Private equity investor / former co-founder into geopolitics, art, tech, psych
Dec 11, 2022 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
One reason #conspiracies thrive is most humans need simple narratives to make sense of the world. When faced w/complex uncertainties, they revert from positivism, empiricism and logic to metaphysics, myth and superstition to fill the dark abyss where meaning should be. @NovelScitwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This is because the ways they used to determine what is true no longer seem to work. It’s inexplicable why they lost their job or why they can’t seem to move up the social hierarchy or why they can’t find a mate. The reasons are not clear, so a narrative fills the void.
Oct 27, 2022 • 20 tweets • 16 min read
One of Mike Lee's largest donors was a lobbyist for Russia's 2nd largest bank. Let's get into it.
How Russians Define Nazism: interesting paper explaining how a Russians’ definition of Nazism is really anyone who opposes Russian imperialism. @domenpresern@SalomeTseretely
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Why Russians think Jews are Fascists: “The standard Soviet interpretations of fascism as the dictatorship of financial capital have sometimes been linked to anti-Semitic trends in Russian publicism above all to theories that present Zionism as a form of fascism”. @domenpresern
Apr 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
As we consider a heavily armored Russian advance in the east of @Ukraine, @VZaluzhnyi & @DefenceU continue to keep in mind the strategy of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus — “The Delayer” — who fought a war of attrition against #HannibalBarca in Ancient Rome 1/ @TheStudyofWar
As you are well aware, Fabius knew he couldn’t go head to head with Hannibal on the battlefield. There’s an argument to be made that even with armored reinforcements, playing against Russia on an open field of combat might not be the best strategy. 2/
Apr 5, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
“Dismantling the Russian state” is a very dangerous idea. By “dismantling” what you actually mean is disrupting Russia so much that the government collapses—a government with the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet. 1/
An autocratic strongman at the head of Russia is all but inevitable at this point even if Putin’s regime fails. What we need is simply a Russia that is stable & secure and preferably not hell bent on realizing imperialistic totalitarian revenge fantasies against the west.
