On Jan. 8, the German weekly Der Spiegel asked an important question: “With his attack on Venezuela and threats against Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump is challenging the existing world order. Does his worldview reflect the thinking of German theorist Carl Schmitt?”
Raving sexual pervert, Jew-hater, “Nazi Crown Jurist” Carl Schmitt, according to Der Spiegel, is widely appreciated today, as well by the New Right as by the Far Left, each side agreeing that violence is the defining force of history and that every nation needs an “existential” enemy. However, less known but highly relevant, is Schmitt’s notion of “Nomos,” a world order he says reflects (fascist) “Natural Law": a multipolar word order based on the sharing of world power among competing hegemonic regional “states” (in reality transcending their geographical borders), each having their “Grossraum” (Greater Region)—a fancier name for the openly Darwinian concept of “Lebensraum.” On April 1st 1939, Schmitt presented this German contribution to international law in Kiel, two weeks after the Wehrmacht invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Ten years before Schmitt, Hitler had already called for a “German Monroe Doctrine,” pretending the Monroe Doctrine—supposedly giving imperial rights to the U.S. to do whatever they wanted in their Grossraum of the “Western Hemisphere”—implied, by mere reciprocity, giving a free hand to Germany in its own European hemisphere. Schmitt considered U.S. intervention in Europe during World War I a “violation” of the Monroe Doctrine. Of course, such a legalistic, Aristotelian interpretation of international law was not only absent from, but completely contrary to the original intent of the Monroe Doctrine as conceived by John Quincy Adams.
