Magnus Carlsen is Acquitted of Autism

Some covet the GM title and fall into a realous jage nearing GM norms. Though people have acquitted world number one chess GM Magnus Carlsen of being autistic, chess GMs may have implicit autism and need corrective glasses. Some might speculate they are merely idiot savants while others could throw in a manic depressive or bipolar diagnosis as the games bring tremendous endorphin flows winning and sometimes the agony of defeat when a single opfor pawn converts to a Queen promoted suddenly, without warning as the player is consumed- some would say obsessed, with an attack of his or her own they believed was about to conquer the chess world in the glory of victory.

None dare call it megalomania though the rook fetish of forward and sideways movement is a dark tower of fantasy subliminally occupying the subconscious mind of a GM living in effect, in a twilight zone beyond space and time. I believe California has made conversion therapy of chess GMs to meaningful non-addictive activity illegal.

The majarity of first world people technically fall at some point of their lives into a psychological category of some sort worth headlines if they rise high enough. Table salt may be the cure (though it elevates blood pressure and may be indirectly linked to acrophobia, agoraphobia, aquaphobia, arachnophobia and more).

Long, long ago in Germany

I visited Germany long ago and found some Germans that didn’t speak English- that made it tough. I traveled about and had to survive on pastry communicating with the natives saying things like bitte Bitte und danke and Wie geht's, before pointing at things with creamed cheese.

I never got a chance to work in Husserl’s phrase-title logische untersuchungen in a bakery though I was looking for the opportunity.

British Trash Talk And Disrespect Pres Trump- No Apology Expected

Foreign enemies of the U.S.A. try to get whatever leverage they can. It will always be that way. Some people hate the first place team in their division and inter-league rivals. Britain chose to moon President Trump so far as they could during an official visit recently.

The U.S. government could stop issuing visas to Brits if the Congress wasn’t so full of appeasers. My father fought four years in the second world war- it’s obligatory to say that. The wolf-packs likely sought to sink his ship too the years off North Africa. Oh well.

The Second world war would not have happened if the USA hadn’t entered the First and decided the conflict to the advantage of Britain without fighting to the point of the unconditional surrender of Germany. I don’t believe the German government of Hindenburg was that bad. Their basic problem was their hatred of Russia and Orthodox Christians of Serbia.

Hindenburg bragged that he had never read a book. German foreign policy showed that.

I hope Pres Trump adds British fish and chips to the tariff list as well as Canadian maple syrup until they apologize. I suppose the leftist Nobel Institute won't give President Trump the Peace Prize this year or next even if Kim Jong Un buys a box seat at Yankee Stadium and lets Apple build assembly plants in Pyongyang after Korean reunification.

Paradigm of the Crowd-Sourced Superpower

Becoming a super-power of a nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and endowed with their Creator with certain inalienable rights for the pursuit of happiness- as it is written- would be better for mankind if it was innovative and inventive in restoring capitalism to practical egalitarianism within an environmental economic criterion.

Conventional super-power status for a nation is a measure of military power and economic productivity. Unfortunately each of those categories as traditionally structured have a deleterious effect upon the sustainability of the planetary ecosphere. A new super-power with a completely new economic mode of being and production integrated implicitly within a reformed capitalism that rewards ecospherically beneficial enterprise would be a crowd-sourced and supported super-power populism such as should be at the heart of democracy.

Surprisingly the next super-power could be any of the majority of the world’s nations. The clever trick to overcome the challenge of envisioning and actualizing a practical way of restructuring capitalism toward egalitarianism and ecospheric synergy is what is as difficult, or really more so, than climbing Mt Everest without oxygen or ropes.

About Withdrawing All U.S. Forces from Europe

The U.S.A. would love to have no troops stationed in Europe. Unfortunately Europeans don’t trust themselves enough to realistically let that happen. If one looks at European history it is easy to understand why.

Europe has started every world war. Without American intervention in Serbia its hard to say where that would have gone. Some would like to let Europe and its issues burn themselves out instead of intervening in the future.

Basing U.S. forces in Europe is costly. If the United States were to get them all out of Europe Germany might feel free to re-arm itself as best it can and just kick any malcontents into the gutter. ..some would think of opening concentration camps with free train rides for the recently homeless. The United States could watch. It would be like reality T.V. or almost as good.

