Category Archives: Imperialism

Robert Stark talks to Constantin von Hoffmeister about the Iran War

Afghanistan, Africa, anti-semitism, Arabs, automation, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, China, colonialism, Constantin von Hoffmeister, Culture, demographics, Depravity, Donald Trump, Economics, energy, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, George Bush, Germany, Globalization, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Isis, Islam, Islamization, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Latin America, Los Angeles, Michel Houellebecq, Middle East, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Oil, Politics, Reza Pahlavi, Saudi Arabia, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Ukraine, War, Zoroastrianism

Robert Stark speaks with German journalist and author, Constantin von Hoffmeister, about the geopolitics of the Iran War. Constantin is director of the online publishing house,  Multipolar Press, and has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia. Constantin has a new book out, The Fate of White America. Follow him on X and subscribe to his Substack, Eurosiberia. (update: this podcast was recorded last week during the ceasefire and the war is escalating again today)

Topics:

-The case that the Iran war was for Israel and whether antisemitic narratives deny Trump culpability
-How Trump did not even bother with a propaganda campaign for the war
-How the US attack was entirely unprovoked, which along with attacks on Iranian civilians, discredits the Trump admin
-How Israel wants Iran totally destroyed rather than regime change
-Why Iran is rational for seeking nuclear armament, and how mutual self-destruction maintains peace
-How Iran is a civilizational state unlike Arab or Latin American nations
-Contrasting the failed Iran war with Trump’s successful invasion of Venezuela
-How ironically this war would be less likely under an establishment president
-The absurdity of Trump’s statements and lack of any coherent plans
-How Trump admitted to arming protesters to get protesters harmed rather than regime change
-The violation of the reciprocity principle in bombing anti-regime Iranians and why Constantin is skeptical of any large-scale opposition to the government, even before the war
-The pro-Shah, pro-Israel demonstrations among the Iranian diaspora
-Why Constantin considers the term “regime” to be propaganda
-How the US is desperately failing to prevent a multipolar order which this war is ushering in
–Prof. Robert Pape on the escalation trap in which Iran has gained the upper hand by controlling the Strait of Hormuz 
-How long can the status quo of a stalemate with a blockade of the Strait last?
-How this war exposes America as a paper tiger
-War rhetoric as market manipulation to save the stock market and keep petrol prices down
-The impacts of rising petrol prices on geopolitics and the global economy
-How a fertilizer shortage will cause a global famine that will cause a massive refugee crisis into Europe
–Nigeria now has more births than all of Europe, including Russia
-Trump’s immigration policy of performative cruelty without deporting that many people
-How America will shift from being a world power to a regional power in the Western Hemisphere
-The Russia/Ukraine war; Russia as the aggressor from the non-aggression principle vs the argument that Russia’s geopolitical sphere was threatened
-Revisiting the past when Iran offered an olive branch to the US after 9/11
-How Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was successful, which Trump ripped up, discrediting diplomatic trust in the US
-How the war squanders any of Trump’s positive policy accomplishments and discredits nationalism and the Right
-Would we be better off if Kamala were president?
-Why Robert thinks that automation will reverse immigration to America in the long term, though not for Europe
-The impact of Trump and the war on Europe’s politics, and how Germany’s AFD is successfully distancing themselves from Trump
-An accelerationist case in favor of Trump weakening American imperialism and ending the American establishment’s soft power
-How radical Islam is primarily a Sunni, not Shia, problem (eg. Sunni extremist iconoclasm)
-How Islamophobia detracts from the culpability of Western elites
-Michel Houellebecq’s prophetic novel, Submission, about an Islamic takeover of France, which is ambiguous about whether that is a good or bad thing
-How remigration is unworkable and ethnopluralism as an alternative
-The Indo-Aryan connection between Iranians and Europeans, and remnants of pre-Islamic paganism in Iran
-How Israel was semi sane when it was more Ashkenazi, thus closer to Europe, and how it is just becoming another Middle Eastern country
-Whether Zionism could have worked if it didn’t embrace imperialism

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about The 2024 Election

automation, Bernie Sanders, capitalism, censorship, Class, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, History, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Keith Preston, Leftism, Managerialism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Police State, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Republican Party, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Russia, Silicon Valley, Socialism, terrorism, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Wall Street, War

Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the 2024 election and the politics of America’s power elite. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.

