I’m reading John Gray’s The New Leviathans. Thank you for the recommendation, reader Cliff Arroyo. I’m loving it. I don’t believe I will necessarily agree with everything (because I never do and what would be the point?) but it’s a narcotically pleasant reading. Here’s a quote:
The fall of Soviet communism and the shift to a market economy in China began an era of delusion in the West. Where markets spread, freedom would follow. A new world order would replace the anarchy of sovereign states. This was the theory of globalization, a mix of dubious economic theory with millennial political fantasies.
A stupid, stupid theory that we are paying for through the nose. Russia was allowed to keep its nukes and was feted and coddled because it had “free markets” and “elections.” Now we are seeing that freedom doesn’t come from markets. It comes from people. If people don’t want freedom, nothing can make them try to be free.
I’m 19 pages into the book, and already it’s giving me more food for thought than anything I’ve read in months.
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How exactly would the U.S. in 1991 have prevented Russia from “keeping its nukes”?
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By not giving them food. Russia only survived as a country because Americans were kind enough to feed them. It was so dumb not to get anything in return for the food and all the rest of the assistance.
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The US took something like 80% of Russia’s nukes, mostly by using the uranium in power plants.
Unfortunately, they had so many to start with, this still leaves them with a lot.
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