Lester Golden
1 min readNov 30, 2022

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As in Kosovo in 1999, just because NATO doesn't intervene everywhere does not justify intervening nowhere.

I live in Europe. I care more about my own neighborhood than intractable misgovernment in the Middle East, Burma and Xinjiang. Russia's reintroduction of genocidal war into Europe matters more to Europeans than Chinese mistreatment of Uighurs or the Saudis in Yemen. Proximity dictating level of care isn't hypocrisy. It's practical geopolitics.

The Dutch invented the bond market and the modern world, the English copied them and the Americans copied the copy. Everybody else adapts. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore adapted and got rich. So they're now part of the institutional West. The superiority of the limited state power and contractual model of government the Dutch invented is clearly visible in every measure of wealth and human development in the countries that copied it. The co-author of Why Nations Fail shows why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZDlBU36n0 if you have 18 minutes.

I've yet to see any evidence from you refuting my article's evidence. You don't send it because you have none, or you're simply unhappy with being told you can't order what's not on the menu in the geopolitics restaurant.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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