Topics:

-Factions of America’s ruling class, including the Northeastern establishment, Sunbelt capitalist class, and Wall Street and Silicon Valley new money
-What conspiracy theorists get wrong about the nature of power
-How elites cultivate constituencies
-How the elite’s opposition to Trump is more about decorum and instability than policy
-Keith’s prediction that the elites will negotiate a deal with Trump
-Keith’s prediction that Trump will govern as a normie moderate Republican for his 2nd Term
-The Israel Lobby favoring Trump over Biden
-How the Israel conflict is weakening wokeness and the alliance between progressives and the neoliberal establishment
-Why Biden’s re-election is better from an anti-establishment standpoint
-America’s three political blocks, MAGA Nationalist Populists, Centrist Neoliberals, and the Progressive Left
-How the Nationalist Right will further radicalize with limited growth potential
-Why partisan cycles favor Democrats over the next few decades
-The political realignment over social class
-The hyper-capitalist Sunbelt elite as a barrier to the GOP turning populist on economics
-Why Trumpenomics will likely be inflationary
-The risks of the Ukraine and Israel wars escalating
-The Europhile Northeastern establishment and Europhobic Sunbelt’s divide over Ukraine
-Speculating whether Trump or Biden will win
-RFK’s JR.’s brand of bourgeoise bohemian Centrist Populism
-The hysteria over the election, such as about Project 2025
-Why Democrats are hesitant to replace Joe Biden but plan to replace him with Kamala Harris after the election
-Why Biden is the lesser of evils compared to Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris
-Why America’s elites’ mercantile nature means that full blown totalitarianism is not likely in America

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the Ukraine War

Afghanistan, American Culture, American Exceptionalism, Anarchism, Armenia, Asia, Barack Obama, Caleb Maupin, censorship, China, Communism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, cryptocurrency, Cuba, Culture, decentralization, Donald Trump, Economics, Europe, George Bush, Georgia(Nation), Globalization, Hillary Clinton, humanitarianism, Imperialism, income inequality, India, Iran, Israel, Joe Biden, Keith Preston, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marxism, Middle East, Nationalism, NATO, neo-tribalism, Neoconservatism, Paul Gottfried, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Social Media, terrorism, The Cold War, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, War

Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter.

Topics:

The Geopolitical background of the conflict, the unprovoked narrative, and NATO expansion
How sanctions often fail at their intention of brining about regime change
How the conflict is accelerating geopolitical realignments and the bifurcation between the West and a Eurasian block
The motives and military strategy of the Ukrainian government
Whether the Russian invasion of Ukraine would have been less likely to have happened under Trump
Neo-McCarthyism, Russo-phobia, and the crackdown on civil liberties
The rise in a convoluted hybrid of American nationalism and woke culture
Worst case scenarios of the war escalating into direct conflict between Russia and the US and NATO
The fragmentation and polarization of American society, enclavism and Bill Bishop’s Big Sort
Supply chain issues and the potential for a global economic crisis

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Robert Stark interviews Nathanael Gould

aesthetics, Alt Center, Alternative Right, Ben Winegard, Canada, Cape Party, Cape Town, capitalism, Class, Classical Liberalism, colonialism, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron, England, Éric Zemmour, ethnopluralism, Globalization, History, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Imperialism, James O'Meara, Jonathan Edwards, Leftism, Liberalism, Matthew Pegas, Middle Class, Milo, Morality, Nathanael Gould, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Radical Center, Sexuality, South Africa

Robert Stark and co-host Jonathan Edwards talk to Nathanael Gould about South Africa, Anglo identity, and the need for a non-woke gay identity. Nathanael Gould is from Cape Town, South Africa, born to Canadian immigrant parents, and is currently under quarantine in Vancouver, Canada. Nathanael is sympathetic to Robert Stark’s  Alt-Centrism, and describes his politics as socially left on gay rights (for personal reasons),  right leaning on issues of HBD and race relations, and centrist on economics. Follow Nate on Twitter.

Topics:

Nate’s interest in HBD and the Twitter Account Birth Gauge that tracks global fertility
The dissident right’s narrative on South Africa (their accurate and inaccurate perceptions)
How South Africa’s politics is polarized along ethnic-sectarian lines
How woke culture is spreading to South Africa, especially in universities, in part due to American influence
Rightwing multiculturalism, and the need to grant groups some degree of autonomy
The critique of Anglos from the right as being uniquely individualistic, liberal, and putting morality over group interests
The decline of the Anglosphere in contrast with the rise of Nationalism in France
LGBTQ identity politics, and why cis gay White males are being excluded from the intersectional hierarchy
A need for a rightest gay identity that emphasizes the contributions of gays as an artistic and intellectual caste
Contrasting global homogenization with true diversity and the politics of aesthetic tribes and hierarchies

