The other option is denial the empire is over, which is what Russia has been doing under Putin and failing harder, China is busy not interrupting the mistake that is Putin, and will pick up the pieces. ---- A sure sign of empire and imperialism is not knowing where your borders are and having to go all military on your neighbour's ass.
The other option is denial the empire is over, which is what Russia has been doing under Putin and failing harder, China is busy not interrupting the mistake that is Putin, and will pick up the pieces. ---- A sure sign of empire and imperialism is not knowing where your borders are and having to go all military on your neighbour's ass.
The recent failure of Brexit is another example of an empire failing rather than fading out, and to think it nearly did fade, the spasm or hiccough of brexit was the last gasp of the gammon fools going all prissy on their neighbour's arse.
The common theme is is that we fail to police narcissism and psychopathy in our leaders. Imperialism is a type of psychopathy writ large. But like the poor, empires are always with us.
The Brexit? Russia? Thinking either of those things are failures is empire-era thinking. It's the Economist version of the world (include the decades old motif "yeah, China is beating us everywhere, but they're in real trouble anyday now"), which nobody except the true believers takes seriously anymore.
If anything was wrong with Brexit is that it was half-heartedly enforced by politicians who didn't believe in it and had no vision - the usual bureucrats globalists that brought the country to the whole mess pre-Brexit.
The EU - even Germany, its top player, has it much worse than post-Brexit Britain, it's not even funny. If the UK took even more advantage of Brexit opportunities, and also if they didn't make the same stupid mistakes with Covid shutdown but followed a Sweden model, they'd be much more better now.
Brexit was a harkening after a failed empire. Empire-era thinking is not restricted to empires failing or not (an empire failing does not mean empires will disappear, and I suspect, like the poor they are always with us, at least it spirit, to which your point refers.) As an anarchist I would like imperialistic one-nation-one-god-one-leader-one-oneness would go away but simply pointing out the economics of the situation/s someplace was not my point in using the word failure, please read it in that frame and not some whataboutism about something I was not talking about, thanks . The brexit failure was a failure of spirit to come to terms with the posssible fact that empires are always with us (at least in spirit) and what to do about it. That empires never know where their borders are etc etc etc and that they always become narcissistic hell holes when we do not police narcissist who both gain power in contexts they prefer, and who then set up systems to suit themselves (they will call it loyalty rather systems though). And hello from Tasmania.
The other option is denial the empire is over, which is what Russia has been doing under Putin and failing harder, China is busy not interrupting the mistake that is Putin, and will pick up the pieces. ---- A sure sign of empire and imperialism is not knowing where your borders are and having to go all military on your neighbour's ass.
The recent failure of Brexit is another example of an empire failing rather than fading out, and to think it nearly did fade, the spasm or hiccough of brexit was the last gasp of the gammon fools going all prissy on their neighbour's arse.
The common theme is is that we fail to police narcissism and psychopathy in our leaders. Imperialism is a type of psychopathy writ large. But like the poor, empires are always with us.
The Brexit? Russia? Thinking either of those things are failures is empire-era thinking. It's the Economist version of the world (include the decades old motif "yeah, China is beating us everywhere, but they're in real trouble anyday now"), which nobody except the true believers takes seriously anymore.
If anything was wrong with Brexit is that it was half-heartedly enforced by politicians who didn't believe in it and had no vision - the usual bureucrats globalists that brought the country to the whole mess pre-Brexit.
The EU - even Germany, its top player, has it much worse than post-Brexit Britain, it's not even funny. If the UK took even more advantage of Brexit opportunities, and also if they didn't make the same stupid mistakes with Covid shutdown but followed a Sweden model, they'd be much more better now.
Brexit was a harkening after a failed empire. Empire-era thinking is not restricted to empires failing or not (an empire failing does not mean empires will disappear, and I suspect, like the poor they are always with us, at least it spirit, to which your point refers.) As an anarchist I would like imperialistic one-nation-one-god-one-leader-one-oneness would go away but simply pointing out the economics of the situation/s someplace was not my point in using the word failure, please read it in that frame and not some whataboutism about something I was not talking about, thanks . The brexit failure was a failure of spirit to come to terms with the posssible fact that empires are always with us (at least in spirit) and what to do about it. That empires never know where their borders are etc etc etc and that they always become narcissistic hell holes when we do not police narcissist who both gain power in contexts they prefer, and who then set up systems to suit themselves (they will call it loyalty rather systems though). And hello from Tasmania.