Very insightful article by prof. Hudson. Personally I am leery of ascribing intentions to actors in a world that resembles a kettleful of well-cooked spaghetti. Just picking one string of spaghetti and blaming it for making everything too hot and uncomfortable and ruining it to everyone, be it Putin, MIC or whatever it is convenient for the storyteller to blame. But naming strings of spaghetti and sorting out the specific tangle they are causing - that is helping in seeing how this mess is progressing. And I am not even saying the individual strings of spaghetti do not have intentions: sometimes good and sometimes heinous, but that in the almighty tangle intentions may result in completely different consequences than the original intention. I think this is the core take-out for me: The western elites wanted something, but now they may be getting the opposite of that something. Sorting out anything at all from the tangle of world going about it's business is something that few people have interest in. That is why the best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry. And just looking at it is important, although most people just move on to the next scheme, refusing to learn and just double down on their failing strategies. Personally, I am on the lookout for which breaks first: EU, Nato or US? Or the monetary system? It would be awfully nice if Nato would break before Finland gets to join.
"Rational Actor" assumption is helpful in diplomacy. One must assume that the other-party is rational, acting to further own best interests, but it can be hard to know how the other party sees those own-best-interests. One needs lots of "actionable" information.
All the best rumors are that the US/CIA were behind this, and that Russia informed Erdogan at the last minute, saving his living-ass and foiling the coup. It was clear to Erdogan which way the ill-wind was blowing. Turkey is a "NATO member" now. Erdogan knows which parties are "agreement capable". He's a shameless opportunist, but he's NOT STUPID.
I presume there is Byzantine diplomacy between Erdogan and Putin. They are going to cooperatively de-mine the black sea for wheat-transport ships. Playing nicely...
I think the people of Finland are protected from the immediate threat of NATO membership.
Finnish and other EU politicians are rational-actors , guided by bribes and threats from the western deep-state-swamp and it's owner-financiers.
Their real job is to deliver the people willingly to the orders of Their-Masters.
It's getting hard to deliver people "willingly" to these schemes, and it is not "winterized" without Russian natural gas.
I don't look at nations as "actors". It is hard to see who the "deciders" are these days, absent certain clues like Kissinger (Rockefeller messenger) speaking about policy.
I liked the mindlessness of dance, which can still be "conscious", but not self-conscious, when I was younger. Aerobic mindless-consciousness dancing for hours when I could afford to go out...
I'll keep doing my best to pull clue strings out of the sticky spaghetti for all of us.
Hudson is good. Rockefellers discovered him. I think they protect him, no matter what he says, and he seems to say what he thinks, Aspergery-like...
I'm not a Rockefeller fan. They appear to be less worse than Clinton/Soros and the Bush coteries, though. Less worse... Rockefellers are "rational". They want their global interests to thrive, and get monopolies if possible. They are very interested in maintaining global finance. They see the break approaching, and the frailty of the WEF "Great Reset".
Jun 8, 2022·edited Jun 8, 2022Liked by John Day MD
Rudely commenting myself, but my spaghetti analogy grows from an experience in a weekend conscious dance workshop. The leader had us all draw some kind of own path on a wall-length paper. I guess he expected something beautiful, that people would somehow cooperate in making beauty, but it turned out to become a messy tangle. But looking at it, I realized: Although it all looks like a horrible tangle, I know that my path is in there, and in some spots I can even discern it. Now what would help us begin to turn to cooperation instead of making self-serving individualistic tangles?
Very insightful article by prof. Hudson. Personally I am leery of ascribing intentions to actors in a world that resembles a kettleful of well-cooked spaghetti. Just picking one string of spaghetti and blaming it for making everything too hot and uncomfortable and ruining it to everyone, be it Putin, MIC or whatever it is convenient for the storyteller to blame. But naming strings of spaghetti and sorting out the specific tangle they are causing - that is helping in seeing how this mess is progressing. And I am not even saying the individual strings of spaghetti do not have intentions: sometimes good and sometimes heinous, but that in the almighty tangle intentions may result in completely different consequences than the original intention. I think this is the core take-out for me: The western elites wanted something, but now they may be getting the opposite of that something. Sorting out anything at all from the tangle of world going about it's business is something that few people have interest in. That is why the best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry. And just looking at it is important, although most people just move on to the next scheme, refusing to learn and just double down on their failing strategies. Personally, I am on the lookout for which breaks first: EU, Nato or US? Or the monetary system? It would be awfully nice if Nato would break before Finland gets to join.
"Rational Actor" assumption is helpful in diplomacy. One must assume that the other-party is rational, acting to further own best interests, but it can be hard to know how the other party sees those own-best-interests. One needs lots of "actionable" information.
There was a coup/assassination attempt by Turkish military officers against "Sultan" Erdogan in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/04/turkish-court-finds-soldiers-guilty-erdogan-coup-assassination-plot .
All the best rumors are that the US/CIA were behind this, and that Russia informed Erdogan at the last minute, saving his living-ass and foiling the coup. It was clear to Erdogan which way the ill-wind was blowing. Turkey is a "NATO member" now. Erdogan knows which parties are "agreement capable". He's a shameless opportunist, but he's NOT STUPID.
I presume there is Byzantine diplomacy between Erdogan and Putin. They are going to cooperatively de-mine the black sea for wheat-transport ships. Playing nicely...
I think the people of Finland are protected from the immediate threat of NATO membership.
Finnish and other EU politicians are rational-actors , guided by bribes and threats from the western deep-state-swamp and it's owner-financiers.
Their real job is to deliver the people willingly to the orders of Their-Masters.
It's getting hard to deliver people "willingly" to these schemes, and it is not "winterized" without Russian natural gas.
I don't look at nations as "actors". It is hard to see who the "deciders" are these days, absent certain clues like Kissinger (Rockefeller messenger) speaking about policy.
I liked the mindlessness of dance, which can still be "conscious", but not self-conscious, when I was younger. Aerobic mindless-consciousness dancing for hours when I could afford to go out...
I'll keep doing my best to pull clue strings out of the sticky spaghetti for all of us.
Hudson is good. Rockefellers discovered him. I think they protect him, no matter what he says, and he seems to say what he thinks, Aspergery-like...
I'm not a Rockefeller fan. They appear to be less worse than Clinton/Soros and the Bush coteries, though. Less worse... Rockefellers are "rational". They want their global interests to thrive, and get monopolies if possible. They are very interested in maintaining global finance. They see the break approaching, and the frailty of the WEF "Great Reset".
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Rudely commenting myself, but my spaghetti analogy grows from an experience in a weekend conscious dance workshop. The leader had us all draw some kind of own path on a wall-length paper. I guess he expected something beautiful, that people would somehow cooperate in making beauty, but it turned out to become a messy tangle. But looking at it, I realized: Although it all looks like a horrible tangle, I know that my path is in there, and in some spots I can even discern it. Now what would help us begin to turn to cooperation instead of making self-serving individualistic tangles?
It's not rude. I have further thoughts about things regularly
Black Krim are delicious! I grow them too.
More pictures soon. extended tomato-canning session last night...