumented employees disappearing, leaving them unable to find replacements, now eyeball to eyeball with bankruptcy.

I saw an interview with an Alabama celery grower who said the whole migrant could be solved easily. All that was required was for everyone to stop eating.

Central America is currently experiencing the same demographic contraction in birthrates as everywhere else. In 20 years they'll have fewer people to even want to come here.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US have a magic gift. Sweden and Finland are trying, but they're awfully new at it and it may be hard for them to get the magic to fully work over the long term.

The first 4 countries do magic. They can take a family of 4 from anywhere land and put them in a drawer. When they come back 10 years later they open the drawer and the foreigners are gone. In their place are 4 natives, fully assimilated and ready to take their places in society.

Dad has a stable job. He paints his face and goes to the games on Sunday. Mom bakes for the PTA and works afternoons as a crossing guard. Daughter is the valedictorian. Son is JROTC.

These are all nations of immigrants. Their proven capacity to integrate them is their SUPERPOWER. I still don't understand how we were never able to turn even one of the 9/11 moles.

Yet we in America PERSIST on considering our Superpower as some kind of weakness. Some kind of namby pamby folly. Welcome the jahb stealers. Welcome the gimmegrants.

We have spent 2 generations painting these people as rapists and murderers, gang members and union busters. They have become "the enemy." Is it me or do a lot of the ICE teams we see in the news look like rent-a-cops and whacko militia types. Who are we deputising anyway?

Stephen Miller? American patriot or love child of Roger Stone and Mr. Burns? Tonight, on the Discovery Channel.

But the cold hard reality is that we are going to need more Americans, and soon. Musk is right about one thing. We need to get to making more babies. We can't leave it to him to do all the humping.

We need to cultivate some sanity about immigration, and right quick.

In 1970, Pogo nailed it.

"We have met the enemy, and they is us."

And, as my mother would say,

"Biting our own nose off to spite our face."

Musk is right about one thing. We need to get to making more babies. We can't leave it to him to do all the humping.

Here's a thought -- if we hadn't funded mass abortions via Planned Parenthood, the US population would be larger by 70 MILLION (including another 20 million black Americans). So if you want babies, maybe stop pushing and promoting abortion on demand???

Open borders makes no sense. Nor does closed borders. Someday Congress may resume functioning. Someday a new system of immigration management may arise. The tarp we have thrown over the Statue of Liberty can be removed. The reverse brain drain which has begun will end and America will be the mountaintop. But not with the current divisions.

HMS Exeter +1; nice to read some common sense on here!

In the movie Andromeda Strain a government lab is trying to cope with a microscopic extraterrestrial organism threatening to grow out of control and imperil all life on earth. They task their computer with trying to predict what is going to happen. It comes back with Code 601, meaning the system is paralyzed from being overloaded by the amount of info it's trying to handle.

I keep waiting for the American legal system to go Code 601 with so many lawsuits, countersuits, cross complaints and appeals going on that the whole system grid locks. Not enough courts. Not enough judges. Not enough lawyers, and not enough hours in the day. Most of it involving various parts of the state and federal governments trying to claw each other's eyes out.

Here's a thought – If you don't have a womb, your opinions on abortion are absolutely irrelevant.

Noggin, by your logic, if you are not from the U.S., you have no right to comment on it.

A man has as much right to comment on baby killing as does a woman. It's not just for the pro-death lobby. Nor is it irrelevant, we all have a vote.

SB +1

No, you don't have a "vote" on abortion. You can make a comment and have an opinion, but if it's not your womb that the foetus is developing in, you have absolutely no say in deciding what happens.
BTW, my country of origin is also irrelevant in this matter.

Noggin, sorry. Whether you agree or not, I do. Death is death. Doesn't matter if it is from a bullet to an adult, a drill through the head of baby just as the head crowns or the dismemberment inside the womb. What is being murdered is not a non viable sack of flesh.

But the Maya, Aztec and other cultures agreed with you.

Also my point with your country, was pointing out how the logic of your comment about men could be used against you.

