Thread by @balajis

One of the more interesting kinds of US parochialism is the refusal to accept that other cultures detest wokeness — and recognize it as the next iteration of American imperialism.

Here's Macron himself from last October:
wsj.com/articles/emman…

https://twitter.com/DanielLarison/status/1439415426912559111

@DanielLarison is antiwar, so he should understand why this is a meme — and why the global pushback against Woke America will only grow from here on out.

Others across the political spectrum have also noticed this is old wine in new bottles.

Here's John Gray by way of @tylercowen: "Wokery is the successor ideology of neo-conservatism, a singularly American world-view." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

How can we prove that wokeness is the successor to neo-conservatism?

Well, now that the CIA and military justify their existence in the patois of an Oberlin undergraduate, the obvious next step after invasions-for-democracy is bombing-the-problematic.
independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

Of course, few things are monocausal. Macron has also been looking for ways to "divorce America" & achieve "strategic autonomy".

This is the broader context. Do you really pull the US ambassador over a sub deal, even a big one? Was it that casually done?

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1439140336689762312