RadixJournal - March 11, 2026


Israel as The Center of The World

Topics
multipolarity ideology
Hosted by
Richard Spencer
Mentioned
Alexander Dugan Muhammad Herzl Chang
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10 minutes

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128.87

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1,322

Sentence count

89

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1

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9

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11

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In this episode, I talk about the rise of multipolarism in the post-World War II world, and why I don t think it works. I also talk about why Israel might be playing a different game in an emerging multipolar world.

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00:00:00.000 So there is multipolarity as a kind of ideology, and then there is multipolarity as a description.
00:00:07.740 So multipolarity as an ideology is deriving from Alexander Dugan and people around him.
00:00:16.180 And it is a kind of liberalism for the world where all of these great, like, gross realms can have their, like, indigenous cultures and do whatever they want, but how dare a one gross realm invade another? 0.91
00:00:35.380 There's the American realm, and that's fine. You do you, babe. But how dare you even contemplate interfering in the Russian realm?
00:00:47.720 And the Russian realm is basically structured around the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, more or less, and they can just do whatever they want.
00:00:57.640 So it's a kind of convenient ideology for someone like Dugan to put forward and to put forward through his many acolytes in the sense that Russia has its own really serious problems.
00:01:11.820 Russia can't win wars, at least against countries that are getting backed by NATO.
00:01:19.580 NATO troops are never on the ground, but they're getting, they're certainly getting backing.
00:01:23.120 They can't win these wars. And worse still, the Russian realm is less attractive, in fact, than the Soviet Union. 0.83
00:01:33.920 And the Soviet Union dealt with this sort of delegitimacy crisis.
00:01:38.560 But Russia really deals with it. No one wants to be a part of the Russian realm. 0.99
00:01:43.120 And I've said this before, but I know this is like a Twitter meme, but it's also one of the few Twitter memes that's 100% accurate,
00:01:51.480 which is that NATO expands through handshakes and consensus and through basically popularity among the people.
00:02:02.660 Ditto the European Union, different related thing.
00:02:06.000 Russia only expands through tanks and claiming that there are Russian speakers in another country that Russia must protect for some reason.
00:02:17.440 And that's it. No one wants to be a part of that world.
00:02:21.400 And that's just a brutal reality that Russia has no answer for.
00:02:25.620 But so basically, multipolarity as an ideology is highly convenient for the Russians, let's just to put it mildly.
00:02:35.500 But there's also multipolarity as a kind of description that is, regardless of the theorizing of Alexander Dugan, are we entering a multipolar world?
00:02:50.600 Now, my view is that I don't think we're ever going to enter a truly multipolar world due to advances in technology, communications,
00:03:04.240 the spread of a lingua franca around the planet, the creation of a almost homogeneous man, basically.
00:03:14.240 Nietzsche was talking about this in terms of Europe, where he wanted to, even then in the mid to late 19th century,
00:03:22.820 just move past nationalism, etc., because we already have a European man that exists.
00:03:31.000 And this, of course, is in the age of train travel and the telegraph and maybe some precedents for things like the automobile and highways and telephones and computers, etc.
00:03:41.820 But he recognized that even then.
00:03:45.820 Certainly, universal Christianity is a major part of this as well, and the kind of universalism and egalitarianism that entails.
00:03:54.020 So I basically agree with Nietzsche that multipolarity is not going to happen.
00:04:00.460 Like, we live in a society, but we live on a planet, and we can talk to each other immediately on a planet.
00:04:07.520 What happens somewhere happens everywhere due to the technology of the internet and web.
00:04:15.780 And we are creating, for better and for worse, a sort of homogeneous mankind that thinks of himself as bearing rights and as dignified and as a good-consuming citizen.
00:04:33.600 So I don't think that multipolarity works.
00:04:38.460 I think it's a kind of trad LARP, in fact, coming from Duganism as an ideology, but I don't think it works even as a kind of analysis of what's happening.
