The world is filled with crazies.

My cheery thought of the day:

The world is filled with crazies. Russians want to recreate either the Soviet Union or Mother Russia depending on which flavor of tyranny is in fashion. The Turks seem to dream of creating a new Ottoman Empire with a grand sultan ruling from decadent palaces in Byzantium. The Arabs are dreaming of reversing a thousand years of cultural decline and recreating a caliphate to dominate the Middle East. The Iranians fantasize about a new Persian Empire stretching from North Africa to Central Asia. Megalomania seems to have taken hold of much of the world.

Americans and Western Europeans seem to have slipped off into that dark night ready to fade away into a Western European Wonderland of oblivion, dependency and suicidal despondency.

The only nations that do not seem to have lost their way are India and China. Will they be able to stand against these threats?

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49 Responses to The world is filled with crazies.

  1. Croatian Capitalist says:

    I don’t really see any of those things being a real threat to China, the biggest threats to China are internal (pollution, hundreds of millions of Chinese still living in (extreme) poverty, corruption, etc.), if anything, the stupid way Russia is currently run benefits the Chinese (they get oil and gas at discount prices, can buy real estate and companies in Russia on the cheap, the mismanagement of the Russian Far East and the rest of Siberia presents a historic opportunity for China to take over such a gigantic piece of territory peacefully, etc.), as for India, if the Arab Sunnis managed to build a new caliphate, maybe it could inspire some of the 100 million or so Sunni Muslims in India to try doing something similar in India, but I can’t see them succeeding.

    • fafc says:

      Yes, very unlikely that China or India will be the hero coming to save the day. But more likely than the USA.

      • Croatian Capitalist says:

        I am guessing by “save the day” you mean stop the islamification of Western Europe? Well, if they manage to become genuine (military) superpowers with Worldwide power projection (I don’t think that India will, but China might) and decided that Western Europe becoming Islamic didn’t benefit them, I would guess that they would send help to the Western Europeans if an all-out conflict between Muslims and Western Europeans ever broke out in Western Europe, but I still think that Russia intervening would be the most likely intervention to happen.

        As for the three Islamic entities you mentioned in your blog post, in themselves I don’t see them as a threat to Europe, Kurds in Turkey have almost 3 times the children the “Turks” do (4 on average versus around 1,5), so Turkey will have it’s hands full with the Kurds, so there is a bigger chance of Turkey ceasing to exist within 100 years than it is that the Ottoman Empire will be revived within that time period (and Turks versus Kurds is not their only major domestic issue, the islamists and secularists hate each other as well, plus you have the Sunni Muslims versus Alevis issue), as for the Arabs, even the oil rich countries like Qatar and U.A.E. depend on foreigners for everything, and if some ISIS caliphate really did come into existence across the Arab countries, no foreigner with a functioning brain cell would go work there (and the smart locals would leave as well), so it would become a Stone Age place that would be easily defeated by the modern armed forces of the advanced countries, as for Iran, it hasn’t attacked anyone since Nader Shah invaded India in 1738, they see Wahhabi Saudi Arabia as their enemy, not Europe, and their foreign policy objectives mostly revolve around strengthening Shia Islam in the Middle East and Central Asia, if Western Europe ever does become Islamic, it will happen solely because of the “liberal” politicians who opened the doors wide for Muslim immigrants and Western societies allowing it to happen, not because of any military invasion or whatever.

        • fafc says:

          I was not thinking bout the issue of Islamification of Europe. That is a fight for Europe, and seems to be lost. But the collapse of Europe into dhimmitude does not have to mean the loss of global civilization, and the descent into a new dark age.

          No I am referring more to the general idea of a peaceful world. Pax Americana has not been perfect but has kept the sea lanes open, countries that wanted to become or remain free were assisted (to a point), Western ideals of liberty, justice, fairness, etc. were promoted where possible, etc. With the collapse of Western Europe and the abandonment of the world by the USA, there are many vacuums of power out there. I cannot see China and India being very happy about the prospect of nuclear arms race and eventual nuclear war in the Middle East. I also don’t see them very happy about a zenophobic and paranoid Russia attacking imagined enemies like reborn Napoleons or Hitlers hiding behind every rock and tree.

