Congratulations, the Multipolar World You Ordered Is Here - Konstantin Kisin
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the rise of neo-isolationism in the West, and how it relates to the end of the post-war order and the coming of a multipolar world, and why the two groups that have been most celebrated the most about the coming multipolarized world are also the ones complaining about its consequences.
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Congratulations, the multipolar world you ordered is here, and now we all get to suffer the consequences.
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For several years now, there's been much talk about the end of the post-war order and the coming of a multipolar world.
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The desirability of this wonderful new arrangement has been pushed by three groups.
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Naive woke leftists, similarly naive isolationists, and of course, and above all, our enemies.
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Western progressives view the world through a simple, warped, but powerful lens.
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Their approach to global politics is exactly the same as their view of domestic politics,
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and is based on the appealing but misguided idea that success is always and everywhere the product of unearned, ill-gotten privilege.
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Their antipathy towards the West, white people, men, Jews, and the rich stems from this basic formula.
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Whoever is doing well must be doing so at the expense of others.
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To them, any imbalance in wealth, income, influence, and so forth is necessarily bad and to be corrected.
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At the domestic level, the culmination of this worldview is their demand for social justice,
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a forced redistribution of wealth, influence, and opportunity from the oppressors to the oppressed.
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You don't need to be a Robin DiAngelo acolyte to see how this Marxist dynamic extends to global affairs.
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Social justice at home becomes global justice abroad.
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If the world is unequal, which it is, then that must be corrected.
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The extraordinary ignorance of the world beyond the borders of the safe, peaceful, and civilized countries they live in
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is extremely helpful in this regard because it prevents them from seeing that peace, stability, and prosperity
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are the products of culture, science, and innovation.
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Instead, they argue that the West's recent dominance is a product of colonialism, racism, and imperialism.
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They hate the West for being successful and want a multipolar world as both a punishment and a corrective.
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The isolationists, on the other hand, are primarily an American phenomenon,
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albeit one which has spread to other parts of the West,
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along with every other aspect of American culture.
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I have some sympathy for their instincts, even though they are, in my view,
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as misguided as the woke left about the way the world actually works.
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I well understand the feeling of a man living a comfortable life in rural Ohio
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being asked to care about events happening halfway around the world.
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When I sit on the porch of my Airbnb somewhere in the middle of America,
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I find it much harder to care about those events too.
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For this reason, among others, isolationism has always existed in American history
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who orchestrated America's support for Britain
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during World War II and his country's eventual full involvement in that conflict,
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had to tread extremely carefully around this faction until Pearl Harbor.
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The outcome of that war, an overwhelming moral and military victory over indisputable evil,
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But the horrors of Vietnam, compounded by the trillion-dollar disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq,
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have understandably produced a powerful backlash against interventionism.
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America can't be the world's policeman when they cry.
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Unfortunately, simple slogans are rarely true and inevitably leave out much-needed context.
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America accounts for 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its GDP.
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Much of this is due to geography, natural resource wealth, and the ingenuity and drive of her people.
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But much of it also stems from the fact that America is the world's most powerful country,
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an advantage she uses with great skill to get the best deals, secure access to resources,
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and shape global affairs in a way that benefits her and her allies.
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To pretend that Americans can continue to enjoy unprecedented prosperity, security, and peace
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as their country completely withdraws from global affairs is to misunderstand the way the world works.
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The two groups that have most celebrated the coming multipolar world
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are now also the ones complaining the most about its consequences.
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And that is because, despite their good intentions,
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woke leftists and neo-isolationists have served as useful idiots
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to the people who are actually driving the multipolarity narrative,
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hostile foreign powers that feel it is their moment to end American hegemony.
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China's economic growth and Russia's recovery from the collapse of the USSR
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occurred at precisely the same time as the collapse of the West's moral, economic, and military authority.
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The shifting balance of power naturally produced a hunger for a different arrangement.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the terrorist attack of October 7th,
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and China's increasingly open coveting of Taiwan
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are all signs of a deeper geopolitical realignment.
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For the moment, the demographic and economic tide has swung powerfully against the West.
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Our enemies are emboldened by their growing strength,
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encouraged by our weakness, and no longer constrained by international law,
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which was only ever worth the paper it was written on
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while the U.S. was willing to act as the world's policeman.
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Europe, and Britain especially, are particularly responsible for the sorry state of affairs.
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We've degraded our militaries to the point where,
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despite our technological and scientific superiority,
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the courage of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen,
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and the rich military tradition Britain in particular can be so proud of,
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we are not a useful ally to the United States anymore.
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The condition of armed forces is matched only by the degradation of our culture
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and the economic suicide we've committed over the last two decades.
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Unprecedented, unwanted, and unassimilable levels of mass immigration
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have broadened millions of people who would never fight for our country,
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in which native young people understandably have little desire
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to fight for politicians who've betrayed the future they were owed.
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Unaffordable welfare spending has been paired with the purposeful destruction
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Our deluded attempt to save the planet has rightly been called net zero
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because it has produced zero growth for two decades.
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Britain's GDP per capita is lower today than it was 20 years ago.
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Germany, meanwhile, famously shut down its nuclear power plants
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for ideological reasons, making itself entirely reliant on Russian energy.
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Germany's initial response was to send a few helmets.
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What will this beautiful multipolar world look like?
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The easiest way to understand the geopolitics of the next decade
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For two decades now, that country has been a war zone
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with dozens of drug cartels fighting for territory, influence, and resources.
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What happens when one is weakened or decapitated?
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The same thing that always happens when there's a power vacuum,
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As I tried to explain to Yanis Varoufakis in this debate,
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a multipolar world is by definition a more unstable, violent world.
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This is why it's highly regrettable that we've arrived here.
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It's also why President Trump is doing the only thing he can
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