00:04:48.500 But I think that Israel might very well be playing different games in an emerging multipolar world, in its perception, and at least in its perception that the United States' days are behind them.
00:05:08.980 The best days are behind us.
00:05:10.500 Whatever Herzl wanted, whatever the early Zionists wanted, they were in many ways, not necessarily Soviet, but certainly socialist and communist, nationalist, Jews.
00:05:29.140 Stop being these bankers, being in Vienna and Paris.
00:05:33.240 Go get on the land and start farming and, yeah, you should work out and start taking supplements. 0.96
00:05:39.860 You should deadlift 500 at the very least, fellow Jews. 1.00
00:05:43.120 That was the line back in the day.
00:05:46.580 And there was a, as Zionism developed, it became part of an American empire.
00:05:54.480 And so for a very long time, there was a notion that we are Pax Americana's military base or aircraft carrier in the Middle East.
00:06:04.220 We love free markets.
00:06:05.880 We have a tech industry.
00:06:07.280 We're basically Americans.
00:06:09.360 And, of course, you should support us.
00:06:11.380 We're the only democracy in the Middle East.
00:06:13.100 And that's not true, of course.
00:06:14.020 But we're the only American-style democracy in the Middle East.
00:06:17.000 There was just this embrace of the West, and that existed uncomfortably with Israeli identity and even Israeli hopes and dreams of expansion and hegemony and et cetera.
00:06:35.260 But I don't know, maybe Israel is trying to sell itself as the center of the world in an increasingly multipolar world.
00:06:48.320 And what I mean by this is that, like, the classic theory of the center of the universe is Mackinder and its heartland theory, and it is about natural resource production, et cetera.
00:07:05.760 But there's also a kind of, like, spiritual center of the world as well.
00:07:11.660 And Israel benefits from the fact that is Jerusalem. 0.85
00:07:16.220 And so evangelical Christians believe that this is where Jesus is going to return to us.
00:07:24.820 And Jesus walked on the sand in what is Israeli and, I guess, in many cases, Palestinian territory, Bethlehem's in Palestine, et cetera.
00:07:35.900 But that's his place.
00:07:37.880 And it makes sense to them in some weird way that the Jews should be in charge of it. 1.00
00:07:43.860 Jerusalem remains the center of the world in Muslim apocalyptic scenarios, as Jerusalem also plays a major factor there. 1.00
00:07:56.660 And, of course, Professor Chang might be wrong about some things, but I did see that he had a clip where he was right, that the Jews wrote the Koran, by the way. 0.97
00:08:05.920 And much like they created Christianity, they also created Islam. 0.97
00:08:11.200 And lo and behold, it functions in a kind of parallel structural way as Christian end times philosophy.
00:08:20.140 And Jerusalem is right at the center of it.
00:08:22.860 That's where Muhammad took his ride all the way to Jerusalem and back. 0.95
00:08:28.060 So Israel might very well want to become or remain a kind of spiritual center of the universe.
00:08:36.920 There's like a heartland theory where Israel, but it's about religion.
00:08:42.540 And Christians in America will love it.
00:08:45.360 Europeans, too much atheism.
00:08:47.000 But some of them will love it.
00:08:49.920 We'll have some economic dealings with China.
00:08:53.080 We're still working on them.
00:08:54.140 Russia, we have deep ties that go back a long way.
00:08:58.380 We'll keep a finger in that pie and foot in that camp, so to speak. 0.96
00:09:03.940 But the Islamic world, they hate us. 1.00
00:09:07.700 They're bastards. 1.00
00:09:09.620 But they ultimately just can't help but love us or can't help but feel that we are immensely important, as we are, to their religion. 0.99
00:09:19.040 And so this is something, as I said, I'm still working on this idea, but there's a heartland theory revolving around natural resources.
00:09:29.100 But there's also a sort of heartland theory revolving around spirituality.
00:09:33.160 And if the heartland of natural resources is Ukraine or things like that, the heartland of spirituality is Jerusalem.
00:09:42.120 And I think Israel is working out how it can deal with a post-Pax Americana world.
00:09:50.600 America's falling. 0.60
00:09:51.540 It's a degenerate, only fan society.
00:09:57.120 Nothing lasts forever.
00:09:58.760 30, 40 trillion in debt. 0.97
00:10:01.100 Are you even fucking kidding me at this point? 0.97
00:10:03.260 They see the writing on the wall. 0.95
00:10:05.800 And they might want to start finding new ways of being the center of the universe in an increasingly multipolar world.
00:10:13.980 Just something I've been thinking about.