https://tomluongo.me/2022/09/29/the-curious-whodunit-of-nordstreams-1-and-2/
interested in your thoughts/criticism
* If the CIA saw the need, saw the weakness, and the director at the Russia Desk approved a black-op, then technically no one authorized such an attack.
* If Davos has sympathetic operatives in any part of the US Intelligence Community then there are far bigger problems than a pipeline to be concerned about, because Davos' plan isn't to hang the US out to dry -- it's to take the US down with them at the slightest hint of anything less than totalitarian success.
But past that point we come to agreement again. Past that point, it's an act of war; not necessarily by the US but a cheque which can only be signed by the US as it were. "The mouth writing cheques that the ass can't cash."
There's a lot in here worth reading though for everyone; it ties a lot of the geopol together quite nicely for those seeing it as a two-player game. Even I've made that mistake at times.
> If the CIA saw the need, saw the weakness, and the director at the Russia Desk approved a black-op, then technically no one authorized such an attack.
Perhaps, I suspect those sorts of bureaucratic boundaries are far more permeable than that.
I still struggle with the overarching Davos narrative tbh, even though I agree with the broad strokes. Don't buy they're that competent/united.
Not that the decision makers aren't competent generally, just that I don't see the genius level competency required to navigate something as complex as this.
I like Luongo generally though, he has an eye for details.
@7 geeze, ok galaxy brain
@7 appreciate the effort
yeah I'm more inclined to believe there's a running together of various forms of conspiracy and an emergent behaviour of actors protecting their vested interests.
the other side of the arguement is that there is historical precedent for serious conspiracy, the first and second triumverates come to mind, but they were about domination of a centralised ruling City, not the level of decentralisation and conflicting/coupled interests we see today.
Bismark/Metternich come close but both were characterised not only by diplomatic/politcal genius but also being at the mercy of political circumstance, even as they rode that wave
@7 good luck, europeans like to fight too much
@7 you're too kind, although you really shouldn't encourage us
@7 @roboneko https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2685
I've read Dreamer's Tales, very nice
I was thinking it might be about technological ability to create, control and enforce groups. As in, it's not the radio tower, but the radio stations and the MSM media in general which resulted in the creation of MSMrace. Which is a captive audience, complete with its feedback mechanisms and all, completely reliant to the MSM-industrial complex. And of course accompanied with various control mechanisms (physical and mental).
The ability of the internet to create globe spanning hyperealities along with the potential of increased surveilance that the modern tech provides are the true, let's call them, key performance indicators. Still there are counterbalances such as social media fragmentation and privacy protecting legislation.
I read a geopolitics book about a year ago where the author (Philip Roeder) used a concept he called "political identity hegemony" which meant that some kind of power (local elites, the church, whoever) can choose a particular identity as dominant it its physical jurisdiction (or prevent others from choosing one).
@7 on a level, although Europeans don't have the same instinct for liberty that many Americans do, their cultures are too grounded and heterogeneous to truly integrate
could be wishful thinking on my part but without a common language it's hard to see anyone who hasn't graduated from university to really get with the federal EU vibe
@7 which, of course, is why everyone is so excited about "education, education, education...."
servile arts, not liberal
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@11112011 @7 perhaps, I don't have to be happy about it, nor take the knee because a yellow pirate talks smack
sure, plenty of people like the movement toward a federal EU and the way it's going, and I can see their perspective.
at the same time , what does it get anyone other than greater power for those at the top? people were distrustful of the elites before covid and have become much worse since then
maybe the future of the human race is kowtowing to ESG scores cooked up by von der Leyen and Fink, you're right to say that there is great historical precedent of money running the world. But money is blind and sterile and those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.
I bring it up because I wonder about what you're saying regarding the level of decentralization. A European superstate would be completely capable of tracking 80% of its citizens via phone, and keep them engaged and "correctly-informed" through that little bit of cyberpop; with the right language they could move to a more Chinese system with European Characteristics very easily. I don't know that they need a great European philosopher if they can buy one from the Chinese -- they don't seem to play by the same rules as previous inheritors of Rome.