TRIGGERnometry - January 13, 2026


Congratulations, the Multipolar World You Ordered Is Here - Konstantin Kisin


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

165.53288

Word Count

1,387

Sentence Count

77

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Congratulations, the multipolar world you ordered is here, and now we all get to suffer the consequences.
00:00:40.600 For several years now, there's been much talk about the end of the post-war order and the coming of a multipolar world.
00:00:46.940 The desirability of this wonderful new arrangement has been pushed by three groups.
00:00:51.140 Naive woke leftists, similarly naive isolationists, and of course, and above all, our enemies.
00:00:56.660 Each had their reasons.
00:00:58.000 Western progressives view the world through a simple, warped, but powerful lens.
00:01:02.680 Their approach to global politics is exactly the same as their view of domestic politics,
00:01:07.340 and is based on the appealing but misguided idea that success is always and everywhere the product of unearned, ill-gotten privilege.
00:01:14.960 Their antipathy towards the West, white people, men, Jews, and the rich stems from this basic formula.
00:01:21.200 Whoever is doing well must be doing so at the expense of others.
00:01:25.420 To them, any imbalance in wealth, income, influence, and so forth is necessarily bad and to be corrected.
00:01:32.060 At the domestic level, the culmination of this worldview is their demand for social justice,
00:01:37.180 a forced redistribution of wealth, influence, and opportunity from the oppressors to the oppressed.
00:01:42.820 You don't need to be a Robin DiAngelo acolyte to see how this Marxist dynamic extends to global affairs.
00:01:49.560 Social justice at home becomes global justice abroad.
00:01:53.680 If the world is unequal, which it is, then that must be corrected.
00:01:57.800 The extraordinary ignorance of the world beyond the borders of the safe, peaceful, and civilized countries they live in
00:02:02.960 is extremely helpful in this regard because it prevents them from seeing that peace, stability, and prosperity
00:02:08.600 are the products of culture, science, and innovation.
00:02:12.180 Instead, they argue that the West's recent dominance is a product of colonialism, racism, and imperialism.
00:02:17.600 They hate the West for being successful and want a multipolar world as both a punishment and a corrective.
00:02:23.940 The isolationists, on the other hand, are primarily an American phenomenon,
00:02:27.540 albeit one which has spread to other parts of the West,
00:02:30.140 along with every other aspect of American culture.
00:02:33.540 I have some sympathy for their instincts, even though they are, in my view,
00:02:37.060 as misguided as the woke left about the way the world actually works.
00:02:40.740 Having traveled extensively around America,
00:02:43.180 I well understand the feeling of a man living a comfortable life in rural Ohio
00:02:47.200 being asked to care about events happening halfway around the world.
00:02:51.300 When I sit on the porch of my Airbnb somewhere in the middle of America,
00:02:54.880 I find it much harder to care about those events too.
00:02:57.980 For this reason, among others, isolationism has always existed in American history
00:03:03.260 and was particularly powerful in the 1930s.
00:03:05.960 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who orchestrated America's support for Britain
00:03:10.160 during World War II and his country's eventual full involvement in that conflict,
00:03:14.660 had to tread extremely carefully around this faction until Pearl Harbor.
00:03:18.680 The outcome of that war, an overwhelming moral and military victory over indisputable evil,
00:03:24.140 kept isolationists quiet for some time.
00:03:26.420 But the horrors of Vietnam, compounded by the trillion-dollar disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq,
00:03:32.080 have understandably produced a powerful backlash against interventionism.
00:03:36.520 America can't be the world's policeman when they cry.
00:03:39.400 Unfortunately, simple slogans are rarely true and inevitably leave out much-needed context.
00:03:44.740 America accounts for 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its GDP.
00:03:50.380 Much of this is due to geography, natural resource wealth, and the ingenuity and drive of her people.
00:03:55.580 But much of it also stems from the fact that America is the world's most powerful country,
00:04:00.460 an advantage she uses with great skill to get the best deals, secure access to resources,
