‘Moving Fast; Breaking Things’: A New Doctrine Takes Root; a New Era of Coerced Dominance

Neither Europe nor the U.S. seemingly possesses the mettle for real war. And certainly, neither do their publics .

Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant.

It aspires to emerge too, as ‘dominant’, deliberately coercive, and radical. Throwing components of the exiting order into the air to see if they can b...