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Arta Moeini, Nietzschean Doctor
@ArtaMoeini
Research Dir @Diplomacy_Peace | Fellow @CSSatCUA | @Georgetown PhD | I write on Foreign Policy, Modernity, Culture, Post-liberalism, & Radical Realism.
Sep 20, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
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Pleased to report that our latest in-depth @Diplomacy_Peace
Study on the nature, history, & drivers of global U.S. alliance system is now published.

The Blob treats these alliance networks as Sacred Cows to be maintained in perpetuity. Why?

Read on peacediplomacy.org/2022/09/16/tow… US alliances today are maintained out of a perception of their value among the foreign policy establishment rather their actual contribution to core US interests.

US Alliances are identified with US global hegemony & both are seen as ends in themselves. We need a phenomenology.
Jun 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
🚨 In our latest IPD white paper by @ChrisDMott, we review the latest rebrand of the neoliberal martial regime as the "woke imperium".

Systemic adoption of the prevailing moralist trend—'Woke' rhetoric & language of justice—is an ideological cover for US interventionism abroad. Systemic use of moralism in the American national security apparatus has been promoted, & become entrenched, by a highly competitive professional class vying to secure their institutional position by using virtue signaling to demonstrate class solidarity to their higher ranks.
Jun 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Typically smart article by @Tinkzorg @compactmag_ rightly notes that maintaining any empire needs sustaining imperial networks of patronage which US is materially failing at but IMO the totalistic mindcontroling evolution of the Imperium is no coincidence compactmag.com/article/pride-… Cultivation of cosmopolitan bourgeois elites across major societies has a profound effect with the liberal Western elites in role of norm-setter. Such control over access via ideological lipservice creates a prestige-hegemony feedback loop offering a patronage of different kind.
Mar 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Establishment moves seamlessly from generating hysteria around 1 crisis to another. This isnt about the crisis; it isn't about 🇺🇦 or 🇷🇺 or Covid; each is simply an opportunity for fear-mongering using our baser instincts. Reaction-wise, the parallels are eerie & striking. 1 Russia is the new Covid. Our policy: Quarantine the country; block it off with sanctions that won't work to stop the virus (sorry war). Russians are the new unvaxxed—cancel & demonize the whole population. You didnt notice the pandemic was over bc a new one has already started. 2