Someday a new system of immigration management may arise. The tarp we have thrown over the Statue of Liberty can be removed

The system worked perfectly fine until a coalition of Democrat and Republican politicians and businesses collaborated to throw the borders open to 1) Import cheap slave laborers to replace more expensive lawful workers in field and factory, and 2) to import a new dependent underclass that can be counted in the US Census for more Congressional seats and whom they can farm for votes while controlling them with welfare and appeals to racial victim politics.

Immigration is supposed to be a net benefit when the nation NEEDS more workers. And when that need is filled, we need to, as we have in the past, restrict immigration or even "close the doors" as we did after the great East European diaspora to give society a chance to assimilate and accommodate the new comers.

And that's what we need to do now. Enforce the many laws on the books against not just illegal aliens but the people and companies who hire them and traffic them, stop or greatly slow even lawful immigration for some time period while also blocking attempts to use non-citizens for political purposes.

The reverse brain drain which has begun will end and America will be the mountaintop

Where? Where are the American "brains" fleeing to? I don't see a brain drain of productive and innovative Americans fleeing anywhere.

SB +1

Don't forget they want to legalize them as well. That is why they fight any attempt to return them with every judge they have. Criminal or not. Just hold the deportations off until 26 or 28 and then….. That is their ultimate aim.

"Make them dependent on us and our handouts and then, all those millions of votes for our party!! We'll rule forever! " 💦 💭

Additional legalized immigration and temporary visas would have handled the farm labor and whatever other labor might have been necessary. Then get the generations of coddled leaches off their computers and out of their parent's basements and put a lawnmower and rake in their hands. "Work or else!". We had to do it. That and fast food or other low end jobs, to earn money for spending, car insurance, gasoline, dating, etc.

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There are a whole bunch of these if you google reverse brain drain. This may cause the US brain shortage to become acute! 😳

Any nation that does not control is borders become open to a number of problems, etc.

It comes down to national defense plus logistics. Anyone who crosses the border has to be thoroughly vetted.

Anyone who comes here cannot be a burden or threat to the population.

They should not take assets away from citizens who could use those assets.

The enemy took full advantage of the previous open border policies and initiatives sanctioned, supported, and cheered for by the last admin …

OVI +1

SBm +1

In 1970, Pogo nailed it.

"We have met the enemy, and they is us."

I remembered and have quoted that many times. But IMO and many others, the enemy is generally not "we the people". But many of the elected and appointed officials. Who forget they work for us. And become very rich while they should be working for us …

Every illegal alien either works a job an American should do, lives off of welfare or lives off of crime, or a combination of the three.
We can import all the labor we want, legally, we don't need gang members and unskilled people coming here bringing crime, disease and drugs with them.
Last four years 250,000 Americans died of Fentanyl overdose, it all comes from China. Asymmetrical warfare.
Abortion ends an innocent human life. We all have a moral obligation to stand up for the most vulnerable in our society and no one is more vulnerable than a child in the womb. Abortion is totally preventable.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek

There are a whole bunch of these if you google reverse brain drain. This may cause the US brain shortage to become acute!

It is interesting that your article shows some presumed scientists hold up a banner applauding Socialism. The sad truth is that the Academic Establishment has been captured by the left and is a SOURCE of anti-intellectual and anti-Scientific views and lessening of trust by MUCH of the public, not just the "right wing" as identified in the article.

The doctor in question, great work on squids, but what I can find of her politics is that she seems to be an establishment progressive who has called "right wingers" as anti-intellectual and anti-Scientific. So she conflates the skepticism caused by the Academic and Scientific establishments' own actions with being against science and education. No, people are against the rigid anti-intellectual dogmatism of schools like Harvard that harbor violent antisemitic and anti-American faculty and students, and people are against the kind of agenda-serving politicized science we endured during Covid.

So what a pity her department may have to open up to other points of view. What a pity that a student whose dissertation is something like "Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, in the impact on Social Justice in the Pacific Ecosystem" or some such may have trouble finding a faculty position…but then, that's not Trump's fault. That's HER fault for not improving an ossified university tenure system that locks all but the most inside connected and politically correct doctoral students out of positions, and for encouraging or allowing bullsh!t3 dissertations or lines of research to chase grant money.

