On May 17, I uploaded to this site the PDF containing my quotes from Brendan Simms’ book on Hitler, in whose foreword I wrote these words: “To understand it [Simms’ thesis] I would advise the visitor of my website to familiarise himself with the realism of theorists such as John Mearsheimer, who teaches us how States think and how they relate to each other”.
Fortunately, Mearsheimer explains the realist approach so well that the first nine minutes of this video make the concept clear:
It’s true that Mearsheimer is a normie, and unlike us, he sided with his country in the world wars the US waged against Germany in the last century. But in conjunction with Simms’s book, realism is vital to understanding what Hitler wanted to do not only in Europe, but also in a Soviet Union conquered by the Reich.
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Those nine minutes also explain why on my recent trip to Europe I only encountered what, in my soliloquies, I call lobotomised eunuchs.
Like a species of salamander trapped in a pool that metamorphoses and, unlike its siblings, grows teeth and begins to cannibalise them, that is what has happened to the United States since 1945. European Aryans have lost their manhood, and now only two men, represented by Trump and Putin, play chess in a zero-sum game.
It’s vital to grasp Mearsheimer’s POV to understand my recent despair in Europe with these toothless salamanders who have allowed themselves to be eaten by their big brother.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve only started to read Mearsheimer in the past year. What do you think of Pepe Escobar as a commentator/analyst? I was reading Eurasia v. NATOstan a couple of months back. And then there were a few by Andrei Martyanov (particularly the one on the myopia of American strategic planning given contemporary Russian military capacity as claimed), much as both could be considered overconfident hostile propagandists to a certain degree (I get the same with the Middle Nation guy, though I like some of his work). I know Mearsheimer makes clear that Russia’s military is not all that great, especially given the inability (or just reluctance – I wasn’t sure) to conquer further into Ukraine, let alone the rest of Europe, and, unlike Escobar, is not really optimistic that the BRICS arrangement is enough to offset the dollar as reserve currency. I would hope a loss in Ukraine would be enough to stimulate a dollar collapse, as much as to otherwise unseat NATO forces and decouple them from Europe. Regardless of whether any of this happens, or happens in time, I just hope we get a proper chance to push back in my lifetime, or make one.
In the same video above, well into the episode, Mearsheimer admits he doesn’t know anything about economics, and what he says echoes the accepted “wisdom” of the establishment that the US is in great shape. In reality, Mearsheimer is quite ignorant of economics. Colonel Douglas McGregor has a much better grasp that his country is on the verge of financial collapse.
In my humble opinion, the monetary bubble that started to inflate under Nixon and grew larger and larger with recent presidencies could be inadvertently punctured by Trump’s childish whims (scare the international markets with his tariffs, etc.). Once the bubble bursts, the collapse of the dollar will happen rapidly, within a few weeks.
I would like that to happen this year, but that’s too much to dream about…
Your intuition seems sound on that. I think personally by ’26/’27 we’ll be in problems, at least in the UK. I’m not sure if they’ll be primarily financial or social, as in something more along the lines of David Betz’ research, but something, and one segment going down will lead to another… I notice Alasdair MacLeod’s more worried at the moment (at least according to the Financial Wisdom clips) and I regularly – i.e. daily – monitor the gold price. Regardless of which year it is, I think it’ll be before the turn of the new decade at least, and yes, it certainly is inevitable regardless of detrimental political movements, on account of the very monetary system itself – I learn that from Chris Martenson at least. it just seems to take take. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad for Trump’s reckless impositions.
Also, I just wanted to clarify for the future on the Middle Nation commentator I name-dropped: I did like his comments on there never being a revolution in America. His faith in the triumphant march of Islam and his disparaging comments towards the white world (the citizens of Europe – I take it myself included – as much as ‘the West’ itself, the latter of which I would again agree with him on) as well as his status as a non-white, leave me with no sane option than to wish a bullet in his head. I find things I like in his realism and erudition. Ultimately he’s an enemy though.
Yes.
Correction: “It just seems to take a long time.”
CT,
This is slightly off topic but I wanted to share it. Here is an 11 minute video of Nick Fuentes essentially making the monocausalist argument:
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I post this because it captures the essence, imo, of moncausalism: namely that America is a captured country to Israel and the Jews and that we have lost our sovereignty to Jews. On the surface this may be superficially right. But it ignores the reason WHY this is so. It ignores the relationship between Christianity and Judaism which creates the conditions for the Jews to have such power. It also ignores the fact that America is liberal empire and that liberalism, ie neo-Christianity, is a secularization of Christianity springing from the soil of Christian universalism.
Its just such a nice essentialization of the current dissident / racialist right in one place.
Dale Jensen,
Thanks for this. Only now am I beginning to understand the insulting silence of most racialists on this site: these Christians are monocausalists precisely so as not to look at themselves in the mirror; and since for decades I have looked in the mirror—to avoid what happened to my sister Corina, Leonora, and Octavio—, I have more insight than those neo-normies.
In other words, precisely because of the autobiographical genre that people like Benjamin and I want to initiate, we no longer buy the simplistic explanation of today’s white nationalists.