An extraordinarily salient description of geopolitics today.

I am extremely alarmed at this evolution of the Syrian conflict. That such flimsy justifications for direct US military involvement are being essayed indicates to me that further escalation is definitely on the table.

That is a terrible disappoint to me, as I had thought that the rapid defeat of ISIS during Trump's first year indicated this war would soon end. It no longer appears even a little bit likely that I was right.

"You can't see the new empire on a map, so people assume that it isn't there, but the only reason you can't see it on the maps we were trained to read in school is because the new empire isn't in any way limited by geography. It is unconcerned with the little lines drawn between the countries on our plastic classroom globes, or the different colors their manufacturers painted the different nations with. The nationless band of plutocrats who use governments as tools and weapons are not limited by those things. They don't think in those terms. They don't care about land and governments, they care about money, power, and influence. And none of those things are geographically confined."

Rather than being irrelevant, national borders and institutions are being co-opted as weapons against the peoples therein. The solution to this isn't nationalism, but agorism, and the obviation of the weapon states represent to freedom.

I sure am glad I followed you. If I hadn't, I'd have missed this post, which I consider seminal.

Thanks!