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Robert Stark interviews Apex about Systems & Agency

aesthetics, Afghanistan, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Apex, Architecture, Banking, capitalism, Cities, Classical Liberalism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Distributism, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, History, Immigration, Imperialism, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Managerialism, Marxism, materialism, Morality, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, social capital, Social Isolation, social trust, Socialism, Third Way Economics, Urbanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Apex talk about Systems, Pan-Enclavism, and the Alt-Center. Apex is a former leftist from a landless North Eastern Native American Tribe, and loosely part of the Post-Left/Post-Right sphere. He describes himself as the “Cartographer of the Simulation and the Architect of Post-America.” Subscribe to Apex’s Substack and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

Why the Left are Hyper-capitalists
How we can embrace certain leftwing social policies while rejecting the philosophical framework
Systems and Agency
Why All Politics are Identity Politics
Robert’s Proposal for a New Alt-Center which offers a counter-argument to the slippery slope fallacy and O’Sullivan’s First Law with core philosophical principles
Why There is no such thing as a “Private Company” and why The Right is No Home of Mine
Distributism, Adam Smith’s critique of absentee ownership, and why market power matters more than supply and demand
The huge and confusing gap in theorizing power structures
The viability of alternative institutions such as in finance and education
Pan-Enclavism: the case for communal self-determination as a bulwark against mass homogenization
Post Americanism: embracing America as an internal empire
Politics as a cope: The LARPing will continue until morale improves

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Robert Stark interviews Dutch Vlogger Faust

aesthetics, American Culture, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automation, Baby Boomers, Banking, Basic Income, Black Lives Matter, Calvinism, capitalism, censorship, Cities, Class, Classical Liberalism, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, democracy, demographics, Distributism, Donald Trump, Economics, England, Eugenics, Europe, European Nationalism, Faust, Free Trade, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Globalization, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Islam, Islamization, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Netherlands, New Urbanism, Oligarchy, Police, Police State, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Psychology, Retro Futurism, Skyscrapers, social capital, Socialism, South Africa, Steampunk, Suburbia, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, Urbanism, Wealth, welfare state, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Dutch Youtuber Faust about Dutch politics, economics, and geo-politics. Faust has an English language political channel, a Dutch language channel Dietse Bazuin. Faust is the publisher of an arts and history magazine that is also called Dietse Bazuin.

Topics:

Advocacy of a Germanic Union as a geopolitical alternative to the EU
The historic rivalry between the British and Dutch
The debate about the origins of capitalism (the Germanic Rhine model of capitalism vs. Anglo/American shareholder capitalism)
Thoughts on Dutch populist figures Geert Wilders  and Thierry Baudet
Faust’s critique of the welfare state and advocacy of building up social networks and economic niches as the solution to economic problems
The impact of American Imperialism on Europe and why Faust wants to disassociate from the American movement
Thoughts on the civil unrest in America, the politics of crisis, and America’s slide into neo-feudalism
“Ok Boomer” – a right wing meme turned left
Faust’s Dutch video on South Africa: Solidariteit met Afrikaners
Archeofuturist Architecture
The impact of architecture and urbanism on psychology and social capital

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Robert Stark interviews Martin Lichtmesz about Ethnopluralism

Africa, Alain de Benoist, American Culture, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, colonialism, Communism, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Emmanuel Macron, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, Fascism, France, Germany, Globalization, Guillaume Faye, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, Islam, Islamization, Israel, Liberalism, Martin Lichtmesz, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoconservatism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, South Africa, terrorism, The Cold War, the New Right, Vienna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Martin Lichtmesz about his new German language book Ethnopluralismus: Kritik und Verteidigung about the political concept of ethnopluralism. Martin Lichtmesz is an Austrian journalist and translator based in Vienna, and you can read his articles at Sezession and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The need to put forth a clear definition of ethnopluralism
Influence of the concept on the European New Right
How the concept was coined in the 70s by Germany sociologist Henning Eichberg but goes back further to romantic philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder
Eichberg’s sympathies with anti-colonial struggles from a German perspective
A rejection of monolithic universalist values and embracing of uniqueness
Defining the nation state, concept of Self-determination, and difficulties of drawing exact borders to respect national populations
The original version of Multiculturalism in Canada and degree to which it overlaps with ethnopluralism
The failure of the Left to preserve diversity and feasibility of maintaining a version of multiculturalism where all can take part
Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Sad Tropics and Jean Raspail’s La Hache Des Steppes about lost tribes
Orania, the Afrikaner enclave in South Africa
The recent terrorist attack in Vienna 

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Robert Stark interviews Caleb Maupin about Kamala Harris

Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Caleb Maupin, capitalism, censorship, Culture, Donald Trump, Economics, Globalization, Hillary Clinton, History, Huey Long, Imperialism, income inequality, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Liberalism, Marxism, Morality, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Personality Types, Philosophy, Police, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, Tulsi Gabbard, War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst, Caleb Maupin about his new book Kamala Harris & The Future of America: An Essay in Three Parts. Check out Caleb’s website, other books, Youtube, and Twitter.

