The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for recommending this article from Ramin Mazaheri.  This is the last in a series.  You can find the previous articles through the following links... The Ukrainian suicide: Reading Emmanuel Todd’s French-only 'The Defeat of the West' Eastern Europe’s pro-West shift is ‘inauthentic’ - Emmanuel Todd’s ‘The Defeat of the West’ Emmanuel Todd asks ‘What is the West?’ Protestants and professors won't like his answer The ‘EU-icide’: Emmanuel Todd asks if it’s suicide or homicide? Emmanuel Todd on the UK’s Russophobia: a crumbling nation needs a scapegoat Emmanuel Todd beats Democrats by 6 months: The US is an oligarchy ‘The Defeat of the West’ necessarily includes done and dusted failures in the US Emmanuel Todd has hard, obvious truths for why the US is leading Ukraine to ruin Ramin Mazaheri (This is the 7th part in a multipart series on Emmanuel Todd’s political it-book of the moment  The Defeat of the West (La Defaite de l’Occident) .) In

  War: oligarchy's great silencer Imperial wars are primarily directed at the empire's domestic populations. Foreign enemies are only interesting if there's booty to plunder. ALEX KRAINER James Madison  wrote that, "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will come in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." Today this statement no longer seems like a remote risk for the "free world." Indeed, we are witnessing an escalation of attacks against the foundational values which, not so long ago, we were taking for granted: freedom to travel, free speech, the right to bear arms, etc. Of course, the popular resistance to these infringements is also escalating. A class war is afoot and it’s getting worse The American people, one of the last nations that still defends their right to bear arms, are clearly responding to the attacks on their Second Amendment with more gun purchases; the defense of free speech has spilled into the social media like a tsunami;