[KMF2026] World on Fire? – Prof Stephen Kotkin
‘The cloud is an idiotic metaphor’. The cloud isn’t in the ether, it is cables, satellites, and data centers. All of these are vulnerable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMjDmYqykNI
Tag: history
Why U.S. Shipbuilding Is Failing the American Merchant Marine
Trump wants to replace the new EMALS aircraft launch system on carriers with old steam systems even though steam systems are worse and would require rebuilding ships.
In the 1980s, the Reagan administration so focused on building more naval ships, that they let commercial shipbuilding move overseas, ending subsidies. Naval ship demand will go up and down and is not consistent; the base of a country’s ship building industry will need to be commercial. By allowing, and helping by ending the subsidies, US commercial shipbuilding to move overseas, the Reagen administration ultimately greatly weakened US shipbuilding capacity despite building a lot of naval ships. China has a strong industrial base for shipbuilding because they build commercial ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY58Y_OZmu8
The Muslim Brotherhood Explained: Why It Matters Today
The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to create a worldwide Muslim state. One strategy is to have Muslims immigrate to the West and influence Western countries from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHVf1uYge3s
141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore
In 1938/9, the British rejected two states in Palestine, instead proposing a single state, putting strict limits on Jewish immigration, and restrictions on land sales from Arabs to Jews. The Palestinian Arab leadership rejected it because they wanted immediate independence and the complete and immediate cessation of all Jewish Immigration. So, the Arabs living in Palestine, were offered a single Arab majority state with strict limits of Jewish immigration, and still rejected it. It’s possible they rejected it because, influenced by both Nazi ideology and Islamism, they wanted the Jews eliminated from the land, so the British offer wasn’t good enough.
From the end of WWII to today, elites in some Middle Eastern states reluctantly support dictatorships because the other options that would likely take over if not for the dictatorships are Islamists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiIvGICLla8
The God of the Old Testament was totally cool with slavery.
The God of the Old Testament was totally cool with slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8zsBqw6z1c
Islamist revolutionary vanguard ideology is weirdly influenced by socialist revolutionary vanguard ideology.
Islamist revolutionary vanguard ideology is weirdly influenced by socialist revolutionary vanguard ideology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GakhbzQOg60
Why Are There Four Gospels?
Two reasons the four gospels were chosen were 1) they were older so they had more time to spread and become more well-known. 2) when the canon was being put together, these four could be better used to argue what the Orthodox believed compared to adding others or removing some of these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6f3U1IMl1g
How the Middle East Got So Screwed Up, with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Islamism pretends to be the ideology of ancient Islam, when really it is a modern political ideology that includes bits of Nazism and fascism.
The blockade on Iran is really hurting them. Success is possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOeGg17ol2E
The Trinity is bullshit!
The Trinity is bullshit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0-IIXYIjzE
The Atrocities That Shaped the Modern Middle East | The David Frum Show
In 1900, 25% of the Middle East was Christian. Then, partially due to genocides, ethnic cleansings, and other violence…now the Christian population is 4%.
After the Ottoman Empire fell, the Western powers split up the land into different countries, then, partially in attempts to consolidate these nationalistic states, the peoples of these new states committed atrocities against minorities.
In the Middle East, the peoples who didn’t have their own state, were often slaughtered, including the Jews, yet people think the Jews will be okay living in an Arab majority Palestine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD0jIXXjABM