In my last essay, I made the case that a specifically Eurasian expression of Manifest Destiny has emerged in recent years sharing many important parallels with the original Manifest Destiny often associated with 19th century America, but with one big difference. Unlike the earlier U.S. variant, the current Eurasian version is not being used as a big stick to smash small nations and minority groups into obedience to an elitist master class.
I've been a fan of your work for several years, since discovering it on Strategic Culture Foundation. Your testimony for the Corona Committee Grand Jury was fantastic!
I just came across it while researching colonial history in New York City. I don't know much beyond the Wikipedia article linked above, but it seems to me it was similar to the Indigenous North American Confederation of Nations. It seems it was an alliance of convenience made up of northern European tribes or municipalities over a large area and operated for the mutual benefit of its members and their communities. It had no permanent administrative apparatus. It operated by consensus. And it did not practice usury.
Then it seems it was either co-opted or destroyed by powerful interests from the south that immediately instituted usury and debt. I bet we can productively speculate who these powerful interests were.
Of course, Wikipedia gaslights us by saying the Hanseatic League was a precursor to the European Union.
Anyway.... I hope you will use your remarkable talents for research, analysis and communication to shed some light on this interesting and neglected topic.
Hi Matthew,
I've been a fan of your work for several years, since discovering it on Strategic Culture Foundation. Your testimony for the Corona Committee Grand Jury was fantastic!
Have you heard of the Hanseatic League? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
I just came across it while researching colonial history in New York City. I don't know much beyond the Wikipedia article linked above, but it seems to me it was similar to the Indigenous North American Confederation of Nations. It seems it was an alliance of convenience made up of northern European tribes or municipalities over a large area and operated for the mutual benefit of its members and their communities. It had no permanent administrative apparatus. It operated by consensus. And it did not practice usury.
Then it seems it was either co-opted or destroyed by powerful interests from the south that immediately instituted usury and debt. I bet we can productively speculate who these powerful interests were.
Of course, Wikipedia gaslights us by saying the Hanseatic League was a precursor to the European Union.
Anyway.... I hope you will use your remarkable talents for research, analysis and communication to shed some light on this interesting and neglected topic.
Best wishes and Godspeed.
Daniel Atha
New York City
danieleatha@gmail.com