Noah Smith, who writes a popular economics blog, speculates that Trump etc realise that the U.S. have actually LOST the battle for technical supremacy with China (aka Cold War 2) and are therefore gu… (View Post)

Zeihan keeps talking about how the UK has no choice but to accept American agri-slop. Which is bollocks, and kind of undermines his whole oeuvre. (View Post)

Vance makes an interesting argument. The contention I think is Ukraine cannot win, and the only thing getting in the way of a conclusion to the war therefore is Ukraine’s (or even just Zelensky’s) se… (View Post)

Musk is busy retweeting Dugin on X. I do think it’s fascinating trying to understand the varying ideologies of Trump, Musk, and Vance. They are not uniformly coherent, although it is true they are al… (View Post)

Vance hates Europe for the same reason that many Brexiters claim to hate the EU: that it is effete, “sclerotic”, hypocritical, and whines from behind the hem of the U.S. petticoat. He also thinks Eur… (View Post)