The Prosperity, stability and power of the United States and indeed the West survives on it being an empire. That empire is now devouring itself. After destroying many. Trump's ways may dismantle this colonial behemoth. Will United States survive as a country, when it is no longer an empire?
When rage is combined with religious and ideological absolutism, avenues of freedoms vanish. Dissent is met with ruthless subjugation and every atrocity is covered up by ambivalence. Let's deep dive.
My India journey started with Mahakumbh, followed by a conference on geopolitics. The world is changing, and we need to focus on the motivations behind these changes.
Any society, specifically a democracy, is run by two sets of rules – written laws and unwritten norms. When any ruler or ruling elite starts to play with the unwritten norms, although they do not break the law, they set into motion the downward trajectory of that society.
Because what happens after that is irreversible.
Once an unwritten norm, which has kept the society together is broken, sans any repercussions, legal specifically, then things go awry. The only way after that, to fix things is to make them into written enforceable laws. That is another bad idea because then there is no flexibility when such flexibility is needed in the time of extreme danger. In those times of extreme danger then, the society is entangled in the mesh of legal back and forth battles. No action occurs even when “barbarians are at the gate”.
That is why, in any democracy, saving the unwritten norms from being exploited is FAR FAR more important than enforcing law. What is law and legally enforceable can be actioned by an entire machinery. But that which is unwritten and non-enforceable but critical to the orderly conduct of the society can only be addressed by a few.
Unfortunately, the US is now staring at a existential threat to its very being. The unwritten norms are being played with and struck down with amazing alacrity by Trump. And it will take this country down to a quagmire that its enemies have been so wanting to happen.
This is a fascinating discussion between Fareed Zakaria and Don Lemon. And they are looking at this very issue from a rather interesting historical context of how America’s founding fathers looked at it.
The Prosperity, stability and power of the United States and indeed the West survives on it being an empire. That empire is now devouring itself. After destroying many. Trump's ways may dismantle this colonial behemoth. Will United States survive as a country, when it is no longer an empire?
USAID is being dismantled. Contrary to what the moral busybodies declare, the aid infrastructure of the West has actively subverted other societies. Its only when it turned inwards with the same zeal that it is now being dismantled - brick by brick.
Trump has promised a new America. But the way he is approaching the world, he may up creating a new world order. His actions and words on Greenland need to be properly understood. Its a change in tactics but not a change in direction.
Laura Loomer sparked off an internal Trump camp civil war. Almost as if on a cue. What is the context of the "H1Bs" and what are the challenges? Let's discuss this dispassionately.
