Sorel’s Pistol

The cancerous malady that is Third Worldism has thrived on Western soil for a very long time. A century ago, Henri Massis warned of those "prophets of disaster" in our midst who speak of the inevitable triumph of supposedly noble "communal" and "spiritual" Eastern nations over the "individualistic" and "rational-scientific" Western civilization. The goals of such doomsayers is "aimed far more at the overthrow of the order of the world than at its determination" and to make "uneasiness universal and renunciation possible, to sap resistance and to darken counsel, to cause us to lose sight of the rules of preservation, to neglect the measures vital to our recovery." The "fatal disorder" of self-repudiation is a great danger because it renders Western man "anxious and defeated in advance . . . [He] recoils before the effort necessary to defend himself." This "Asiaticism," so prevalent in Europe at a time when impressionable minds were fascinated by the rising revolutionary empire to the East, Massis cautioned, is "disposing us to the final dispersal of the heritage of our culture and of all that which enables the man of the West still to keep himself upright on his feet. Personality, unity, stability, authority, continuity—these are the root ideas of the West." archive.org/details/defenc…

@SelectivBreeder Lenin read Aristotle and Hegel. It doesn't change the fact that his mission was mobilizing Asiatic steppe savages against White bourgeois civilization

The "Third-Worldist" Iran is led by mathematicians writing books on Plato and Kant, while the "pro-Western" US is led by religious retards gloating about destroying Europe's energy supply

There's an interesting paper on how 19th century French thinkers understood communism to be essentially a Russian/Asiatic phenomenon and a civilizational threat to classical Western values, long before the emergence of Bolshevism. Note in this excerpt how this proto-Third Worldism already extant in the 1840s resembles embrace of Eastern trad values and "community" among both retard right and left today. #tocto1n3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.openedition.org/monderusse/869…

French Communist author Louis Aragon, 1925 This malaise of Western self-loathing has been with us for quite some time

@BorealBaron Israel did want to get involved with the First Gulf War after Saddam launched missiles at them but Bush kept them out because it would alienate the Arab coalition partners. Arab world has greatly softened its stance on Israel since then

Australia has contributed troops to every war the US has fought in the last 100 years, including Korea and Vietnam. Meanwhile, Israel has contributed troops to no US or European-led wars. If there’s no shared sacrifice, how is alliance measured other than by propaganda?

@captive_dreamer @ElectionWiz Remember Alexander Vindman?

@ElectionWiz I doubt a single person I meet in the street has any idea who Joe Kent is

The Joe Kent resignation hit hard, really hard, today. Normies are reading his letter (or at least hearing the key quotes). This isn't going away overnight, and attacks on him are just adding fuel to the fire.

@goat_poaster Sharon preferred Bush focus on Iran, seeing Iraq as a distraction but got behind the invasion once Bush made up his mind washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

@NaturalRightFan I think in regards to your second point about Sharon privately opposing the Iraq war, the qualifier "without an exit strategy" should do the heavy lifting. That would imply that in fact, Sharon supported the invasion in principle but had reservations over its execution.

Great piece which dispels many myths about the Israel lobby and the Middle-East. - High-ranking Israeli officials didn't believe Iraq was a security threat in the aftermath of the First Gulf War - PM Ariel Sharon privately opposed the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq fearing it would destabilize the region and strengthen Iran - A majority of Jews in Congress voted against the First Gulf War while a greater share of non-Jews voted for authorizing the 2003 invasion - Israeli government statements in support of the 2003 invasion had only been made after the decision was made in early 2002 as quid pro quo in exchange for a carte blanche in the West Bank and Gaza

@CityBureaucrat @captive_dreamer @MaxNordau Though one thing M/W get right is that Iraq was a neocon initiative and the Israelis signed on later. Worth checking out this book which builds on M/W but stresses the neoconservatives as the decisive cause cambridge.org/core/books/abs…