Europeans are such nice people though that they would never think of increasing their nuclear weapons infrastructure. They could sign some kind of mutual love agreement like Hitler did with Stalin and that would further allow butterflies to fly free in the skies while flowers are planted along autobahns.

Russia might be a cheaper place for Americans to base troops in anyway besides being closer to potential Asian conflicts. Maybe some sort of security arrangement could be made with Russia if Americans are booted out of Europe. Then, if there was a need someday to return to Europe U.S. troops wouldn’t have to cross the Atlantic again.

Russia is an entirely manufactured threat to the United States. Europe has invaded Russia numerous while Russia just conquered the Nazis from the eastern approach. The Austria-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia 28 July 1914. The Balkan League including Serbia and Greece wanted to rid the region of Ottoman Empire occupiers of Europe. Germany would have none of that, and Russians supported Christian Orthodox Serbs; sound familiar?

August 1 1914 Germany declared war on Russia.

Suvorov did general around Switzerland back in the time of the Napoleonic Wars of course, yet Napoleon found it convenient to busy himself in Egypt in those days. With a strong German position in the EU today it is natural that the EU finds Russia a problem. Large numbers of recent Muslim immigrants to the EU add to the traditional anti-Russian position of the EU for Russian support of Christian orthodoxy instead of state-run religion such as prevails in Germany.

Russia sold Alaska to the United States to dampen British expansion ambitions a little. The only conflict with Russia the United States has had was the cold war and that ideological contest is over. Europe seems to be the source of ideological conflict with the U.S.A. these days more so than Russia.

Russia with such a small population hasn’t visions of global conquest. They want to keep historical Russia together such as it was before German annexation of Ukraine at Brest-Litovsk. They seek security from Western attack as well as Eastern and Southern attack in addition to hoping not to have nuclear war with the United States, China, or to be struck by a Muslim bomb.

Germany only pays 20% of the cost of U.S. bases. The U.S.A. pays billions and billions for maintaining bases, training troops and building equipment to defrappe war in Europe. The Rand Corporation reported that Germany pays 1 billion dollars annually for bases. The European Deterrence Initiative alone for the U.S.A. is 4.7 billion dollars in 2018. The U.S. defense budget request for 2018 is nearly 700 billion dollars. A huge part of that goes toward Europe related defense spending.

About rearming; Today Germany pays nearly 2% of its economy on defense spending. Nazi Germany in 1938 spent 17% and in 1939 23%. The numbers continued to rise during the war of course.

I am very happy not to have war. My father served in the U.S. Navy four years during the second world war off North Africa. Germany was a bit of a problem back then and caused a few U.S. casualties. I visited Berlin in 1987 and saw the ‘armies waiting to tear one another apart’…the Soviet equipment seemed rusty. My hope as an army reservist was for peace and prosperity yet one trained for war.

The Phenomenon of Super-Powerhood Conferred on the the U.S.A.

Why the U.S.A. is a super-power is a good question. It may be interpreted in several ways. Hollywood likes superlatives as does Madison Avenue. Super-sizing French fries was big for some time. It is a prestigious thing for some to be super. One has an ego, then one has a super-ego.

Economic and military power combined put the United States in a class of its own. Yet it is how one regards economic and military power that gives an amorphous character to the security or stability of super-power-hood. Weapons of mass destruction have numerous forms and methods of delivery. The world has become a small place in regard to modern transportation and the volatility of allocation of WMD vectors globally. Borders and distance no longer confer the natural security that they once did. Neither are economies of nations secure from disruptions form anomalous vectors.

The United States had an insular status free from European military invasions for some time. Natural oceanic borders were helpful. after the end of the Second World War the nations that were nuclear weapons super-powers were all on the allied side of victors over the Axis powers. After the end of the Soviet Union the economy of Russia was not able to attain the kind of growth needed to rival Japan or China as a challenger to world leadership. The Chinese economy is about equal to that of the United States in size, yet they have just 300 plus nuclear weapons versus 6300 of Russia and 6000 of the U.S.A. so they are not considered a super-power in combined economic and nuclear accounting. Neither have they the great military budget expense of the United States for conventional weapons. It should be recalled that larges numbers of nuclear weapons help assure being a target rather than to increase security in some ways.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-economy-the-us-vs-china-in-five-charts/

One might like a super-power to be necessarily beneficial to all nations and in some respects the United States tries to achieve that at least indirectly through the vehicle of capitalism and free markets that improve the lifestyles of all people. Modern capitalism unfortunately has numerous unreformed weaknesses in performance and unintended down-sides in development that tend to be uncorrected with philosophical and analytical laziness or even rationalization primarily accountable for that.

