US and Iran talks to begin as fears of direct conflict continue The US has built up its military presence in the Middle East in response to Iran's violent crackdown on protests.

Again #Witkoff and #Kushner are there for #Trump to make an economic deal that benefits him.
The people of #Iran, like those of #Venezuela and the ideas of #Justice and #Democracy have no meaning for this Neoroyalist regime.
#Neoroyalism
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‘Neoroyalism’ and What It Says About Trump

#Neoroyalism: under wannabe king #Trump foreign policy has become a tool to channel money and status to Trump and his closest associates and he is willing to collude with rivals in order to advance his court’s parochial interests.
#Corruption #NoKings
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‘Neoroyalism’ and What It Says About Trump

#neoroyalism

Seems to me to be a pretty good theory to explain #trump

#uspoli #uspolitics

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

US Foreign Policy Is Now Medieval The search continues for a framework to make sense of, or at least label, the baffling state of world affairs since Donald Trump took his second oath of office as president of the United States. And n...

“ a framework to understand the state of world affairs since 47 took office has led to a new contender: #NeoRoyalism.
Neo-royalism.. the proper unit of analysis is the leader and his clique, ..driven by a desire to generate wealth and status for his clique.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

#Neoroyalism www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

The Week the World Admitted the Truth About America Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 27/01/2026 · 1h 15m

Trump's fundamental weakness is he is incapable of committing to restrain himself in the future.” #Neoroyalism
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Opinion | This Theory Explains Trump’s Baffling Foreign Policy

"A neoroyalist world is not good for the United States, and it is not good for humanity. Its primary goal is extraction for the few rather than safety or prosperity for the many."

#Neoroyalism
#VoteThemOut
##DumpTrumpAgain

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

Neo-royalism means rules for you, none for billionaire donors to the king. Trump promised to end that. Solar power reduces their leverage. Who fears Epstein files?
👇 👇

#trump #epstein #neoroyalism
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Definition of L'ÉTAT, C'EST MOI the state, it is I : I myself am the nation… See the full definition

They are calling it #neoroyalism

Before I heard that phrase I was reminded of Louis XIV who addressed France’s parliament at that time this way:

“L’état c’est moi” (I am the state)

#history

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/l...

#neoroyalism

A new theory explains why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers Neo-royalism challenges us to look beyond a century-old paradigm and see the hierarchical lens through which Trump justifies domination.

#Neoroyalism
#AskWhy

A new order shaped by the private interests of individual men and their fiercest allies, not the interests, private or public, fair or foul, good or bad, of a nation.

A new theory explains why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im) The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American “neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox. “Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keating. It’s also clear in Trump’s habit of handling negotiations through family members and old business partners rather than the traditional bureaucracy. Political scientists Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman say Trump resorts to a “clique composed of family members (primarily his children), fierce loyalists (Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem), and elite hyper-capitalists (often tech elites like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen).” The clique tends to mix private interest and national interests in an open and unashamed way that’s totally alien to modern state bureaucracies. Other countries take advantage of this, like Russian representatives getting cushy deals by bypassing the more intelligent U.S. national security apparatus and convincing an administration of real estate salesmen (Steve Witkoff) to view Russia not as a military threat but as a “land of bountiful opportunity” involving energy, rare earth deals and even space exploration. “It’s misleading if you think of it just as corruption or just a degenerate category of neoliberalism,” said Newman, a political scientist at Georgetown University. “It’s an entirely different system of how actors distribute power amongst themselves.” https://www.alternet.org/trump-corruption-family-wealth/

Coining the term #neoroyalism is prototypical response for an insulated academic elite.

Chef’s kiss.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115673484256986289