Anonymous ID: aea616 Jan. 18, 2024, 12:23 p.m. No.20263695   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3704

Edifying comentary…

Pepe Escobar: How the West Was Defeated

<11 hours ago (Updated: 7 hours ago)

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240118/how-the-west-was-defeated-1116245840.html

At least some sectors of strictly oligarch-controlled corporate media in France simply could not ignore Todd this time around for several reasons. Most of all because he was the first Western intellectual, already in 1976, to have predicted the fall of the USSR in his book La Chute Finale, with his research based on Soviet infant mortality rates.

Anonymous ID: aea616 Jan. 18, 2024, 12:25 p.m. No.20263704   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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…Rather, he focuses on the key reasons that have led to the West’s downfall. Among them: the end of the nation-state; de-industrialization (which explains NATO’s deficit in producing weapons for Ukraine); the “degree zero” of the West’s religious matrix, Protestantism; the sharp increase of mortality rates in the US (much higher than in Russia), along with suicides and homicides; and the supremacy of an imperial nihilism expressed by the obsession with Forever Wars.

Anonymous ID: aea616 Jan. 18, 2024, 12:50 p.m. No.20263822   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3858

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Curious, was there a particular piece of data, or a particular phrase you read someplace that made you go "hmm! Patriots really are in control!"?

Because I've been here since about 2018, trying to pay attention, very well-read (many varied international thinkers), and I have yet to have that "light go on". WTF have you seen that I have not I wonder?