RadixJournal - Richard Spencer - Israel as The Center of The World
Aired: 2026-03-11
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=== The Russian Realm's Liberal Ideology (02:35) ===

[00:00:00]  So there is multipolarity as a kind of ideology, and then there is multipolarity as a description.
[00:00:08]  So multipolarity as an ideology is deriving from Alexander Dugan and people around him.
[00:00:16]  And it is a kind of liberal liberalism for the world where all of these great like gross realms can have their like indigenous cultures and do whatever they want.
[00:00:31]  But how dare a one gross realm invade another?
[00:00:35]  There's the American realm and that's fine.
[00:00:40]  You do you, babe.
[00:00:42]  But how dare you even contemplate interfering in the Russian realm?
[00:00:47]  The Russian realm is basically structured around the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, more or less, and they can just do whatever they want.
[00:00:57]  So it's a kind of convenient ideology for someone like Dugan to put forward and to put forward through his many acolytes in the sense that Russia has its own really serious problems.
[00:01:11]  Russia can't win wars, at least against countries that are getting backed by NATO.
[00:01:19]  NATO troops are never on the ground, but they're certainly getting backing.
[00:01:23]  They can't win these wars.
[00:01:25]  And worse still, the Russian realm is less attractive, in fact, than the Soviet Union.
[00:01:33]  And the Soviet Union dealt with this sort of delegitimacy crisis, but Russia really deals with it.
[00:01:40]  No one wants to be a part of the Russian realm.
[00:01:43]  And I've said this before, but I know this is like a Twitter meme, but it's also one of the few Twitter memes that's 100% accurate, which is that NATO expands through handshakes and consensus and through basically popularity among the people.
[00:02:02]  Ditto, the European Union, different related thing.
[00:02:06]  Russia only expands through tanks and claiming that there are Russian speakers in another country that Russia must protect for some reason.
[00:02:18]  And that's it.
[00:02:18]  No one wants to be a part of that world.
[00:02:21]  And that's just a brutal reality that Russia has no answer for.
[00:02:25]  But so, basically, multi-polarity as an ideology is highly convenient for the Russians, to put it mildly.

