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GEORGE FRIEDMAN

Saturday, December 8, 2018


THE NECESSITY OF NATIONALISM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eovIYNFopgw

It is not quite Brooks' nationalism....

I am not in Friedman's camp.

When Friedman explains that nationalism is not inherently a so called conservative (whatever that now means) thing, but rather a liberal thing, this is a very correct important point. A classic example is Weimar Germany.

Wilsonian self determination was a classic statement of the concept.

You might think of it as a laissez faire of similar race, culture, and ethnicity combining across or within old imperial boundaries.

I am less a nationalist than an imperialist, but strictly Western Imperialism. This imperialism was the traditional order against which the Democratic Revolution unfolded from say 1760. 

It rebelled against imperialism both in favor of nationalism, and also, contradictorily, universalism, as well incongruously as individualism, simultaneously.

That is why the history has been so misunderstood.

GEORGE FRIEDMAN


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnPgscg0vU

He says Russia and China are declining powers. Japan is a rising power.

That doesn't seem to me to be a very accurate view of these three, but he's the expert, who also coincidentally criticizes the concept of experts.

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