Foreign CEOs are facing heightened scrutiny in an era of nationalism and deglobalization. But Air Canada's CEO earned it with his lack of fluency in navigating a crisis and a culture, writes @bethkowitt (via @opinion) https://t.co/3ypLzkZX2v ...

Btw: it’s true that there are both imperialist nationalists and autarkic nationalists.The imperialists want to conquer other countries, while the autarkics want nothing to do with them. Both actually have a logic and an illogic.The logic of empire is: like any business, if you're not growing you're dying. But there's also an illogic, the illogic of imperial overstretch.Similarly, the logic of autarky is: it's good to be able to build it yourself. The illogic is when that's taken so far that there's a reject ...

You know how socialists don't get capitalism?Well, nationalists don't get diplomacy.The socialist thinks their state is all-powerful domestically, and the nationalist thinks their state is all-powerful globally, so it can seize whatever it wants by force, because it's so strong, and nothing will ever happen, and no one can resist.Both worldviews are wrong, for similar reasons.The socialist hates capitalists so much, and the nationalist hates foreigners so much, that they often just become blinded by hatred. ...

RT Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10)If I moved to Japan, and lived in Japan for decades, speaking the language, integrating into society, contributing to the economy. Would I be ethnically Japanese? No. No I would not. I would never pretend to be. Nor would that apply to India, Thailand, Mexico, Denmark or anywhere else.So why is England different? Of course there is an English ethnicity. I am entirely bemused by how so many argue against that. It’s just a fact. Politicians who say otherwise are cowards. This ...

Killing of nationalist student leaves French far left in deep trouble as elections loom https://t.co/SG6rq6ICab ...

China is the exception to every rule.They can afford nationalism, because they are at billion-person civilization scale rather than million-person nation scale. They can actually afford autarky, because they already produce billions of widgets not just for themselves but the world. And they can even afford communism, because in reality they practice capitalism.Finally, China can ride the tiger in the AI Era by just centralizing everything and creating the largest walled garden in existence. The infrastructu ...

RT Brotherhood (@DiggingInTheDi1)Everyone is a blood and soil nationalist for their own people, all except WhitesWhen push comes to shove people revert to favoring their own raceThere is no "melting pot", just shared living in ethnic enclaves ...

RT Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner)The young French Patriot was 23 years old. His name was Quentin. He was part of the Catholic nationalist movement of France and, according to information, also went to the summer camps of the Academia Christiana.The French state tried to ban @AcademiaChristi for no reason.Shortly before they banned generation identity, both patriotic movements who did not commit any act of violence.The Antifa terror organization that killed Quentin, however, is still allowed to operate in ...

An election night surprise in Thailand. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s party is outperforming expectations, riding incumbency and a nationalist surge after border tensions with Cambodia.@haslindatv explains: https://t.co/uCs1xuOcVk https://t.co/dvNtA46DHD ...

A recent spat between Hungary and Slovakia shows how hard it can be for Europe’s nationalists, even friendly ones, to avoid stepping on each other’s toes https://t.co/0tBG9W2hro ...