Небезызвестный Нил Фергюсон написал немного алармистскую, но тем не менее не лишенную оснований статью о кризисных явлениях в современных США. Он прошелся по всему спектру проблем начиная от дисфункциональной системы здравоохранения и вплоть до современной сумасшедшей идеологии помощи всякого рода меньшинствам и ее производным (единственным бенефициаром которой на деле является номенклатура демпартии). Крайне рекомендую к ознакомлению, однако хотелось бы предостеречь от попыток использовать данный текст в качестве аргумента в духе «ватабутизма», потому что как известно когда в Стамбуле стригут ногти, в провинции рубят пальцы. А уж если в Вашингтоне начали рубить пальцы, то периферия рискует и вовсе остаться без рук…

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The equivalent falsehoods in late Soviet America are that the institutions controlled by the (Democratic) Party—the federal bureaucracy, the universities, the major foundations, and most of the big corporations—are devoted to advancing hitherto marginalized racial and sexual minorities, and that the principal goals of U.S. foreign policy are to combat climate change and (as Jake Sullivan puts it) to help other countries defend themselves “without sending U.S. troops to war.”
In reality, policies to promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” do nothing to help poor minorities. Instead, the sole beneficiaries appear to be a horde of apparatchik DEI “officers.” In the meantime, these initiatives are clearly undermining educational standards, even at elite medical schools, and encouraging the mutilation of thousands of teenagers in the name of “gender-affirming surgery.”
As for the current direction of U.S. foreign policy, it is not so much to help other countries defend themselves as to egg on others to fight our adversaries as proxies without supplying them with sufficient weaponry to stand much chance of winning.

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A bogus ideology that hardly anyone really believes in, but everyone has to parrot unless they want to be labeled dissidents—sorry, I mean deplorables? Check. A population that no longer regards patriotism, religion, having children, or community involvement as important? Check. How about a massive disaster that lays bare the utter incompetence and mendacity that pervades every level of government? For Chernobyl, read Covid. And, while I make no claims to legal expertise, I think I recognize Soviet justice when I see—in a New York courtroom—the legal system being abused in the hope not just of imprisoning but also of discrediting the leader of the political opposition.