The entire 400 years of Western defined world history makes a whole lot more sense when you realize oh we’ve just been running off the political logic of global merchant domination for a half millennia. All our default assumptions about politics are derived from those intuitions.

I suspect there is dishonesty and incompetence in all academic disciplines. But economics might be extreme because it is so hierarchical. Institutionally, it seems like the most authoritarian of the social sciences/humanities, making its incentives particularly bad.

Many in Western audiences view Ukraine’s attacks on Russian strategic forces as a move that strengthens Kyiv’s negotiating position. These strikes demonstrate to Russia that Ukraine has capabilities previously thought unimaginable, and signal to the West that Ukraine retains

This has really only worked since 1995 and particularly since Asian Financial Crisis. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the years between 1985 and 1995 when the world routinely fretted about US twin deficits, sold $ & USTs simultaneously, even as US won Cold & Iraq1 Wars.

Human capital is actually the labor theory of value.

notable how many hits i get for secondary lit on history of econ thought from ca. 1943-6 or so. This was the last time economic thinkers were seriously looking back at history. the post-war order was developed by people trying to avoid the mistakes of the post-napoleonic order

In fact, it could be argued that Poland and Turkey are the two big success stories of Europe in the past 20y. Both are relatively big countries. Both grew fast: Poland at 4% per capita per year; Turkey, even faster, at 4.1%. Geopolitical importance of both increased

I spent over 100 hours compiling and analyzing over 5,000 videos of soldiers trying to escape UAV drones — pulling material from Telegram, Reddit, and other sources. Here is what i found out.

You just gotta love this. From a CIA study.

Update: 🇷🇺 Russian units operating in Kursk/Sumy Oblast. - 40th Naval Infantry Brigade & 177th Naval Infantry Regiment redeployed to Andriivka. - 1434th and 1443th Territorial Regiments reinforcing the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade near Novomykolaivka.

Prigozhin was a gangster who did 9 years for robbery, sold hot dogs at the local market, opened casinos and restaurants, became Putin’s caterer, then started a powerful mercenary group — a much more clever, accomplished, and threatening rogue vizier than the Silicon Valley Boer

Who would have thought?! A CIA report from 1982.

In a Dec. 2012 speech Xi Jinping gave to the Expanded Meeting of the Central Military Commission, while warning about the dangers of Western ideology and the need to “prepare for a great struggle” he lamented via idiom: “How can we allow others to sleep soundly beside our bed?”

This is how you end up with a revolution… 🇺🇸

“A Ukrainian drone attack last weekend likely damaged around 10% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet and hit some of the aircraft as they were being prepared for strikes on Ukraine, a senior German military official said. ‘According to our assessment, more than a dozen aircraft

Is everyone fucking nuts? Did we actually believe that after decades and decades of studying the brain and coming up with next to zilch, that a handful of rich, arrogant midwits in Silicon Valley would come to a full understanding of consciousness and deliver to us artificial

This is a truly excellent article that explains why (maybe counter-intuitively for some) China is NOT interested in a "Yalta 2.0" arrangement where the world would be divided in spheres of influence, with them presumably getting Asia (or East and Southeast Asia). I myself

"First, he believes that the Soviet state is a proletarian state because private ownership of means of production has been abolished. Second, he believes that it is a state where bureaucracy has built itself into a new stratum that has vitiated the original (“democratic”)

Ahem