China seems less ideologically evangelical than the West is/was. (View Post)

I have to thank @Sean_F for putting me onto the historian of the British Empire Ronald Hyam, who incidentally died this year. (View Post)

I doubt we really disagree. The point i am trying to make is simply that the U.S. is less reliable than it was. That shared set of values that made the U.S. an unthinkingly obvious choice are now sev… (View Post)

I minded. They were obscenely boring. (View Post)

Nobody particularly cares about your approbation or disapprobation. Anyone who can witness the Dmitriev-Witkoff plan and think that the U.S. remains the only choice is simply not thinking straight. (View Post)