Re: <nettime> Germany's geopolitics

[Stefan Heidenreich <mail@stefanheidenreich.de>]

Hi  Pit,
with the thread firmly back in the closet, I thought to give a second 
look at your text.
Let me try to better point out the Schmittian fallcy: it looks at the 
situation assuming the wrong actors, as in realist 'nations'. Parts of 
the world operate indeed 'post-westphalian' - but not necessarily in the 
sense of Bratton. Rather, think of 'rules-based'-tyranny.

In this environment, vasall states are not supposed to run their own 
geopolitics. They're not even allowed to make a distinction of friend 
and enemy of their own. That is why, in Germany, one is supposed to look 
the other way when 'friends' destroy critical infrastructure.

For now, all that is left are clandestine interests and political 
double-speak. As in Scholz purportedly flying to China, Brazil, and 
India, just to get slapped in the face. Or Merkel lying about MinskII to 
save her ass.

So, the big question is: which interests will emerge once that war is 
over / lost. And who of the relevant actors will be able to make the 
next steps. A Schmittian view will not be of much help in that 
situation, because it hides networks of interests behind binary 
destinctions. You'd need a Bayesian, not a binary decision tree.

When it comes to the result, I'm with you on this point:
> So transatlanticism needs to be balanced with tianxia - especially to
> enable the shared green transition and to give the global south a more
> confident and dynamic position, not just as a lithium resource.
A "prussian" and European version of tianxia would be the political 
economy of Friedrich List, or the MMT forerunners Knapp and Stützel, not 
to speak of the unnamable ...

> the Silk Road and big infrastructure projects, the Kantian
> Konfuzianism of "under one sky", need to be repositioned against the
> ever-fading American dream.
No. Not against. That's exactly the Schmittian trap. Once Washington 
succeeds to liberate itself from the Neocon-cabal that has taken over 
the uni-party, one should rebuild relations across the Atlantic, as much 
as across Europe and Asia. That is the 'geopolitics'-background from 
which I tend to read the recent travels of Scholz, assuming the widely 
communicated slaps in the face were just double-speak messaging to the 
overlord. But maybe I'm too optimistic.

S

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