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Frank Kuma's avatar

What a great, eye opening assessment of the world political structure. I believe that Mark Carney sees it this way. I'm sure that Trump does not.

I truly appreciate all of your posts. Far more indepth and informative than most, while being straightforward and fair.

Gordon's avatar

I really enjoy learning about the world though your knowledge and perspective. I appreciate you.

The Vertical Dispatch's avatar

Thank you brother

Meg Salter's avatar

More people are now recognizing the US as an empire, particularly now that over reach is starting to reveal itself. Also acknowledge the length and endurance of a civilizational mindset. China and India. Yet what about this amorphous shape we call Western civilization? Iran as a birth place ? Or Ancient Greece? It used to be called Christendom. What is there underneath the shifting shapes of nation states? Particularly where this western mindset meets indigenous peoples in the Americas.

I wonder about the notions of equality among peoples, the relative freedom of women and every soul as an expression of G*d