          Both want to see the world open up to trade and investment. They are both interested in participating in projects of all kinds around the world, but do they have the stomach to enforce peace in order to protect their interests if nothing else? Right now I think the answer is a pretty clear no. I read articles about China being rather unpleasantly startled by the abandonment of the USA. They had rather hoped that the USA would continue to act as a “fair cop” and keep things calm around the world while China moved into the neighborhood and set up shop. Now China must step up and start playing tough, or face the possibility of losing all the progress of the last 40 years. The same goes for India.

          • Croatian Capitalist says:

            If that is what we are talking about, then I guess that China would do that once it had such worldwide power projection, but I think they are still a long way off from that point, not to mention that their rise isn’t preordained, they still have many problems to fix domestically (the one-child policy has for example created serious demographic problems (there are way more men than women in China among the young, the population is rapidly aging, etc.).

    • fafc says:

      Saw that. I think the Christians should have more to fear. Jews don’t go around cutting off people’s heads who disagree with them.

      • Croatian Capitalist says:

        Yes, and the Jews in America will always have Israel to retreat to, while I think few non-Jewish Americans have a back-up plan in this regard.

        • fafc says:

          Indeed. The Jews of the Middle East escaped to Israel, but the Christians are dying like dogs. very sad.

          • Croatian Capitalist says:

            Yes, I think that the West stopped being Christian in reality a long time ago, how else could one explain the fact that the the West just ignored and continues to ignore the genocides and ethnic cleansing against the Assyrians, Lebanese Christians, etc.?

  2. Croatian Capitalist says:

    In regards to Turkey, I have just read that they are going to raise their military budget by 40%! And also that they are strengthening relations with Iran, hm…

  3. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/turkey-to-complete-wall-on-iranian-border-by-spring-2019-9849474

    Turkey has no problem building a security wall quickly, Israel had no problems building it’s security walls quickly, even countries such as India and Morocco got it done, but in America even starting the process is a serious problem, that shows how far America has fallen, in the old days, when America needed something built, it got built quickly and built well.

  4. Croatian Capitalist says:

    This isn’t about a wall, but about a bridge, Croatia isn’t connected to it’s deep south by land because the communist criminals gave the coastal town and municipality of Neum to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1945, so a bridge that would have bypassed Bosnia by linking the Croatian peninsula of Pelješac to the mainland was supposed to have commenced being built in 2005, but works will only start this year, and it will be built by the Chinese by the end of 2022, so something useful which was supposed to be completed 10 years ago will (maybe) get completed by 2022, and the money will go to foreigners, even though we have domestic companies capable of building it themselves, so this is just another thing which shows what kind of joke this country is.

  5. Croatian Capitalist says:

    Turkey Constructs 475-Mile Wall Along Syrian Border: https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201806091065268038-turkey-wall-syria-border/

  6. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/turks-set-vote-crucial-presidential-parliamentary-polls-180623170758335.html

    Sadly, any sane Turk really has no one to vote for, Erdogan is running the economy so “well” that Turkey is one of the World leaders in millionaire emigration, the opposition Republican People’s Party claims to still be a Kemalist (Kemal was Ataturks’s first name) party, but in reality today they are the same socialist PC garbage like the democrat party is in the USA, while the other parties are mostly either even bigger jokes or just too small to be a threat to Erdogan.

      • Croatian Capitalist says:

        Yes, Erdogan isn’t good neither for Turkey, nor for the West, but as I wrote above, the opposition in Turkey are a joke, so Erdogan will probably rule Turkey for as long as he wants to.

        • fafc says:

          Well until the the country falls apart. The majority of ‘Turks’ do not honestly consider themselves Turkish. Georgians, Armenians, Greeks, Galicians, etc., not to mentions Kurds. They all agree to pretend to be Muslim Turks if the Turks pretended to not ask too many questions. That agreement is clearly falling apart.

