Andrei Martyanov

the idea that America’s greatness came not just as the fruit of America’s undeniable genius and power, but was largely due to a set of a providential circumstances which preserved America from destruction in the course of the worst war in human history, can be a severe test of their personal and even academic convictions

The American belief system as it exists today is incapable of accepting empirical evidence because it destroys American exceptionalism’s extreme confirmation bias and most modern American intellectuals on both the nominal left and the nominal right cannot deal with it.

For years, Saudi Arabia has been a major buyer of U.S.-made weapons. That relationship intensified after President Trump took office, with the American leader pushing oil-rich Riyadh to buy more weapons and Saudi Arabia pledging a purchase of $110 billion in U.S. arms just months after his inauguration. After this weekend, when a devastating attack on Saudi oil facilities blindsided the kingdom, some observers were left wondering what protection Riyadh’s outreach to the United States has bought it.

The fact that this wasn’t in the cards in the 1980s, let alone in the 1990s when the U.S. “victory in the Cold War” was wrongly assumed to be a triumph of the American way of war.

Russia’s real gross domestic product, or in a broader sense, its real economy, was much larger than that of the United Kingdom or France and was equal to or larger than that of Germany. Nations with economies “smaller than Texas” are not capable of maintaining a state-of-the-art military such as Russia’s

The United States military and its military-industrial complex completely forgot that expeditionary warfare has very little to do with an actual defense. As a result, the United States proper has no viable air defense,

The main objective of this “doctrine” is not winning wars—it is starting them. The longer those wars continue, the better it is for the bottom line of defense contractors and subcontractors. For a country whose officers and soldiers never fought against an enemy in direct defense of their motherland the whole surrealism of the situation may not be as immediately obvious but the chronic, debilitating effect on military thought cannot be denied, once one delves into the particulars of American warfare views’ evolution for the last 30-40 years.

Founded as a state by settler colonizers whose southern states operationalized slaveholding, then apartheid, Americans never were one people in the past, and as a wave of racially and politically charged violence rolled over U.S. cities in 2020, it seems likely that there never will be “one people” in America in future.

America today is a torn country in the process of evolving into an existential and, most likely, terminal and losing struggle to overcome the historical, psychological, and anthropological centrifugal forces of disintegration. Under such circumstances any talk about the national anything, least of all interest, of the United States is an exercise in futility. The American interest today, as it was to a large degree over the last hundred years, is the interest of corporations, foreign and internal ethnic and religious lobbies, and other special interests, none of which really cares of American nation, whether it exists or perishes with the latter being the most likely outcome.

The majority are people whose only difficulty in life was choosing between which Ivy League school to study in, where they studied primarily the humanities and social sciences, or deciding which law firm, bank, newspaper or TV station to work in.