"Investigative journalist and co-founder of the Nerve Carole Cadwalladr talks to conservative historian and former historian Robert Kagan about the critical geopolitical moment we are in. With the Trump administration moving rapidly towards dictatorship, Kagan says, European governments need to completely change tack, fast. “I feel like the administration has done everything except climb up on the roof of the White House and yell what they're going to do,” says Kagan. ”Trump is already talking about how you don't really need these midterm elections.” "Europe needs to become self-sufficient in both military and economic terms" and without drastic action, “risks becoming a collection of fiefdoms of the great empires of the world... Some of them under Russia's thumb, some under America's thumb, maybe some influenced more by China.” "—The Nerve

Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goGamFRtO0

#interview #Robert_Kagan #fascist_USA #USA #dictatorship #military #ICE #Trump_regime #EU #fiefdoms #UK #ICA #midterm_elections #far_right #video #techno_feudalism #Palentir #gaslighting #insane_UK #Europe #Russian_Federation #USA_imperialism #China #EU #liberalism

"#Socialmedia seems to have splintered — much like other aspects of the internet have — into separate #fiefdoms, one (or possibly two) for conservatives and right-wing trolls, and another (or possibly two) for the left. Not to mention private Discord groups and other “dark social.”

…the potential for #federation of posts and other content [the Fediverse] is one of the few rays of hope in the current fractured landscape.
@mathewi
https://mathewingram.com/work/2025/06/18/reports-of-blueskys-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/

“#NathanSchneider has the patience and fortitude most of us lack. He’s identified a phenomenon he calls “#ImplicitFeudalism’ - the bias to build our online and real #communities as #fiefdoms, and how this has made us more tolerant of similarly autocratic CEOs and politicians. He’s even optimistic and energetic enough to see how the blockchain could be employed to distribute #governance in a more democratic fashion.”

- @Rushkoff on @ntnsndr

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rushkoff_nathan-schneider-team-human-activity-7175559675608760320-AcoW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

@JoeGrowling

And #Fiefdoms run by...

🧙⚔️ 🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | ☕🎠🦹🦄🦹🎠☕

The fight over information #supremacy shapes the world.

#Science as a global public institution for #humanity is a threat to populist #influencers and #narratives, #powerful individuals, #businesses, and #state actors, all forces who dominate in the current #digital world of #fragmented realities and have an interest to entrench their separate little #epistemic #fiefdoms.

https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/asymmetric-power-in-the-information-6fb