          • Croatian Capitalist says:

            Yes, Turkey is clearly full of people who don’t really consider themselves Turks, and if they don’t get a smart leader soon, the country might well cease to exist, or at least get a lot smaller.

  7. Croatian Capitalist says:

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/27/death-to-khamenei-protests-enter-fourth-day-in-iran/

    Hopefully the Iranian people will manage to topple the criminals running Iran before they plunge the entire Middle East into war.

  8. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/13/turkeys-economy-looks-like-its-headed-big-crash/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2da1903c9373

    This would be very bad, Europe needs a stable neighborhood, not failed state after failed state, there are 3 million refugees in Turkey right now, if Turkey becomes unable or unwilling to take care of them, there would be no prizes for guessing where they would end up.

    • fafc says:

      Waiting for the Middle East to become stable will be a thankless wait.

      • Croatian Capitalist says:

        For the Middle East in general that is true, but Turkey could (have) become a nice buffer state between Europe and the rest of the Middle East, but sadly it is one of the countless countries where pro-Western forces have been abandoned and left to their fates by the West, so instead of it being a successful pro-Western country, it is now being led to ruin by the loon Erdogan.

        • fafc says:

          Sadly I must agree with the only caveat being that I am not sure what the West could have done to help pro-Western forces in Turkey. They are a tiny minority, oppressed, and afraid.

          • Croatian Capitalist says:

            1) I don’t think that pro-Western people are a tiny minority in Turkey, I would say that they are the majority in Western Turkey (especially in the big cities), maybe even in the whole country apart from the Kurdish part, but the political leadership that is supposed to represent pro-Western people is currently beyond idiotic, Ataturk’s party is today led by people who are akin to the democratic party leadership in the USA, so that leaves the door open to anti-Western loons like Erdogan to take power.

            2) They might be afraid and oppressed now in 2018, and the West might not have a lot of options or even the desire now that the West itself has become largely anti-Western and Erdogan has purged the military, judiciary, etc. of people who oppose him, but history didn’t start in 2018, in the 1990’s Turkey had a a pro-Western government (led by Suleyman Demirel, a friend of Croatia (Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Croatia’s independence) and a pro-market person) and military, if the USA and EU had invested serious money into Turkey back then and if the EU had brought Turkey closer to itself, Erdogan’s party today probably wouldn’t be able to pass the threshold to enter parliament, never mind lead the country.

          • fafc says:

            If they are not a tiny minority, they have no influence on the direction of Turkey. Turkey has returned to radical Islam. Now wait for it to choose its location for expansion. I think it is going to start with small unimportant islands in the Aegean just to see what the response will be from the rest of Europe as Greece is run over.

  9. Croatian Capitalist says:

    At this moment in time, I don’t think it matters much what percentage of Turks are pro-Western, the West such Turks have aspired to join since Ataturk’s time doesn’t exist anymore (pockets of it like the V4 exist, but in general the countries which used to make up Western Civilization have become so degenerate (some deny even basic biology) that they hardly resemble their former selves, if at all) so even if the vast majority of Turks were pro-Western and Turkey was allowed to join the EU, they would just end up being ruled by either the “liberal” loons in Bruxelles or even bigger islamist loons than Erdogan once they took over the major countries in Western Europe (and thus the EU), therefore I think that the future is bleak for such people no matter how you turn it.

  10. Croatian Capitalist says:

    The more you think about how many times pro-Western people were betrayed in various countries by the West, the more you realise that the major Western countries being run by anti-Western people is not a recent development, I mentioned above that the West has done next to nothing to help pro-Western people in Turkey, but that is just the tip of the iceberg, Rhodesia in the 1970’s and South Africa in the 1990’s were given to anti-Western communists by the West, Jimmy Carter abandoned the pro-Western people in Iran to the islamist loons, he was also instrumental in getting the pro-Western president Anastasio Somoza ousted in Nicaragua by the socialists in 1979, in the 1960’s the pro-Western Congolese leader Moïse Tshombe tried to create a pro-Western African state called Katanga, and as you can probably guess the West didn’t support him, Eisenhower teamed up with the Soviet Union in 1956 to force the UK, France and Israel out of Egypt, which solidified the power of the socialist criminal Nasser, at the end of World War II anti-communist fighters (Ukrainian and Russian Cossacks, Estonians and Latvians, etc.) and their families were handed over by the UK, Sweden, etc. to the communist scum, who then of course gruesomely tortured and murdered them, and the list goes on and on, I think that whoever wrote that World War I killed Western Civilization was right, it has been all downhill from there for the West.

