TRIGGERnometry - January 13, 2026


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

Hosted by
Francis Foster Konstantin Kisin
Guests
Konstantin Kisin
Mentioned
Beautiful Noise Franklin Roosevelt Sweet Caroline Robin DiAngelo Mike Berbiglia Hassan Minhaj Michael Geist John Mulaney Fred Armisen Ronnie Chang Nick Kroll TJ Miller Adam Ray Putin Trump Phil
They Tried To Cancel Me So Many Times I Stopped Caring - Greg Gutfeld Hilarious Comedian Jeff Dye： Why the World's Gone Crazy!

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Length

8 minutes

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165.53

Word count

1,387

Sentence count

77

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

3

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Summary

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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.

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, 1.00
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, 1.00
00:04:32.600 woke leftists and neo-isolationists have served as useful idiots 0.99
00:04:36.480 to the people who are actually driving the multipolarity narrative, 0.99
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 1.00
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 1.00
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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