Topics:

Caleb’s involvement with Occupy Wall Street, the anti-war movement, and socialist politics
Kamala Harris’ record as a prosecutor during the tough on crime era and debate with Tulsi Gabbard
Kamala Harris’ family upbringing and evolution of her personality and moral framework
Kamala Harris as the culmination of a number of trends, including polarization and the distortion of leftwing politics
The significant role that identity politics plays for Kamala Harris
They Named Her Kamala: Clinton Staff, Donors Anoint 2020 Candidate
How Kamala Harris could play a similar role that Hillary Clinton played in the Obama administration, pushing a muscular liberal interventionism
Concerns about civil liberty abuses and tech totalitarianism under a Biden/Harris administration
Bezos v. Trump: 3 Major Divisions in the US Ruling Class
The degree to which Trump is an impediment to the “Open International System”
The ideological conformity, and destructive and anti-populist philosophy of the New Left

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Robert Stark talks to Guillaume Durocher about the Black Lives Matter Protests in Europe

2020 Riots, Africa, American Culture, Belgium, Black Lives Matter, California, Catholicism, censorship, Christianity, colonialism, coronavirus, Crime, Culture, democracy, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Emmanuel Macron, England, Éric Zemmour, Europe, European Nationalism, France, Front National, Globalization, Guillaume Durocher, History, Immigration, Imperialism, Italy, Marine Le Pen, Morality, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Police, Police Brutality, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Race Relations, Slavery, Socialism, welfare state, Yellow Vests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to French Unz Review columnist about the Black Lives Matter Protests in Europe and related political and social trends. Follow Guillaume on Twitter.

Topics:

Pro-BLM Demonstrations Sweep Across Europe
Arson investigation at Nantes Cathedral and whether it’s part of a greater wave of Church vandalism
Europe’s advantages in handling civil unrest including a strong social safety net
French President Emmanuel Macron: France will not erase its History
Why Europe is less hysterical in regards to woke culture than the US
Protests as a product of American Cultural Imperialism
Vlaams Belang help restore anti-slavery Monument to the Belgian Pioneers in the Congo
Parallels between the Belgian Congo and modern day pseudo humanitarian justifications for intervention to enrich capitalist interest
Rise in tribal conflicts in Europe(Clashes erupt between Chechen and Arab gangs in France)
French Municipal Elections: Macron Régime Shudders as It Fails to Win in a Single City
Marine Le Pen’s nation focused politics that are neither socially nor economically conservative
Proposals for citizen referendums from the Yellow Vests and French conservative pundit Éric Zemmour
Corona-Depression: Southern Europe Will Never Recover
Political trends in Europe, the fragility of the EU, and why Italy is the country to watch

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Robert Stark & Brandon Adamsom talk about Predictions for the 2020’s

aesthetics, Alt Center, American Culture, Andrew Yang, Architecture, arcology, automation, Basic Income, Brandon Adamson, Culture, DECAY, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Futurism, Globalization, Hipsters, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Iran, Mass Transit, Media, Middle Class, Middle East, Millennials, Oligarchy, Overpopulation, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, technology, The Black Pill, Urbanism, Utopia, War, Wealth, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Brandon Adamson discuss their predictions for the next decade. Check out Brandon’s predictions on Twitter.

Topics:

The conflict with Iran, low probability of outright war, but continuation of foreign policy status quo under Trump
Prediction that Trump won’t be re-elected due to demographic change and lack of energy among intelligent online activists
Prediction that woke culture will become even more insane
Prediction that people won’t wake up in numbers to enact any significant change and in fact will get used to a lower standard of living
Woke urbanist vs. NIMBYs, and regular millennials getting screwed from both sides
The gig economy
The home delivery trend and it’s impact on urbanism
Micro apartments
Retrofitting Dead and Dying Suburban Malls
Self-contained cities
Decay’s urbanist predictions on Twitter
The stagnation of pop culture and how hipster culture has been superficially absorbed into pop culture
America existing in name only, with loyalty to tribes rather than abstract idea of America
The importance of being part of a small elite group rather than winning over the masses
American refugees will become a thing

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