The problem that “New” America (as distinct from North or Real) faces today isn’t just in the realm of physical technologies because whatever NA can do, so too can the Chinese, for they know STEM too and they seem to be mass-producing more engineers and scientists than NA. Rather, the problem that NA has today is one of cultural technologies…
Character-building CTs are breaking down across NA. As they break down, we can then predict a phalanx of negative events within civilisation and between.
For example, I don’t think Antony Blinken is an effective Secretary of State. He seems to believe that the Russian Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, went to North Korea for weapons, which may or may not be true, but I also see something else…
I see the meeting more along the lines of Russia, China, and NK, pivoting the “Axis of Global Power” towards a new Multipolar World Order…
The region has emerged as a critical fulcrum in the balance of global power. NK, long considered to be “isolated” by Western standards, is being gradually transformed into a “pivot” of international strategy. A strategic realignment unfolding, orchestrated by Beijing and Moscow.
The visit looks to be a clear “statement of intent” re Russia’s reemergence as a dominant player on the world stage, determined to punch a hole into sanctions that successive administrations have painstakingly built around NK.
NA can simply be “bypassed” today, relegated to the periphery. Geographer Halford Mackinder once warned of this emerging reality.
“We’ve come a long way from when North Korea would avoid showing off its nuclear capabilities when senior foreign dignitaries from Russia and China were in town,” said Ankit Panda of the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, calling the tour “remarkable”.
In Blinken’s mind he reads it as, ‘it’s Russia needing weapons’. To my mind, this is a textbook example of liberal logic and cognitive dissonance coming from the State Department.
