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The US's power comes from its ability to project organized violence? What was Vietnam then? And what would have come of the Vietnam era if people could be indiv
by 0_____0 11mo ago
The US's power comes from its ability to project organized violence? What was Vietnam then? And what would have come of the Vietnam era if people could be individually and effortlessly targeted in their daily lives for going against it?
- boat-of-theseus 11mo ago[dead]
- terminalshort 11mo agoAll power flows from the barrel of a gun
- hat_monger 11mo agoFunny how people forget this when their guy gets shot [at]
- fatbird 11mo agowhat would have come of the Vietnam era if people could be individually and effortlessly targeted in their daily lives for going against it? Nothing. The U.S. lost Vietnam, not because it lost battles, but because it offered no governing alternative to Ho Chi Minh that the Vietnamese accepted. Millions of Vietnamese died and still they rejected every colonial gov't the French and then the U.S. tried to prop up. The U.S.'s power coming from its ability to project organized violence is really a statement about the limits of its power. It can blow up anyone it wants to. It still can't remake other countries as it wishes.
- 0_____0 11mo agoWhat you're saying makes sense, and I agreem. But I don't think Karp, as he is described in the article, agrees... -snip- Karp referenced the political scientist Samuel Huntington’s belief that “the rise of the west was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence’.” -snip- Karp seems to be using that idea to pat himself on the back for tapping into the stream of money that flows toward "the guns" so to speak. Does he think about whether the US' global hegemony will flourish under domestic fascism that he's paving the way for?