H.T. Scott Gibbons

Political economy, urban planning, international development. 30 years across Pakistan, India, Kenya, Afghanistan, Iraq. Author. UN Best Practice.

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Check out my latest article: Beyond the Belt and Road: Strategic Geography and the Future of Global Trade https://t.co/SHq89Wyymg via @LinkedIn

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@charlesmurray Loss of grit, and universality

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@TheresaAFallon Dead man walking

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@TheresaAFallon Sam Huntington must be turning in his grave.

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@andrewmichta @NATO But ultimately what are the clear and quantifiable benefits for the US?

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@andrewmichta The old has become new again. The answer is that there is only one hopeful course of action - draconian restructure of economies

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@TheresaAFallon Surprise, surprise, surprise!

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@TheresaAFallon Hahaha, capacity building and technology transfer. After buying the world a Coke give them the recipe

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@TheMichaelEvery For many decades there were some relative global certainties. Now those are dissipating with individual national retrenchment. That will be painful.

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@TheresaAFallon Germinal?

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@TheMichaelEvery We're not all these problems solvable decades ago? Who was asleep at the wheel? The real disease set in even before WWII and was fully advanced by the mid-1960s. Hidden in plain sight. See my book, Trapped by History. https://t.co/LyYQUiUD50

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@robert_spalding In my use of both Claude and ChatGPT I can experience political correctness for sure

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@TheMichaelEvery Dream on

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Worth reading.

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@andrewmichta I remember when I saw Jeep Cherokees made in China in Xinjiang in 1986. I thought at the time that somehow that wasn't going to turn out as Americans thought.

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@TheMichaelEvery couldn't resist sending this link. one of my favorites! Randy Newman - Political Science (Let's Drop the Big One Now)

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@TheMichaelEvery Indeed, great insight. Time for either total war or restructuring of boundaries and trade patterns.

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Check out my latest article: What is Old is New Again: Restoring the Importance of Old Border Towns and Trade Routes: Kisumu, Lake Victoria, Kenya https://t.co/cml3j1FUZY via @LinkedIn As I have been predicting for some years now, the decline of international systems and power consensus means that all post-WWII structures, boundaries and trade routes are vulnerable to new and sometimes to old geopolitical pressures. My new YouTube channel will explore how this is developing on the ground. The first stop is Kisumu, Kenya, on Lake Victoria, where I worked for 2 years and wrote my first book, Trapped by History.

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@TheMichaelEvery I think the main issue is the lack of acceptance of the need for total war. The population is too much. There are too many mountains. The people don't support the regime. We will bring prosperity to the region. Everywhere avoiding the main issue.