You can find plenty of statements like that from Tony Blair and his ministers in the lead up to the war. I remain persuaded by Joseph Massad--a victim of the Israel lobby--who maintained that the lobby "does not extend beyond cheering and pushing existing US policy further in the same direction to which it is beholden." middleeasteye.net/big-story/why-…

W/M get away with this sleight of hand because they sloppily group the neoconservatives under the category "Israel lobby." Though there is plenty of evidence that American neoconservatives empowered the right in Israel but they've been so successful at marginalizing the Israeli Left that no one talks about it anymore. This was a big complaint among liberal Zionists in the aughts. Andrew Sullivan is an illustrative example:

@captive_dreamer @NaturalRightFan @MaxNordau Walt and Mearsheimer say the Israel Lobby was one of the essential causes of the war. There's an entire chapter on it.

@hatul123ha13136 @CVergennes37976 That's incorrect. Netanyahu was Ariel Sharon's Foreign Minister in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. People bring up his Congressional testimony from late 2002 but that was after Bush made up his mind and wanted the Israelis to legitimize American casus belli

@CVergennes37976 @NaturalRightFan Netanyahu was not even in the government back then lol

@captive_dreamer @MaxNordau Tony Blair was more enthusiastic about invading Iraq and was discussing plans immediately after 9/11 with Bush before the Israelis knew anything

@NaturalRightFan @MaxNordau Iirc even in the Walt and Meirsheimer book on the Israel lobby they talk about Israel's lack of enthusiasm for the Iraq invasion

The clean break memo is addressed in the article. It calls on Israel to distance itself from Bill Clinton's liberal internationalism and take on its regional foes unilaterally. Netanyahu was parroting statements coming from U.S. intelligence officials that Saddam was seeking nuclear weapons and, as the article notes, he didn't make those statements until months after the decision to invade was already taken

@NaturalRightFan What about the Clean Break Memo, the OSP, and Netanyahu literally telling Congress that Saddam was developing nuclear weapons?

@AuronMacintyre Joe Kent claimed that Operation Inherent Resolve was "manufactured by Israel." Do you believe there's any evidence to the idea that Obama bombed ISIS on behalf of Israel?

Kent is a highly respected MAGA veteran who has paid a dear price of his service The letter claiming that the war was manufactured by Israel is particularly brutal

@harmaceutics What do these numbers look like for the anti-White regime of South Africa? The European Union has come out in defense of South Africa after Trump's diplomatic assault but is there a wide European constituency for the defense of White rights in Africa?

This analysis instantly collapses if you look outside the US. Plenty of European countries that are >75% White (Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, among others) have overwhelmingly negative views of Israel.

@arash_tehran It's not rare in the Middle East, it's just that the tables have turned on Iran. Iran is directly responsible for the assassination of the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 and plenty of other Lebanese politicians, high-ranking military officers.

On Larijani's killing: Do we realize that, until recently, it was extremely rare for countries, even those at war, to simply kill each other's top political officials? Are we ready for this to be the 'new normal'?

@plzbepatient The part of the letter that stuck out for me is the assertion that the U.S. intervention in Syria was "manufactured by Israel," which is total bullshit

On the one hand there’s some honor in this, but on the other, you’re ending your political career, losing any influence you may have had to change anything, and entering a crowded podcast space

@IchbinHussite It's worth noting some of the most influential conservative critics of AH like Keyserling, Thomas Mann and Spengler all have a long history of what can be described as "Third Worldism," chiefly Slavophilia, and urged rapprochement with tradcon socialist Moscow

"Erm actually Hitler" misses the point entirely, as the comparison is that both Hitler and Trump had enemies on the right who went mad thinking he was a sellout, puppet, not doing enough or a stooge. Even as things were improving.

This joke filtered a lot of people who still do not understand what I am trying to tell people.

@mattyglesias Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter sanctioned Rhodesia, a stalwart ally against the Soviet Union, for having un-woke views on race

Conservative politics untempered by any sense of honor or Christian moralism is really ugly.