Philip Pilkington
@philippilk
Macroeconomist/investment professional. Author forthcoming: The Collapse of Global Liberalism. Host of the Multipolarity podcast, @MultipolarPod.
My book The Collapse of Global Liberalism has launched - in Belgrade! In this talk I explain why global liberalism began its collapse during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign - I also address the attitude of liberals toward the region and the nature of liberalism. YouTube 🔗👇
On Wednesday July 16th 2025, Philip Pilkington travelled to Belgrade, to launch his new book in the city whose bombing, by NATO in 1999, marked the apex of Global Liberalism. In this 45 minute talk, he sets out his position on why Global Liberalism is both bad and ending.
The smart money knows that the West is basically collapsing and that the country that will collapse first is the UK. In more sophisticated circles this is not a controversial opinion. 🇬🇧


Watching Tucker take this fake German journalist apart over Nordstream and Germany being a humiliated vassal is one of the cringiest things I’ve ever watched. But it tells you where Germany is as a country right now. Very sad. 🇩🇪📉
Inflation is starting to hit Japan. It can no longer avoid the dynamics forced on it by a severely aging population. Living standards are starting to fall too. Let this be a warning to other aging countries. 🇯🇵

Looks like the US are adopting Iranian drone designs. 2025 is a weird year, that’s all I’ll say. 🇺🇸🇮🇷


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China is in a tough spot. It's exports to the US are down -24% q/q in Jun '25. Exporters have only 2 options: (i) transship to the US; (ii) export goods to other countries at a discount to generate demand. Either way, a big hit to profitability and a deflationary shock for China.
So… the Hungarian polls showing Fidesz losing by 15 points (lol!) were all fake. Imagine my shock. It’s sort of pathetic that the globo liberal types are just spending their NGO money on fake polling so they can justify the NGO money to keep flowing. Complete grift. 🇭🇺
Hungary, Magyar Társadalomkutató poll: Fidesz/KDNP-PfE: 49% TISZA-EPP: 41% (+7) DK-S&D: 3% (-1) MH-ESN: 3% (-2) +/- vs. 16-18 December 2024 Fieldwork: 30 June - 02 July 2025 Sample size: 1,000 ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary
People have no idea what happened in Georgia before the present government got elected. The main TV station was raided, its equipment was smashed and it was put under full government control. Those complaining about Georgian Dream are anti-free speech authoritarians. 🇬🇪
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About half way through, well written, love reading it. When does your next book come out? Lol
USD hegemony crumbling right before our eyes. Are there still people out there goonishly pointing to ‘% of total reserves’ charts? 💵📉


Bloomberg now openly hinting that the liberal global order is collapsing. They must have gotten a copy of my book! 🌍📉

I agree with @UKDefJournal that UK military spending is a mess. Their navy is dysfunctional and should probably be scrapped, Trident missiles don’t work and are pointless and it’s unclear what the airforce does. They should scrap it all and invest in naval defence and drones. 🇬🇧
You posting about UK military dysfunction is the one thing we’d actually agree on. Welcome to the beat... we’ve only been covering it daily since 2014.
If you want proof of the narcissistic culture of death that is late liberalism I strongly recommend Ganesh’s latest. Hard recommend reading while The Strokes’ ‘Is This It?’ plays in the background. Liberalism is grey and old - still in skinny jeans. It won’t last long. 🪦

The people claiming 38,000 sorties were flown against Belgrade are saying the bombing campaign was twice as intensive as Gaza. Gaza has been flattened. Belgrade is largely untouched. Unbelievable to me how gullible people are. They just love “pub talk”. 🇬🇧
What did I lie about? That 1000+ aircraft managed 38,000 sorties in 11 weeks? That roughly 605 of them managed to perform 10,000 attack sorties in 11 weeks? Using a bit of maths and you'll find it isn't really a lie.
Hungarian birth rates are pretty solid outside of Budapest. The government should probably focus more energy on these regions and ignore Budapest. 🇭🇺
Hungary just released its regional fertility rates for 2024. They ranged from 1.04 children per woman in Budapest to over 1.7 in the northeastern parts of the country. Hungary has one of the most pronounced urban/rural contrasts among developed countries.