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Interview: Trump 2024 comeback would 'solve all of Russia's problems'
2022-07-22
The gentleman does like to get attention by making bold, underly nuanced statements. One assumes hopes that the statements only incompletely reflect his thinking — otherwise Stanford is not getting its money’s worth for his teaching.
[DW] Although Russia may be bluffing with its new offensive, it's crucial for Western cohesion that Ukraine retake its south — particularly if Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
were to make a comeback, says political scientist Francis Fukuyama.


Francis Fukuyama is best known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man," where he argues that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism are the final point of society's evolution.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  A stopped clock is wrong most of the time.
Posted by: KBK   2022-07-22 19:59  

#6  ^^ Actually Plato put democracy after oligarchy but before dictatorship/tyranny.
Posted by: Tom   2022-07-22 12:23  

#5  No, Fukuyama, 'liberal democracy' is an unstable state that occurs before Oligarchy. As a video I remember cogently argued that there were two end states 'Republics' (Rule by 'one law for all') and Oligarchy (rule by a few privileged)...
Posted by: magpie   2022-07-22 10:01  

#4  NY Times columnist admits he was 'wrong' about Trump's supporters, says Russian collusion story was a 'hoax'
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-22 09:08  

#3  ^ someone is living in a fantasy land. British exit and eastern states threatening to do the same as Brussels dictates they commit cultural suicide for foreign invaders. They were never able to get their act together before 1939 and only had a semblance of 'peace' while America and the Soviets state sat on them for 50 years giving them the longest stretch of peace since Rome. Brussels solution appears to be follow the Moscow governing model but with better suits. America should have left when the Wall came down, so Europe could finally 'half life' its existence out of history. It's been a waste of time, lives, and resources keeping the place together like Justinian trying to resurrect the old Roman Empire at the expense of Byzantium's resources.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-22 06:54  

#2  If the NATO countries thought there was a problem, they would be acting on it.

They'll be fine without the USA. They're the world's richest democracies, bound together in an alliance. They just added Sweden and Finland to their strength, plus a long border with Russia. They can easily deal with any problems that come along. They are the adults in the room, not like the stupid Americans who can't even ban guns in their own country.
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933   2022-07-22 05:57  

#1  Has history ended yet Francis?
Posted by: Secret Master   2022-07-22 01:35  

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