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He was wrong about some things like specific countries and little regions. The books not perfect but beyond those mistakes the general idea seems to be completely true.

>> No.20158057
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>>20157798
And every time I bring up Mearsheimer, who is 100% right, I get flack.

>> No.20159783

>>20157798
Most of the important rivalries, conflicts, and wars today are intra-"civilizational":
>Iran vs Saudi Arabia vs Qatar
>Russia vs Ukraine
>Latin American leftists vs Latin American rightists
>PRC vs ROC
>DPRK vs ROK
>both sides in the Second Congo War
And the inter-"civilizational" issues like the US vs China or Israel vs Palestine don't strictly fall along the lines of "civilizations" either; Vietnam is geopolitically closer to the US than to China, and Israel is allied with some Muslim states (though usually the average Muslim in those countries is personally anti-Israel).

>> No.20159787

>>20157798
Yeah but you also have functional and non functional cultures. Euro/NorthAm and East Asian being the functional ones. <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/eb07a2c8_konata.png">