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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022

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Inspired by a comment from Twitter;

Everyone is talking about the US relative decline, but they are really flexing his power in a way that we have not seen from Iraq

In one year they;

  • Destroyed every possible reconciliation between Europe and Russia

  • Became a next exporter of natural resources and the ones from who a lot of allies depend

  • They basically sent a fuck off to Germany, and the Germans not only are not complaining, but are applauding

  • They strongly limited the military of power of Russia with few money.

  • China is slowing her growth, and they created a ring of allies in the Pacific

  • The cultural grip on the West is becoming stronger, and the US successfully fused Neoliberalism and Leftism in a zombie ideology who is, against all odds, successfully working

  • The pro-Atlantist view have never been so strong.

I doubt that these strategies will work or be healthy in the long term, but it is incredible to see how an ill and polarized country can still do whatever it wants without any reaction.

If America really did blow up that pipeline, then the German “deep state” (if you will) is probably drafting a decade-long plan for a permanent shift away from America and toward Russia. I don’t think the German reaction will be one of a dog that obeys the master who administers punishment. This would be construed as an attack on the sovereignty of a nation, the health of the nation, and the future of the nation. 140 IQ German intelligence officers are surely going to see the event as an unforgivable attack — again, implying it was America — and not as just a short-term just punishment that they will humiliatingly endure. The economic downfall can be compared to 9/11, can it not?

I don’t think the German reaction will be one of a dog that obeys the master who administers punishment.

And given that they've done exactly that with Americans ever since 1945, pray tell, what makes you think that?

Because in 1945 the US openly threw money at the Germans, while now in 2022 they are a bad ally at best, and a polite enemy at worst.

We're a wonderful ally! Just don't expect us to, you know, participate in wars. We outgrew such barbarous practices.

No, I'm talking about the US. With Russia being the wreck it is, I don't know what the Americans really get to offer Germany.

Ah, in that case the answer is on everyone's lips lately: Gas.

Yep. Right convenient, too.

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