=== Israel as the Spiritual Center (07:39) ===

[00:02:35]  But there's also multi-polarity as a kind of description.
[00:02:42]  That is, regardless of the theorizing of Alexander Dugan, are we entering a multipolar world?
[00:02:50]  Now, my view is that I don't think we're ever going to enter a truly multipolar world due to advances in technology, communications, the spread of a lingua franca around the planet, the creation of a almost homogeneous man, basically.
[00:03:14]  Nietzsche was talking about this in terms of Europe, where he wanted to all even then in the mid to late 19th century, just move past nationalism, et cetera, because we already have a European man that exists.
[00:03:30]  And this is, of course, in the age of train travel and the telegraph and maybe some precedents for things like the automobile and highways and telephones and computers, et cetera.
[00:03:42]  But he recognized that even then.
[00:03:45]  Certainly, universal Christianity is a major part of this as well, and the kind of universalism and egalitarianism that entails.
[00:03:54]  So I basically agree with Nietzsche that multipolarity is not going to happen.
[00:04:00]  Like we live in a society, but we live on a planet and we can talk to each other immediately on a planet.
[00:04:07]  What happens somewhere happens everywhere due to the technology of the internet and web.
[00:04:15]  And we are creating, for better and for worse, a sort of homogeneous mankind that thinks of himself as bearing rights and as dignified and as a good consuming citizen.
[00:04:34]  So I don't think that multipolarity works.
[00:04:38]  I think it's a kind of trad LARP, in fact, coming from Duganism as an ideology, but I don't think it works even as a kind of analysis of what's happening.
[00:04:49]  But I think that Israel might want to be, Israel might very well be playing different games in an emerging multipolar world in its perception, and at least in its perception that the United States days are behind them.
[00:05:09]  The best days are behind us.
[00:05:11]  Whatever Herzl wanted, whatever the early communists wanted, excuse me, the early Zionists wanted, they were in many ways, not necessarily Soviet, but certainly socialist and communist, nationalist, Jews, stop being these bankers living in Vienna and Paris.
[00:05:33]  Go get on the land and start farming.
[00:05:36]  And yeah, you should work out and start taking supplements.
[00:05:39]  You should deadlift 500 at the very least, fellow Jews.
[00:05:43]  That was the line back in the day.
[00:05:46]  And there was a, as Zionism developed, it became part of an American empire.
[00:05:54]  And so for a very long time, there was a notion that we are Pax Americana's military base or aircraft carrier in the Middle East.
[00:06:04]  We love free markets.
[00:06:06]  We have a tech industry.
[00:06:07]  We're basically Americans.
[00:06:09]  And of course, you should support us.
[00:06:11]  We're the only democracy in the Middle East.
[00:06:13]  That's not true, of course, but we're the only American-style democracy in the Middle East.
[00:06:17]  There was just this embrace of the West.
[00:06:20]  And that existed uncomfortably with Israeli identity and even Israeli hopes and dreams of expansion and hegemony and et cetera.
[00:06:35]  But I don't know.
[00:06:37]  Maybe Israel is trying to sell itself as the center of the world in an increasingly multipolar world.
[00:06:48]  And what I mean by this is that like the classic theory of the center of the universe is McKinder and its heartland theory.
[00:07:00]  And it is about natural resource production, et cetera.
[00:07:06]  But there's also a kind of like spiritual center of the world as well.
[00:07:11]  And Israel benefits from the fact that is Jerusalem.
[00:07:16]  And so evangelical Christians believe that this is where Jesus is going to return to us.
[00:07:24]  And Jesus walked on the sand in what is Israeli, and I guess in many cases, Palestinian territory, Bethlehem's in Palestine, et cetera.
[00:07:36]  But that's his place.
[00:07:38]  And it makes sense to them in some weird way that the Jews should be in charge of it.
[00:07:44]  Jerusalem remains the center of the world in Muslim apocalyptic scenarios as Jerusalem also plays a major factor there.
[00:07:56]  And of course, Professor Chang might be wrong about some things, but I did see that he had a clip where he was right that the Jews wrote the Quran, by the way.
[00:08:06]  And much like they created Christianity, they also created Islam.
[00:08:11]  And lo and behold, it functions in a kind of parallel structural way as Christian end times philosophy.
[00:08:20]  And Jerusalem is right at the center of it.
[00:08:22]  That's where Muhammad took his ride all the way to Jerusalem and back.
[00:08:28]  So Israel might very well want to become or remain a kind of spiritual center of the universe.
[00:08:37]  There's like a heartland theory where Israel, but it's about religion and Christians in America will love it.
[00:08:45]  Europeans, too much atheism, but some of them will love it.
[00:08:49]  We'll have some economic dealings with Chinese, the China, we're still working on them.
[00:08:54]  Russia, we have deep ties that go back a long way.
[00:08:58]  We'll keep a finger in that pie and foot in that camp, so to speak.
[00:09:04]  But the Islamic world, they hate us.
[00:09:07]  They're bastards, but they ultimately just can't help but love us or can't help but feel that we are immensely important as we are to their religion.
[00:09:19]  And so this is something, as I said, I'm still working on this idea, but there's a heartland theory revolving around natural resources, but there's also a sort of heartland theory revolving around spirituality.
[00:09:34]  And if the heartland of natural resources is Ukraine or things like that, the heartland of spirituality is Jerusalem.
[00:09:42]  And I think Israel is working out how it can deal with a post-pox Americana world.
[00:09:50]  America's falling.
[00:09:52]  It's a degenerate, OnlyFans society.
[00:09:57]  Nothing lasts forever.
[00:09:58]  30, 40 trillion in debt.
[00:10:01]  Are you even fucking kidding me at this point?
[00:10:03]  They see the writing on the wall and they might want to start finding new ways of being the center of the universe in an increasingly multipolar world.
[00:10:14]  Just something I've been thinking about.