To be perfectly blunt, I don’t think the presentation of a united front is the issue. The wariness is from China wanting to fill the power vacuum left by the US, and many countries being extremely wary of hitching their wagons to an authoritarian superpower (which is what the US is turning into, and one of the primary reasons outside of the tariff idiocy that a lot of countries are stepping away from the US now). And the PRC is absolutely an authoritarian superpower.
Yes, the EU and other alliances in general, and individual states specifically, need to reestablish technical and financial independence, and keep it. International alliance can and should also be made, with the goal of always, always guarding sovereignty at home.
I had to come back to share with you what was coincidentally posted on YT this evening. Perhaps you will find it as relevant as I did – or not. By one of my recent favorite lecturers:
Best case scenario at this point is that both China and the US are successful in neutering each other’s foreign power.
I doubt either will be neutered, in the near future; heavily curtailed is a starting point.
A man can dream, right?
“In the beginning was the word.”
Aliester Crowley said magick is causing a change in reality, in conformance with will. It’s unfortunate so many conflate that with bippity-boppity-boo and no do. The word without action is merely a dream. Sacrifices will need to be made, even up to human life. That doesn’t necessitate bloodlust though.
No one ever said there’s a net benefit. It’s just what ends up happening one way or another. Achieving a perfect balance of power between every nation on the earth has never happened in history.
Someone will take that mantle. Someone always does. And, that being the case, it should be the E.U.
I’d love to live in the fantasy world where every country just minded its own business and left each other alone and we all just frolicked in fields of daisies…
But go and try to explain how that needs to happen to Putin, Xi, and Trump and see how far you get.
To be perfectly blunt, I don’t think the presentation of a united front is the issue. The wariness is from China wanting to fill the power vacuum left by the US, and many countries being extremely wary of hitching their wagons to an authoritarian superpower (which is what the US is turning into, and one of the primary reasons outside of the tariff idiocy that a lot of countries are stepping away from the US now). And the PRC is absolutely an authoritarian superpower.
Yes, the EU and other alliances in general, and individual states specifically, need to reestablish technical and financial independence, and keep it. International alliance can and should also be made, with the goal of always, always guarding sovereignty at home.
Best case scenario at this point is that both China and the US are successful in neutering each other’s foreign power.
A man can dream, right?
I had to come back to share with you what was coincidentally posted on YT this evening. Perhaps you will find it as relevant as I did – or not. By one of my recent favorite lecturers:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7OUAoyIUWU
Eta: here is the text: https://hermetic.com/crowley/international/xi/11/humanity-first
As an anarchist absolutely. As an American, absolutely.
I doubt either will be neutered, in the near future; heavily curtailed is a starting point.
“In the beginning was the word.”
Aliester Crowley said magick is causing a change in reality, in conformance with will. It’s unfortunate so many conflate that with bippity-boppity-boo and no do. The word without action is merely a dream. Sacrifices will need to be made, even up to human life. That doesn’t necessitate bloodlust though.
The E.U. should rule the world.
Why does the world need to be “ruled”?
Power abhors a vacuum.
So let each country be powerful enough to rule themselves. I don’t see the net benefit of having a single global “ruler.”
No one ever said there’s a net benefit. It’s just what ends up happening one way or another. Achieving a perfect balance of power between every nation on the earth has never happened in history.
That’s not what “should” means.
Someone will take that mantle. Someone always does. And, that being the case, it should be the E.U.
I’d love to live in the fantasy world where every country just minded its own business and left each other alone and we all just frolicked in fields of daisies…
But go and try to explain how that needs to happen to Putin, Xi, and Trump and see how far you get.