Kategorie: USA

Wrong: Checkmate! Ukraine will capitulate and Europe is brought to its knees

Self-correction two days after publication. The demand for payment in rubles could have led to a halt in gas supplies and the destructive economic and social effects mentioned below. However, Putin left himself a loophole (see footnote *0* below). Nevertheless, I am not deleting the article because it shows Europe’s fatal dependence on foreign resources and its possible consequences.

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Friends and Foes – German (Self)Righteousness

It happens that sharp-eyed psychologists are amazed at how similar people, e.g. men and women, can become when they are together for years, e.g. in a marriage. Malicious voices even claim that such similarity may frequently be observed between a dog and its master (mistress). Both then seems to become each others strange counterfeits. We need not find this surprising: a close coexistence inevitably leads to an alignment of habits, views, preferences, and antipathies – otherwise a close coexistence would not come about in the first place. Friends and Foes – German (Self)Righteousness weiterlesen

Brotherly Love the Russian way – Struggling for the New World Order

The Russian president recently let the world know that the Ukrainians are a nation of brothers, but that they have been subjected to Western brainwashing which turned them into Nazis. Apparently, he assumes that the largest and most powerful among the brothers, the Russians, are legitimized to impose their law on the smaller and weaker ones, that is, to bring them under the Russian heel. Brotherly Love the Russian way – Struggling for the New World Order weiterlesen

Russische Bruderliebe – der Kampf um die neue Weltordnung

Unlängst klärte der russische Präsident die Welt darüber auf, dass die Ukrainer ein Brudervolk seien, das aber westlicher Gehirnwäsche ausgesetzt und deshalb in das Fahrwasser von Nazis geraten sei. Offenbar geht er davon aus, dass der größte und mächtigste unter den Brüdern, die Russen, legitimiert sei, den kleineren und schwächeren das eigene Gesetz aufzuzwingen, sprich, sie unter die russische Knute zu zwingen. Russische Bruderliebe – der Kampf um die neue Weltordnung weiterlesen

Putin’s vision for Ukraine and for Europe

So now we can finally be sure: The Russian knout is in the window. For Putin, not only Ukraine is a failed state, but he and Xi Jinping already prophetically foresee the end of the free Western world. The territorially largest nuclear power offers a political alternative that can draw on a long imperial tradition – from the tsars to Stalin to Vladimir Putin himself. The Russian president offers us an imposed Gleichschaltung, safely backed by the police, the military, the state security service, and the systematic suppression of all opposition. Putin’s vision for Ukraine and for Europe weiterlesen

Global Arena: China and the Dialectics of Freedom

If the world were a racetrack in which nations compete for victory and medals, we would admire the mighty catching-up nations that are surging ahead. These include China and India – Russia would like to join them. Western countries still claim the first position, but we see them torn by the strongest internal contradictions and social protests. This is especially true of the United States.

Global Arena: China and the Dialectics of Freedom weiterlesen

Delta – Is democracy losing the battle against dictatorship and autocracy?

Although we usually hear populists in both camps saying, that the realm of good – their own – is facing that of evil – the other side, U.S. and Chinese students and scholars move effortlessly from one country to the other. After the Chinese conformed most of their institutions to the Western model, the similarities between them are significantly greater than anything that still separates them. Delta – Is democracy losing the battle against dictatorship and autocracy? weiterlesen

Nation state or Homo technicus universalis?

Abstract:

The „Clash of Cultures“ due to irreconcilable religions and ideologies belongs to the past. In contrast, the „Clash of Civilizations“, i.e. the worldwide struggle for an equally high and, if possible, ever higher material standard of living, is darkening our common future, since the last resources are being plundered and nature increasingly poisoned in the name of progress. Mankind will only escape this struggle against itself and against nature by submitting to a global authority that demands the same restrictions from all of us.

Nation state or Homo technicus universalis? weiterlesen

The United States in a debt binge – role model for the rest of the world?

Dear Mr. Lingens /Austrian Author and economist/, I don’t know if you are doing well to sing the praises of the beauty of debt while comparing little Austria with the big US. Remember, since about the 1990s, not only the whole world, but also many Americans are beginning to talk about the decline of their country (and the most clear-sighted observers of the U.S. are still to be found in the US themselves). The United States in a debt binge – role model for the rest of the world? weiterlesen

Vereinigte Staaten im Schuldentaumel – Vorbild für die übrige Welt?

Lieber Herr Lingens /Publizist des Wiener Falter und Ökonom/, ich weiß nicht ob Sie gut daran tun, einen Lobgesang auf die Schönheit der Schulden anzustimmen und dabei das kleine Österreich mit den großen USA zu vergleichen. Vergessen Sie nicht, etwa seit den neunziger Jahren beginnt nicht nur die ganze Welt sondern beginnen selbst viele Amerikaner vom Niedergang ihres Landes zu sprechen (denn die hellsichtigsten Beobachter der USA findet man immer noch in diesen selbst). Vereinigte Staaten im Schuldentaumel – Vorbild für die übrige Welt? weiterlesen