The END of US Hegemony Is Here - What Happens Next?
- My interview on the Jay Martin Show about the counter-productive efforts to prevent the decline of US hegemony. The US could accept a more modest position in the international system and recover its socio-economic and political vitality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZvQo0BN81A
Protecting our proxy war from democracy
- In newspeak: "Trump-proofing aid"
After 10 years of soft interviews, Stoltenberg is challenged on his views
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Zelensky gives the West an ultimatum: NATO membership or he will acquire nuclear weapons
- Either way, Europe ends up in nuclear war
When you have to threaten countries to use your declining currency, it demonstrates the need to de-couple and diversify
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Over 15 years of low interest rates have fueled many asset bubbles, caused malinvestments, ballooned the debt, and laid the foundation for another banking crisis. The rest of the non-Western world can see the coming disaster and they are constructing a parallel international economic system
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/economic-collapse-and-the-post-american
Israel to starve north Gaza and make it a closed military zone
https://www.ft.com/content/c0c9e82c-3c83-4bda-a7f9-157ce32d8c12
Russia's advance in Pokrovsk threatens to "destroy the remaining steel industry of Ukraine".
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Is it moral to act according to how the world ought to be when war is the consequence of ignoring how the world actually works?
https://lnkd.in/d3pFkJ3R
BRICS meeting this month will likely be a game changer
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/brics-develops-a-multipolar-economic
My previous op-ed about how the narrative of NATO "helping" Ukraine is defended from inconvenient facts
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/natos-destruction-of-ukraine-under
I was interviewed by Anatol Lieven at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft about my book: "The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order"
- This was a great pleasure, as I am a big supporter of their excellent work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZNUNMxoYNkY
Danish media: A few days before the attack on Nord Stream, US warships were in the area with their transponders switched off. The US sent the Danish harbour master back and he was not "allowed" to say anything
- US claims only Ukraine was behind the attack
https://weltwoche.ch/daily/us-marine-soll-kurz-vor-nord-stream-zerstoerung-mit-abgeschaltetem-transponder-am-tatort-gewesen-sein-berichtet-daenische-zeitung/
Ukrainian soldiers from the nazi group C14 destroys a cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Our journalists consider themselves "pro-Ukrainian" by ignoring such attacks on Ukrainian society, as it breaks links with Russia & protects the Ukrainian government from criticism
Apartment buildings bombed in Beirut:
- Journalists should take a break from justifying the destruction of Lebanon and consider the consequences this will have over the next decades
What has happened to Germany?
- Bearbock responds to the massacres in Gaza: "Civilian places can also lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it. That's what Germany stands for"
“This book asks some of the big questions of our time, above all the effect of technological change on social order and international relations. This ambitious and original study provides some of the answers, although it argues that we are only at the beginning of a period of fundamental and accelerating change to accustomed patterns of state-society relations, economics, geopolitics and, ultimately on citizenship and political order. Written from a 'global' perspective, this erudite and engaging work is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of humanity.” ―Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Politics-Fourth-Industrial-Revolution/dp/0755607007
"Why did the Istanbul negotiations fail in spring 2022? Because the West would rather weaken Russia than save Ukraine."
https://weltwoche.ch/story/sabotage-des-friedens/
"Professor Diesen’s brilliant analysis... is required reading for those interested in international finance and politics who wish to be prepared for the tectonic shifts in the future political landscape."
- Jack F. Matlock, US Ambassador to the USSR 87-91
https://www.amazon.com/Europe-Western-Peninsula-Greater-Eurasia/dp/1538161761
The US/UK sabotage of the Istanbul negotiations predictably led to disaster. As Zelensky warned in March 2022: “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine"
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/sabotage-of-the-istanbul-peace-agreement
It was common sense during the Cold War that security derived from deterring the Russians without provoking them. This common sense is now long gone as Scandinavia is transformed from a region of peace to an American frontline
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/the-militarisation-of-scandinavia
Viktor Orban delivering uncomfortable truths to the EU Parliament:
- "We are losing on the Ukrainian frontlines, and you are all acting as if this isn’t happening"
Kamala Harris responded with a word salad on 60 minutes that was ridiculed, so CBS edited the interview
- These are the same people who demand to police your speech, and demand to censor and cancel in the name of fighting disinformation
Former CIA Chief of Russia Analysis, George Beebe:
- Russia and much of the world do not accept the "rules-based international order" in which the US dictate the rules and selectively decides when they are applied
- Putin is rational and wants normal diplomatic ties with NATO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7chjdTMoWw&t=347s
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Political elites attempting to seem normal and relatable is always awkward:
- After globalisation in the 19th century, the political elites became increasingly detached from the public. Populists fill the vacuum created by the growing gap between the political elites and the public by claiming to represent the people against the elites, and the elites respond by attempting to seem relatable. The same has happened under the globalisation of our time as political elites form global networks with dependence on global institutions and global capital, thus they become less accountable to their own public
- Instead of addressing this problem honestly, we get these desperate efforts by political elites to seem normal and relatable. Every speech is narrative- and brand-building in which they focus on being raised with limited means and being just like you