And it's WORSE in Europe! And, heaven forbid, maybe they could also, I dunno, apply their STEM educations to the private sector.

So forgive me if I don't consider 400 or so progressive STEM candidates from a population of 1.5 MILLION Junior College to Post-Graduate professors in the US to be much of a "brain drain."

SB +1

Bunk & SBm +1/each …

A few dozen "scientists" equals a Brain Drain?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHHAAA? Dear Editor/Moderator is running a comedy skit website now, right? Best joke I've heard all week!

There are enough PHD and MA holders in the United States to backfill almost every single professorship in the US…5 or 10 times over; there are over 20 million MA holders and over 4.5 million PHD holders in the US today. In other words, absolutely no shortage of people able to take those jobs (as long as they meet the right racial, gender and political criteria, of course). OMG I'm laughing still….

Please, PLEASE, I BEG the overwhelmingly non-productive university intelligencia: LEAVE, GO NOW!

The modern university system in many US centers of higher learning is a disturbingly racist, genderist (can I create that word?) craven jobs program for an intellectually bankrupt cess poll of Marxist group think. The mass exodus of the current professor class in the US would be the catalyst for one of biggest explosions of novel and challenging intellectual thought, science and productivity in Western history since the Enlightenment.

Imagine 1.5 million professors who ACTUALLY WORKED REAL JOBS teaching the next generation? 1.5 million professors who actually know what it is to deal with criminal mass migration, who know what it is to have tax payer dollars stolen to pay for votes, who know what its like to actually PRODUCE goods and services in a competitive market? People who don't live in gated communities and know what happens in the real world and pay the price for Marxist feel good racism, discrimination and bankrupt crony capitalism?

On to the next:

Unfortunately HMS Exeter I must ask you to find better "conservative" friends, if they can't spot the argument you make as the same, tired, straw man that the left in the US has been making for years to justify mass immigration: "jobs Americans just won't do!" they are a sad lot indeed. All those farms in the mid West and California that made the US the greatest food producer in human history? The backs of every American race and creed built that-the same people here today.

Americans did exactly those jobs for the first centuries of our existence-overwhelmingly European and African decent Americans….construction, farm work, sanitation etc…I worked those jobs in my youth and I still see Americans doing those jobs in many areas of the country today.

The low end estimate now is that anywhere from 7-10 MILLION Americans 18-65 are not working-basically the same amount of "jobs" we are short. Why? That large government you seem to think is great is a prime cause. Why would I work the fields when state and federal welfare benefits pay more? Why get a job when I can have kids out of wedlock and daddy government will just step in to pick up the tab? Those once good paying construction and garden jobs that were instrumental in building the American middle class are now gone PRECISELY due to the mass import of low wage (effectively SLAVE wage) laborers from the Third World which glutted the free market with labor, effectively destroying those jobs as single-earning living wage positions.

Okay, back to the business of this website: I'm playing Steel Rift and BLKOUT right now; I recommend them both. Oh, and the Star Wars card game Unlimited is surprisingly fun and easy to learn; I keep on losing though…need more university indoctrination (I mean learning)…

Well, you don't have to beg them, they will go or not. And I hope I won't have to call a plumber if I need my gall bladder removed. We are way short of MDs where I live out in the country. And plumbers.

I just got back from commencement at the college I coach at. I talked to some foreign students who have decided to go home. Just an anecdote, I don't really know what the impact of the right wing ideology is on science and research. But they are not certain about what is going on here for whatever reasons.

I don't hate universities or resent the advantages they confer any more than I might hate nepo kids who got their starts handed to them. 7-10 million Americans living offthe government instead of working? No wonder rich people will do anything not to pay taxes! It's an outrage….

Which way to the fields? What happened to the machines? I thought robots now have the most manufacturing jobs? Ever see them work a shipping warehouse? Incredible. Somebody in a college figured out how to do surgery with robotic instruments.
The truth is in the middle, in my opinion. Now back to seeing my Austrians wiped out by the French once again.
+1 to everybody

Maggot +1