Thiel: Can we believe that { examples } without American backing,
> I think that he's saying that foreign countries may be free to sanction or block US internet firms, but that the US should respond forcefully to such actions.
My read on that is he's obtusingly saying that "US (old) leaders" are prevented by the US Constitution from doing stuff they'd like to do .. and so instead they use five eyes allies and partners to do these things about the globe with a view to normalising them and bringing them to the US seemingly without direct US involvement.
It's commonly held that the US | UK | AU agencies spy on each others citizens in order to have clean hands and truthfully state that they don't spy on their own.
Presumeably he wants to champion Trump as someone to clean house, etc. but I have my doubts about the machinations of Thiel .. he's more complicate than most via the panopticon of Palantir .
That's a good insight, but, at the same time, it's not at all difficult to believe that a Brazilian judge in Brazil banned Twitter "without American backing."
That Monroe Doctrine jab also makes zero sense. The Doctrine doesn't hold that other countries in the Western hemisphere shouldn't be allowed to decide matters of law and trade policy for themselves.
All in all, what Thiel is trying to say is terribly unclear. Open to multiple Straussian interpretations, I guess.
> All in all, what Thiel is trying to say is terribly unclear.
We're in furiously colorless green sleepy agreement here.
Is this deliberate or old age creeping up on someone who once had realistic Supreme Court ambitions and clerked at the highest level in the US legal system.
> I think that he's saying that foreign countries may be free to sanction or block US internet firms, but that the US should respond forcefully to such actions.
My read on that is he's obtusingly saying that "US (old) leaders" are prevented by the US Constitution from doing stuff they'd like to do .. and so instead they use five eyes allies and partners to do these things about the globe with a view to normalising them and bringing them to the US seemingly without direct US involvement.
It's commonly held that the US | UK | AU agencies spy on each others citizens in order to have clean hands and truthfully state that they don't spy on their own.
Presumeably he wants to champion Trump as someone to clean house, etc. but I have my doubts about the machinations of Thiel .. he's more complicate than most via the panopticon of Palantir .