For nearly 18 months, the Trump administration and many analysts have thought of the US, Russia, and China as great powers deciding the fate of the world, unconstrained by lesser states. Today, the US is the losing party in a Versailles peace agreement and Moscow looks like this:
To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app
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Ruth Deyermond
The conversation I have had with each of my kids: "if you *ever* run into a problem online and you think you're in trouble, you can *always* come talk to me about it, and if you think I will be upset about a choice you made just start out by saying 'I may need some help.'" And I will take that...
we really have no idea what happens when a radical right populist takes over a hegemon of America's size
Recently I was at an event where a reasonably respectable person talked about how Trump’s threats to Greenland speak to the human desire to go on a grand mission, etc, and that’s why we need to respect the mass appeal of this idea. Invading Greenland polls at like 6% approval. But they like it on X
