The Morrigan Meets Clio

I have trouble believing that Putin wants to erase the United States. What other entity can consume Chinese goods at this scale? Putin might content himself with the acquisition of Ukraine (which is indeed part of Russian Civilization) and abstain from fecking with China's Belt-and-Road Initiative, which is also important to his own Eurasian dream.

Does China know what it's getting into? Or has the impersonal logic of capital taken over? Pragmatic Xi must make a scholarly study of Zionism if he wants the Ben Gurion Canal to provide an alternative to the potential chokepoint of Suez. In this scenario, the Gaza Genocide is only a land clearance op. But is prophecy a real obsession with Likud, or just a marotte with which to beguile the Sephardim? Then the Pax Judaica will be less about national glory and more about a secure corridor serving capital's abstract systemic necessities (such as redundancy) under reliable management. Israel becomes a guarantor of capital's passage between Asia, Europe, and Africa.

I liked Zionists better when they were atheist pinko comsymps.

Useful once, the nation-state is obsolete. Will we go through 1984 to get to Dune, or skip that step?

I can't tell if the improvident rentierism of the consumer class will prove its doom or ensure its future.


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