    • fafc says:

      Sad but true.

      • Croatian Capitalist says:

        Yes, and let’s not forget that even in the Western countries themselves the domestic people (for example Joseph McCarthy in the USA, Enoch Powell in the UK, etc.) who tried to fight against communist infiltration, opening the floodgates to mass third world immigration and other things which have lead to those countries current predicament were all vilified and ridiculed by the media, politicians, etc.

  11. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/new-hampshire-white-diversify.html

    I am sure this will turn out well, just like it did in Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago…

  12. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.voanews.com/a/us-iran-sanctions/4515192.html

    Hopefully Iran will be free soon, the Shia mullahs have ruined the country.

  13. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/turkey-annual-inflation-rate-is-running-at-an-estimated-101-percent.html

    Hopefully Erdogan will get removed from power soon, because him being in power is bad for Turkey, bad for the Middle East and bad for Europe.

    • fafc says:

      I don’t like him, but I wonder what the alternative would be. There really is nothing holding Turkey together now other than Islam and a sense of destiny in something related to that. The secular Turkey that Ataturk imagined is dead, and it was probably dead on arrival. There is no such thing as a Turk. There are a dozen different ethnic identities in Turkey, and the struggle has been to try to find a way to unify them behind something. If that does not work, I suspect they will unify them against something.

      • Croatian Capitalist says:

        I don’t know what the alternative would be, but I doubt that it would be any worse, because if things continue on their current trajectory, it is going to end badly for Turkey.

  14. Croatian Capitalist says:

    But anyway, I think what is happening in Turkey showcases something which we haven’t really discussed before (except partially when we mentioned what kind of frauds the Republicans in the USA are), namely that in many cases the stated ideology of a political party has little or nothing to do with reality, for example this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey)) is Erdogan’s party, and it is supposed to be an economically liberal party, but there is nothing economically liberal about the way Turkey is run, this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Democratic_Union) is the party which ru(i)ns Croatia, and it is supposed to be a “liberal-conservative” party (which amongst other things means supporting the market economy), but it is a communist party both in deeds and in mentality, etc., so this is yet another thing to look out for when researching countries.

  15. Croatian Capitalist says:

    IMF backs South Africa’s plan to confiscate land from white farmers: https://www.rt.com/business/437348-imf-supports-ramaphosa-land-reform/

    The IMF is just one of a long list of organizations (the UN, the EU, etc.) which should be disbanded for the good of Humanity.

  16. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/jews-are-unsafe-in-turkey-and-should-leave-now

    It isn’t just the Jews who are fleeing Erdogan’s Turkey, successful people from all walks of life are leaving Turkey in droves.

    • fafc says:

      I doubt it. Fascism is resilient and flexible. Erdogan will use the people against themselves, and if they turn on him, he will use the power of government against the people.

  17. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/04/10/turkeys-president-demands-a-fresh-vote-in-istanbul

    It would be funny if a new vote was held and his candidate lost by an even bigger margin.

  18. Croatian Capitalist says:

    https://www.rferl.org/a/god-s-punishment-serbian-tabloids-say-notre-dame-fire-result-of-flying-kosovo-s-flag/29884431.html

    Sick, and the typical Serb really does think like this, they were celebrating as well when the airplanes hit the Twin Towers in 2001, Serbia is definitely a country Westerners should avoid.

    • fafc says:

      Of course the West has gone out of their way to screw the Serbs over for at least 100 years. Not a justification for being stupid, but an explanation. People get tired of being the guy who gets kicked around all the time even if some times they have it coming.

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