00:04:05.820 and shape global affairs in a way that benefits her and her allies.
00:04:09.700 To pretend that Americans can continue to enjoy unprecedented prosperity, security, and peace
00:04:14.900 as their country completely withdraws from global affairs is to misunderstand the way the world works.
00:04:20.440 There's a strange irony here.
00:04:22.320 The two groups that have most celebrated the coming multipolar world
00:04:25.680 are now also the ones complaining the most about its consequences.
00:04:29.620 And that is because, despite their good intentions,
00:04:32.600 woke leftists and neo-isolationists have served as useful idiots
00:04:36.480 to the people who are actually driving the multipolarity narrative,
00:04:40.360 hostile foreign powers that feel it is their moment to end American hegemony.
00:04:44.580 China's economic growth and Russia's recovery from the collapse of the USSR
00:04:48.580 occurred at precisely the same time as the collapse of the West's moral, economic, and military authority.
00:04:55.060 The shifting balance of power naturally produced a hunger for a different arrangement.
00:04:59.480 Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the terrorist attack of October 7th,
00:05:03.120 and China's increasingly open coveting of Taiwan
00:05:05.620 are all signs of a deeper geopolitical realignment.
00:05:08.800 For the moment, the demographic and economic tide has swung powerfully against the West.
00:05:14.500 Our enemies are emboldened by their growing strength,
00:05:17.600 encouraged by our weakness, and no longer constrained by international law,
00:05:21.540 which was only ever worth the paper it was written on
00:05:23.800 while the U.S. was willing to act as the world's policeman.
00:05:26.800 Europe, and Britain especially, are particularly responsible for the sorry state of affairs.
00:05:31.400 We've degraded our militaries to the point where,
00:05:33.800 despite our technological and scientific superiority,
00:05:35.800 the courage of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen,
00:05:39.280 and the rich military tradition Britain in particular can be so proud of,
00:05:43.020 we are not a useful ally to the United States anymore.
00:05:46.480 The condition of armed forces is matched only by the degradation of our culture
00:05:50.420 and the economic suicide we've committed over the last two decades.
00:05:54.300 Unprecedented, unwanted, and unassimilable levels of mass immigration
00:05:58.200 have broadened millions of people who would never fight for our country,
00:06:02.080 while at the same time creating an environment
00:06:04.160 in which native young people understandably have little desire
00:06:07.540 to fight for politicians who've betrayed the future they were owed.
00:06:11.180 Nowhere is this more true than the economy.
00:06:13.680 Unaffordable welfare spending has been paired with the purposeful destruction
00:06:17.080 of a manufacturing and industrial base.
00:06:19.640 Our deluded attempt to save the planet has rightly been called net zero
00:06:23.780 because it has produced zero growth for two decades.
00:06:26.960 Britain's GDP per capita is lower today than it was 20 years ago.
00:06:30.620 Germany, meanwhile, famously shut down its nuclear power plants
00:06:34.020 for ideological reasons, making itself entirely reliant on Russian energy.
00:06:38.720 The result?
00:06:39.580 When Putin invaded Ukraine,
00:06:41.480 Germany's initial response was to send a few helmets.
00:06:44.620 Europe has been living in a dream world,
00:06:46.920 and the rude awakening is here.
00:06:48.780 So where does that leave us?
00:06:50.120 What will this beautiful multipolar world look like?
00:06:52.640 The easiest way to understand the geopolitics of the next decade
00:06:55.780 is to look at Mexico.
00:06:57.000 For two decades now, that country has been a war zone
00:07:00.080 with dozens of drug cartels fighting for territory, influence, and resources.
00:07:04.740 What happens when one is weakened or decapitated?
00:07:07.460 The same thing that always happens when there's a power vacuum,
00:07:11.040 a power struggle.
00:07:12.560 As I tried to explain to Yanis Varoufakis in this debate,
00:07:16.100 a multipolar world is by definition a more unstable, violent world.
00:07:20.540 This is why it's highly regrettable that we've arrived here.
00:07:23.320 It's also why President Trump is doing the only thing he can
00:07:26.740 under the circumstances.
00:07:28.120 The best thing he can for his cartel.
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