Wow. Although I do still think it is written with some LLM assistance, and I don't think the authors sincerely believe the absurd alt-history they're espousing in this article, I am sad to say I think your assessment here is actually spot-on.

I got a slop vibe after reading just a little of it, and then clicked away and skimmed their other article titles ("Based International Law", "The GIGACHAD Approach", "Shitposting as a National Asset", etc). then clicked to the homepage and saw their "Generated Affairs" (thisforeignaffairsarticledoesnotexist.com) LLM thing under Special Projects, and I naively concluded that the whole thing was merely an edgelord trolling project.

Looking at it a little closer now (and seeing that their other link under Special Projects https://rickovercorpus.org/ is actually a serious thing which links back and thanks them for funding) I am also horrified.

I still think it is an edgelord trolling project, but it is one with a likelihood to be seriously influencing actually-powerful people 😱