The United State is many times more anti-American and conspiratorial than any of us—and I mean this literally—could ever imagine.

Miscellanea: The War in Iran

In which he repeats “teh People are ekshully American sympathizers, Regime is Sauron” meme once more.

The problem with acoup.blog is that Devereaux definitely can research and think for himself… right until the moment any subject touches some tripwire of MiniTru (be it $CURRENT_THING or cone-sensus of Marxism academia). Then he twitches, goes into full glass-eyed «Yes – Dnyarri – I – wish – to – know – about – flowers» zombie mode and remains in it.

Of the Current Thing, see for example this: Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine.

The whole package, pope-of-the-world attitude, eye-watering amount of democratically democratickled democracy* and even occasional strawman. Plus a fine collection of clown memes, from same old “Teh People everywhere are ekshully loyal NPR Americans in funny hats” to “no-fly zone” (though at least without “durr lebensraum”). On the upside, he gives nice links, including some to the hivemind components far upstream of Cloaka Maxima (like @ ProfTalmadge).

As to the Marxism academia, since it’s all-consuming, its poison pops up randomly even when talking about ancient India. Which makes his musing on any subject not already familiar to the reader rather untrustworthy.

* (as Pelevin noted, it’s not even a misuse, but a full homonym, in meaning #2 derived from “demo version”)

Bob Sykes says:

The Epsteins who run the US have condemned the world to a Second Great Depression and mass famine. Welcome to the new Russo-Chinese Empire.

Hilarious as this image may be, you miss the internal tensions of hegemony: general “deep” oligarchs vs neocons vs theocracy. The former is indeed remarkably degenerate, the second dangerously stupid, but antinomian theocratic plague remains the greatest long term threat to everyone.

I guess I am more impressed with Iran’s regional rocketry than the author.

” disruption of fertilizer production,… has the potential to raise food prices globally. Higher global food prices … are pretty strongly associated with political instability in less developed countries. …. A spike in food prices was one of the core causes of the 2010 Arab Spring which led in turn to the Syrian Civil War, the refugee crisis of which significantly altered the political landscape of Europe.”

We could see five years of global economic disruption.

One wonders what the Israelis plan on doing as the walls close in, and I can’t say I relish the prospect.