Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Glenn Diesen" channel.

  1. Prof. Sachs talked about a coup and the US promoting regime change as if that was surprising. Heck, that's what USAID was set up for. As for the experiment in unipolarity, the US just fell into that. There really wasn't much support for it in the electorate. George H. W. Bush wanted to have the discussion about how the world should work after the breakup of the Soviet Union. He was our most experienced President in foreign affairs. He was voted out of office in favor of a candidate who campaign had a tag line, "It's the economy, stupid." It almost always is. If you look at polling on issue ranking among the American electorate in the last election, Ukraine was near the bottom, along with climate change.
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  2. Excellent interview and excellent questions by Mr. Diesen. Mr. Doctorow is very knowledgeable and impressive in his analysis. There is talk about "unipolarity" and issues with the world order. This is interesting and brings to mind something I read by Peter Zeihan. As he pointed out, we had a President in the US who wanted to talk about what happens after the Cold War (I miss the Cold War). That was George H. W. Bush. He was the most qualified president we have ever had for this in terms of foreign policy. He had been a Navy aviator in WW2, a congressman, an ambassador (UN and China), Director of the CIA, Vice President for eight years and President for four years. He was voted out of office. His opponent's campaign had a tag line: "It's the economy, stupid." As Zeihan also points out our presidents have become progressively more populist since. Even George W. Bush ran on a platform of reducing US entanglements abroad and putting an end to "nation building". I remember that very well. I had discussions with my wife about that when discussing the candidates. Then 9/11 happened. The GWT was a detour. The Ukrainians, and I have followed several individual YouTubers, are spreading propaganda and seemingly believing it. Sometimes, though, something comes through. They are big on two things. One is international law (no such thing exists without agreed laws and a policeman) and "misinformation". The US electorate is not interested in playing the policeman role, and especially not interested in paying for it. The whole misinformation and subversion thing has been going on since the beginning of the Soviet Union. Remember the Comintern? Interference in elections? Both sides have done that. What do you think USAID was created for. This is something Zalenski tried to bring up. That was stupid. The world is going back to a more normal state of affairs. The bipolar world lasted about 45 years. The unipolar world about 30 years. In the sweep of human history that is barely a blink of an eye.
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