West's war of words cannot halt the slow, inevitable grind of Russian advances. In tandem with China, Moscow is crystallizing an emerging global order, using Western arms lack as its catalyst.
“ moral parity remains a metaphysical impossibility”.
I disagree in regard to Trump , who while he may parrot the “democracy and freedom” line for internal consumption, he doesn’t believe it , his actions are entirely transactional and rooted in a business/finance model.
The statement is however true of the Eurocrats, who apart from moral posturing about democracy, rights etc, have in actuality, little else, having lost any substantive economic or political influence. The authority for such moral posturing is also a complete delusion , un acknowledged by the rest of the world.
It is true , that abandonment of this for them is impossible, as it is all they have and are. Political and economic power always trumps(no pun intended) metaphysics, and that being so , they will go down with their metaphysical ship and vanish into the depths of forgotten history. There will be few mourners as the coffin shrouded in the EU Flag is consigned to those murky depths.
You are correct but the real question then becomes how much power Trump has to execute his metaphysical heresies? Is he powerful enough like Martin Luther to overwhelm the cathedral of US foreign policy dogma? Is he even motivated or have the attention span for such an undertaking? We will see but I think the blob will co-opt him by feeding him praise and organizing ceremonies for him.
I suspect he does not and 1 term is insufficient time. If Vance gets 2 terms after him and has the will and intent, it is possible. The tide of external events political and economic, outside of US control or influence will also assist
I agree with the thesis that Kevin has advanced. Were I to summarize it—the global order is broken; a new one is being born and yet the major actors of the receding order have yet not defined for each other and as a whole new rules as well as roles. The West is kicking and screaming whilst Eurasia (West vs Eurasia) is either kinetically fighting or mapping things out (China).
Trump remains weak, stupid and easily manipulated. Give him a bit, let the europeans get to him and promise him a statue or a girl-girl show with Melania and Brigitte Macron or something and he'll flip again.
That is certainly correct. To go further, one could analyse Trump through a Simondonian lens: his persona appears to operate like a metastable system with remarkably low internal differentiation. Lacking a rigid, individuated political core, his "position" is less a fixed point and more a temporary resolution of the most immediate external pressure.
This explains the common trope that he simply echoes the last person he spoke to. He doesn't "flip" as much as he transduces—his output is a direct restructuring based on the dominant energy in his immediate field. He isn't being "manipulated" in a classical sense, but rather his psychological mode is one of perpetual, almost neonatal, receptivity and reaction, where his identity is co-constituted in real-time by his milieu. He is a living expression of the pre-individual, where potentials remain in flux until a force actualizes them.
Ultimately, to focus on Trump's seeming incoherence is to miss the real phenomenon. A metastable system's behavior is not a property of the individual alone, but a precise gauge of the field of potentials acting upon it. His fluctuations are not a personal failure of will, but a perfect, real-time map of the tensions, disparations, and unresolved forces within the political field itself. He is less an actor than a highly sensitive medium through which the collective's unindividuated conflicts and desires become visible, actualizing momentarily in one configuration (Hawkish or Peacenik Trump) before dissolving back into the pleromatic soup of potential. The true object of study is not the figure, but the shifting ground he so perfectly and passively reflects.
“ moral parity remains a metaphysical impossibility”.
I disagree in regard to Trump , who while he may parrot the “democracy and freedom” line for internal consumption, he doesn’t believe it , his actions are entirely transactional and rooted in a business/finance model.
The statement is however true of the Eurocrats, who apart from moral posturing about democracy, rights etc, have in actuality, little else, having lost any substantive economic or political influence. The authority for such moral posturing is also a complete delusion , un acknowledged by the rest of the world.
It is true , that abandonment of this for them is impossible, as it is all they have and are. Political and economic power always trumps(no pun intended) metaphysics, and that being so , they will go down with their metaphysical ship and vanish into the depths of forgotten history. There will be few mourners as the coffin shrouded in the EU Flag is consigned to those murky depths.
You are correct but the real question then becomes how much power Trump has to execute his metaphysical heresies? Is he powerful enough like Martin Luther to overwhelm the cathedral of US foreign policy dogma? Is he even motivated or have the attention span for such an undertaking? We will see but I think the blob will co-opt him by feeding him praise and organizing ceremonies for him.
I suspect he does not and 1 term is insufficient time. If Vance gets 2 terms after him and has the will and intent, it is possible. The tide of external events political and economic, outside of US control or influence will also assist
I agree with the thesis that Kevin has advanced. Were I to summarize it—the global order is broken; a new one is being born and yet the major actors of the receding order have yet not defined for each other and as a whole new rules as well as roles. The West is kicking and screaming whilst Eurasia (West vs Eurasia) is either kinetically fighting or mapping things out (China).
Exhibit A:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-plans-trump-putin-meet-165054896.html?.tsrc=1340&ncid=crm_-1285232-20251021-479--A&bt_user_id=F4l%2F0qNedgr%2FvsngotK7a72HhYFaoxNfHjCRNWDDx5UX0kshN%2F%2BGYZokHfqSbjEwenY%2FJn51%2B29%2BpMzfNfrUgcvbO5U4yjv4oHgRWJQ3FzP38GMbW52jkdLXu6uOirVI&bt_ts=1761071013540
Trump remains weak, stupid and easily manipulated. Give him a bit, let the europeans get to him and promise him a statue or a girl-girl show with Melania and Brigitte Macron or something and he'll flip again.
That is certainly correct. To go further, one could analyse Trump through a Simondonian lens: his persona appears to operate like a metastable system with remarkably low internal differentiation. Lacking a rigid, individuated political core, his "position" is less a fixed point and more a temporary resolution of the most immediate external pressure.
This explains the common trope that he simply echoes the last person he spoke to. He doesn't "flip" as much as he transduces—his output is a direct restructuring based on the dominant energy in his immediate field. He isn't being "manipulated" in a classical sense, but rather his psychological mode is one of perpetual, almost neonatal, receptivity and reaction, where his identity is co-constituted in real-time by his milieu. He is a living expression of the pre-individual, where potentials remain in flux until a force actualizes them.
Ultimately, to focus on Trump's seeming incoherence is to miss the real phenomenon. A metastable system's behavior is not a property of the individual alone, but a precise gauge of the field of potentials acting upon it. His fluctuations are not a personal failure of will, but a perfect, real-time map of the tensions, disparations, and unresolved forces within the political field itself. He is less an actor than a highly sensitive medium through which the collective's unindividuated conflicts and desires become visible, actualizing momentarily in one configuration (Hawkish or Peacenik Trump) before dissolving back into the pleromatic soup of potential. The true object of study is not the figure, but the shifting ground he so perfectly and passively reflects.