From interviews, I don't think Thiel is, or ever has been a patriot. Nor do I think he ever pretended to be. He backed Trump because he's bullish on the nation-

From interviews, I don't think Thiel is, or ever has been a patriot. Nor do I think he ever pretended to be. He backed Trump because he's bullish on the nation-state, and his aims of greater self-sovereignty are in opposition to a more homogenous and coordinated global order. Internationalist America has systematically crushed anything new that might pose a threat to the global order, something autonomous floating nations might do. Bilateral America's self-interested realpolitik approach under Trump was much less interested in the state of the rest of the world, provided it gave the nation what it wanted (in theory, ofc. The foreign policy establishment did everything it could to maintain business as usual).