One of the implicit weaknesses of a super-power is its inability to change and upgrade its economic and social infrastructure because of the inertia of the establishment and its resistance to change and adapt successfully to new challenges. The historian Arnold Toynbee noted that challenge and response of civilizations as a critical element for their rise and fall with the decline being a failure to adapt as well as over-expansion of commercial or military success into a Universal phase (like a star nova before collapse).

History does not always repeat the past. So the United States may find a way to evolve an ecologically economic reform of capitalism limiting over-concentration of wealth and transform the social and environmental structure of the planet through positive leadership emulated. Super-power status is however like a time of the day where the sun shines brightly through broken clouds. The historical day moves on though.

If the U.S. Reforms N.A.T.O. by Leaving It

Germany is the N.A.T.O. super-power in the absence of the U.S.A. German power could beat the rest of N.A.T.O. combined. If the U.S. wasn’t in N.A.T.O. maybe Germany would transform it into the 4th Reich. Alternatively they could sign up Russia to become the new Soviet Europe or The Europus Corporate Entity led by continental 1%’ers.

If the United States wanted to reform N.A.T.O. and leave it the parameter ought to be that forming large multi-national defense organizations alternatively known as practical, aggressive war structures for explicit expansion are illegal and would be met by ad hoc war coalitions of willing attackers in anticipatory defense.

Whale Steaks and Blubber Aren't For Sale in the U.S.A.

Only very few, and primitive people, want to eat whales and whale blubber. Knowing that they are eating a semi-sentient species with the largest brains on Earth ruins the taste for modern people. They would rather eat mint-flavored high-protein soy bean applets and cotlets energy snacks with B complex fortification.

Cannibalism persisted in the world until recent times in primitive locales. Whale eaters are like that. So whale steaks and blubber can’t be bought in the U.S.A. except possibly on the black market in Western Alaska, if it exists.

If the Soviet Red Army had Conquered West Berlin in 1989

The former Soviet Union started withdrawing its forces from East Germany in December 1988. I believe it was a quarter of a million soldiers that were pulled back. So if they had reversed course in 1989 and invaded West Berlin that would have caused fuel shortages in the Soviet Union for civil consumers of gasoline as all of the Soviet Army trucks would have required fuel.

Pink Floyd’s concert at the former Berlin Wall probably wouldn’t have happened. Instead, Metallica would have been commissioned to perform at the battle-line from the trench-works dug around Berlin to contain Soviet expansionism. A-10 Warthogs would have swirled menacingly around Berlin while vast right-wing fireworks displays followed by oil-based fog from machines would have confused Soviet Red Army forces.

If there were vast concentrations of explosives buried beneath Berlin in case of invasion they would have been detonated creating in effect, a vast sinkhole that eventually would have filled with rainwater and become a fishing spot of note.

Very likely static electric discharges across the sky would have followed a Soviet Red Army invasion of West Berlin. Tremendous Van De Graff field generators with stealth technology and fueled with synthetic cornohal would have been moved under cover of darkness near Berlin and cast crackling power lines over the city before it became a sinkhole. Then, with some softening up, the Meissner field would have taken effect and lifted the city to move it thirty miles west.

The psyops team having completely confused the opposition force would have allowed the decoy, holographic Berlin to remain when the real city moved west. It would have been the fake city of West Berlin that actually followed the sinkhole into the oblivion captured in the term; not a bite all day.

The Economic Challenge to the U.S.A.

Reforming capitalism; an upgrade in theory from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations paradigm published in 1776, is long over-due. It should attack the over-concentration of wealth and power once more as Adam Smith’s paradigm did regarding the monopoly on free trade de facto by the aristocracy. Too much concentrated wealth and power gives de facto monopoly of trade and the channels of capital flow to the 1% aristocrats of the present era.

While reforming capital theory and its application in the world it would be a good idea to integrate the new paradigm with an implicit ecological economic structure that advances economic enterprises that are synergetic with recovery of the planet’s ecospheric health.