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Jan 28·edited Jan 31Liked by Nemanja Plotan

You rely on Statista? Headquartered in Germany. Who do they suspect of blowing up Nordstream? For that matter who do you?

You make sweeping generalizations. Accusing the world of abandoning rules. Who leads the world in this criminal behavior?

When you write a story with lots of stats should you not establish your basis for that data and some credibility to just state them as facts?

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Thank you for commenting! It always good to receive feedback, as we are all limited in our knowledge, so this is also an opportunity for me to learn from your insights.

I don't rely on Statista, but they create beautiful graphs, so that's the primary reason why I use them. In the future, I will create my own graphs, but this spares me some time. A lot of the data is from World Bank and other institutions.

I really don't know who has blown up the Nordstream, I can only make assumptions based on the fact who profits the most, but I don't see how that is linked to this topic.

I'm not accusing the world of abandoning rules, although that is a special topic of interest for me, as I see a lot of confusion in the world of international relations, with institutions such as the UN, becoming less credible day by day. What I was stating is that the world is changing and we had a unipolar world after the Cold War, led by the US and its allies and now that is no longer the case, and as a result of this, we are slipping into chaos, before a new multipolar world order can take place. This is not a generalization or accusation, this is already a well accepted fact in the IR academic community.

I agree with you, but this is not an academic article, it is first and foremost my own analysis, which I always try to support with facts. I may very well be wrong, after all we are all humans and we can't be right on every topic, so If you think that I have made some mistakes, I welcome you in introducing your own insights. Take care and subscribe if you haven't already.

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For me the most important thing is truth. To site institutions that have been a party to massive fraud is being part of the problem.

I would strongly assert that the US, along with all great empires, has fallen into decadence and will utter collapse. The world is already reorganizing itself and leaving them out.

Name me a credible institution in the West please.

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I agree with everything that you have said, but with all due respect, I have to assert that the World Bank and the IMF have great research economists. Even though the US exerts big influence on the World Bank and the IMF, a lot of the research undertaken by those institutions is done by groups of economists who have full autonomy in everything that they do. Now, if you disagree with some of the assumptions of Neo-Liberalism, that is a different topic and I can agree with you that all those institutions are heavily influenced in their decision-making process by the framework of Neo-Liberalism.

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"full autonomy in everything that they do."

I'm sorry, but that is almost laughable to me. Conflict of interest has gone from a show stopping problem, to a prerequisite for participation in the Unipolar unraveling of civilization.

What is the framework of Neo-Liberalism? If it ain't broke, break it. If it is broke, break it even more.

How many seasoned, top rated professionals have been cancelled for expressing any fact that even comes close to questioning the main stream narrative. Or do you only see media that censures even that news?

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Well my advice would be to learn both sides of all these discussions and present them without opinion. Then carefully monitor the comments section for respect and toss out those who break strict rules.

This fellow had the most wonderful comments section. Ruled with a firm hand. No Covid discussion but everything else was fair game. A veritable genius forum.

So first the Saker's link. https://thesaker.is/ read his bio, he speaks like 4 languages. The archives are still there, a treasure trove.

Second one of the alumni from the Saker's comment section has gone on to have a very successful sub stack. Perhaps you saw me there, will send the link to one of my favorite most pertinent articles.

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/border-crisis-heats-up-as-biden-admin

I am sorry if I have not shown due respect. Not my strong suite. Perhaps you could send along a link that most shows what has brought you to where you are. Then it might be easier for me to grasp your perspective.

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