First, thanks for your response!
- Yes, the nuclear shield was certainly one of the contributing factors. (France also had her own, General De Gaulle made sure not to be dependent on the US) And here is another surprising one I didn't know about (grain) > https://medium.com/@shutanweizhi/in-a-war-concerning-the-fate-of-the-country-no-one-can-win-by-conspiracy-15aebdee0384
-FA, his article was just for the link to Glenn Diesen. I'll post the original source next time:). Looks like Diesen built on Kees van der Pijl's work > https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=Em3nDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT11&ots=nEijU5HA58&sig=ub5SzDoEHfiNbuD9WHBvlDlXIc0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true
- communism, zero illusions about it. I too saw it up close.
- I dislike geopolitics. My employer used to call me a romantic cynic. Cynical enough to understand how the world really works and yet romantic enough to still want it otherwise. How, well I'll always back the Silvia's of this world > https://medium.com/the-new-climate/why-isnt-everyone-talking-about-sustainable-bioeconomies-f86ed97747cd See my remarks in her comment section.
- My aim is not to compare, but to understand how power works. America's role in geopolitics is well documented. Pick any of the many journalists writing for https://scheerpost.com/ or books by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, etc. But the book that shocked me the most was Stiglitz's book Globalization and Its Discontents. If the impacts of the IMF he describes were equated to lost QALY (quality-adjusted life years) I expect the result of this invisible evil to be horrific. But the winners of power are never truly scrutinised. Perhaps with AI in a more multi-polar world, one day an economic history student will make that equation. One has to be an abstract thinker to see this. To few around, let alone those who care and have time.
- evil vs good, it's more than just an aphorism. On a practical level, you are absolutely right. There is always compromise. But on a fundamental level, I'll still tend to disagree. It's got to do with the principle of resonance. Ancient religions and quantum physics share a surprising number of axioms. A book of new understanding that is only just opening to us. That's why, as a first step to see what I am not seeing, let alone understand, I've started reading Huxley's Perennial Philosophy.
