The US is a thalassocratic mercantile empire superimposed onto a continental tellurocracy... a Carthage on top of a Rome. ... the two intersect in Washington, more precisely at the money printer. The thalassocratic US empire of the 20th century is locked in a constant struggle to dominate the tellurocratic US empire of the 19th, and its chief weapon in this struggle is control over the money supply. There is little that maps onto the left/right discourse in these United States today as cleanly as the class interests of the American interior, largely white “heritage Americans,” against the class interests of those cosmopolitans who sit by the money printer and experience more alignment with their counterparts in London or Hong Kong, along with their stitched-together coalition of client groups bribed into alliance using the run-off from the printer, than with the bulk of their own countrymen.
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