{"id":66500,"date":"2024-01-20T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66500"},"modified":"2024-01-20T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T12:25:57","slug":"pepe-escobar-how-the-west-was-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66500","title":{"rendered":"Pepe Escobar: How the West Was Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emmanuel Todd, historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist and political analyst, is part of a dying breed: one of the very few remaining exponents of old school French intelligentzia \u2013 a heir to those like Braudel, Sartre, Deleuze and Foucault who dazzled successive young Cold War generations from the West down to the East.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The first nugget concerning his latest book,\u00a0La D\u00e9faite de L\u2019Occident\u00a0<\/em>(\u201cThe Defeat of the West\u201d) is the minor miracle of actually being published last week in France, right within the NATO sphere: a hand grenade of a book, by an independent thinker, based on facts and verified data, blowing up the whole Russophobia edifice erected around the \u201caggression\u201d by \u201cTsar\u201d Putin.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At least some sectors of strictly oligarch-controlled corporate media in France simply could not ignore Todd this time around for several reasons. Most of all because he was the first Western intellectual, already in 1976, to have predicted the fall of the USSR in his book\u00a0La Chute Finale<\/em>, with his research based on Soviet infant mortality rates.<\/div>\n
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Another key reason was his 2002 book\u00a0Apres L\u2019Empire<\/em>, a sort of preview of the Empire\u2019s Decline and Fall published a few months before Shock & Awe in Iraq.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Now Todd, in what he has defined as his last book (\u201cI closed the circle\u201d) allows himself to go for broke and meticulously depict the defeat not only of the US but of the West as a whole \u2013 with his research focusing in and around the war in Ukraine.<\/div>\n
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Considering the toxic NATOstan environment where Russophobia and cancel culture reign supreme, and every deviation is punishable, Todd has been very careful not to frame the current process as a Russian victory in Ukraine…<\/div>\n
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Pepe Escobar: How the West Was Defeated \u00a9\u00a0AFP 2023 Emmanuel Todd, historian, demographer, anthropologist, sociologist and political analyst, is part of a dying breed: one of the very few remaining exponents of old school French intelligentzia \u2013 a heir to those like Braudel, Sartre, Deleuze and Foucault who dazzled successive young Cold War generations from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9589,4076,694,34080,821,827,834,965],"class_list":["post-66500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-imperial-decline","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia","tag-sputnik-international","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66501,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66500\/revisions\/66501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}