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Bird's Brain's avatar

"Foreign policy shaped by grievance rather than strategic interest doesn't just warp alliances—it creates instability that adversaries can exploit." That's the point, isn't it? To break down the west and reform this section of it into the regional technate the technocrats have aspired to for generations.

As a Canadian, it is indeed strange to watch so many pretend that Canada is the biggest threat to the US, simply because their would-be hero says it's so against all evidence to the contrary. It reminds me of the cognitive dissonance during the Covid years ... one way to tell that it's a narrative with an agenda to be rolled out later at "warp speed" no doubt.

Thanks for noting this glimmer of hope in a landscape where group think dominates.

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Jasen Robillard's avatar

We’ve swung from one type of sacred cow to another. The Trump-Right alliance has taken what they disliked about the woke, Left-leaning, grievance-motivated activism, and adopted it as a tool with their own standards for what is noble, sacred and pure (and therefore allowed). Grievance as a default post-modern perspectival lens has been weaponized as a destructive “wildfire” force. It’s a dismantling force that works for all sides, against all.

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