US Vice President JD Vance made it clear that the West wants to keep poor Global South countries trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies.
Between Chinese Stalinism and US imperialism the economic conflict is clear. The former is a state run system that systematically seeks to replace monopoly rents with state provided infrastructure reducing the cost of living for working people. The latter is a system run by the billionaire and his desire for monopoly rents that produce nothing of social value. This system has only grown more unbalanced since 2008 forcing wage slaves to pay huge portions of their income to the monopolists for things that are simply considered basic infrastructure in China (rent, transportation, education, tolls, etc). The resulting cost of living in the west is thus so high that most wage slaves have no disposable income to spend at the end of the day, cannot develop economically and require wages that are very high leading to inflation, economic stagnation and very soon economic collapse.
Need I ask which of these two systems is destined to survive the conflict?
The US seeks military conflict as well, spending money on arranging a maritime blockade of trade routes at choke points which would severely damage China.
The Empire may be economically dying but don't underestimate the damage it can do before it goes.
The Chinese system, same as any system based on growth, though it's reinvesting in itself and becoming more reliant on solar and wind energy is also ecologically unsustainable; based on resource availability but also on the effect even greener energy has on the atmosphere and on agriculture.
No economy is going to survive the crisis for long.
It’s all about thinly veiled colonialism involving entrenching the US military and the members companies of the US Chamber of Commerce aka big biz inc.
Does it follow that if some of these original BRICS nations break the mold and get themselves into the "core" that other nations will follow suit or have a better opportunity at it? They've all but destroyed West Asia and the Arab world, I'm not sure how good Africa looks. South America is cursed by vicinity. Do these countries get themselves out eventually? And on China, is it unstoppable now short of a nuclear war? I mean how do you stop it outside of controlling (or destroying) all the countries critical to its continued growth? Does China sit idly by and watch a country like Iran be splintered by the West? (or Russia for that matter).
If we get out of this timeline alive, the fact that the West colonized the entire world may have been a blessing in disguise for humanity because it may have paved way for something better by necessity. The West's grip on the world is crippling but somehow here we are with some nations uniting in their fight against it. The hope is that, if we do get out alive, this unity through necessity creates something more egalitarian and equitable for everyone on this fuckin planet.
I saw Vances address the other day and I was thinking for all their faults this administration is speaking some truths. Trump has a tendency to speak the truth by accident sometimes. Like with regards to Yemen, they're trying to place the blame solely on Iran but Trump said something to the effect that Yemen manufactures their own missiles (and then he sidetracked and said "of course Iran supports them" but he was speaking highly of the Yemenis). Rubio saying the multipolar world was inevitable with Megyn Kelly earlier. At least some truths are coming out.
Good that the truth is coming out? Good that they openly say a multipolar world is inevitable while doing everything they possibly can to prevent it? Good that they admit that China is a peer in every respect and are doing everything they can to bring them down?
I didn't say any of that. You did. I said "at least" they're speaking some truths. It doesn't make me a fan of theirs nor trusting of them. I think they're all antithetical to humanity. But when they speak some truths, even if it's a result of their own stupidity, people may hear these truths and think about them. That was my point.
Seems Vance concern about China is reasonable considering the tech race, but tariffs, not defense is the way to go. We have a long history of tariffs, not income tax, going back to Lincoln and McKinley.
Between Chinese Stalinism and US imperialism the economic conflict is clear. The former is a state run system that systematically seeks to replace monopoly rents with state provided infrastructure reducing the cost of living for working people. The latter is a system run by the billionaire and his desire for monopoly rents that produce nothing of social value. This system has only grown more unbalanced since 2008 forcing wage slaves to pay huge portions of their income to the monopolists for things that are simply considered basic infrastructure in China (rent, transportation, education, tolls, etc). The resulting cost of living in the west is thus so high that most wage slaves have no disposable income to spend at the end of the day, cannot develop economically and require wages that are very high leading to inflation, economic stagnation and very soon economic collapse.
Need I ask which of these two systems is destined to survive the conflict?
The US seeks military conflict as well, spending money on arranging a maritime blockade of trade routes at choke points which would severely damage China.
The Empire may be economically dying but don't underestimate the damage it can do before it goes.
The Chinese system, same as any system based on growth, though it's reinvesting in itself and becoming more reliant on solar and wind energy is also ecologically unsustainable; based on resource availability but also on the effect even greener energy has on the atmosphere and on agriculture.
No economy is going to survive the crisis for long.
USA AND THE WEST ARE TERRORIST ECONOMICAL FOR AFRICA AND THE ASIAN COUNTRIES.
This is part of an even larger plan to form a Western Hememispher hegemony. It will rise up seemingly out of nowhere, like a miracle.
In truth it's been in gestation for over a century.
It's going to be one of the ten horns of the crown of the Beast System.
This strategy is implicit in the focus of US foreign policy
Example:
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/U.S.-Strategy-Toward-Sub-Saharan-Africa-FINAL.pdf
It’s all about thinly veiled colonialism involving entrenching the US military and the members companies of the US Chamber of Commerce aka big biz inc.
What a thoughtful Nation US is!
Thiel and the other neo-reactionaries would enslave Americans too if they can.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america
The Trump regime has no concept of a unified Global North. Us in Europe can look forward to betrayal and exploitation from Washington, DC.
https://substack.com/@phillipspobrien/note/c-103056479?r=4wo6l
https://substack.com/@workingtodayfortomorrow/note/c-103513156?r=4wo6l
As for China, their regime has its own plans for the countries of the Global South.
https://substack.com/@soapboxtrade/note/c-103511965?r=4wo6l
Well! No surprise.
"Accidentally" reveal the truth, or Vance doesn't give a flying fuck?
Does it follow that if some of these original BRICS nations break the mold and get themselves into the "core" that other nations will follow suit or have a better opportunity at it? They've all but destroyed West Asia and the Arab world, I'm not sure how good Africa looks. South America is cursed by vicinity. Do these countries get themselves out eventually? And on China, is it unstoppable now short of a nuclear war? I mean how do you stop it outside of controlling (or destroying) all the countries critical to its continued growth? Does China sit idly by and watch a country like Iran be splintered by the West? (or Russia for that matter).
If we get out of this timeline alive, the fact that the West colonized the entire world may have been a blessing in disguise for humanity because it may have paved way for something better by necessity. The West's grip on the world is crippling but somehow here we are with some nations uniting in their fight against it. The hope is that, if we do get out alive, this unity through necessity creates something more egalitarian and equitable for everyone on this fuckin planet.
I saw Vances address the other day and I was thinking for all their faults this administration is speaking some truths. Trump has a tendency to speak the truth by accident sometimes. Like with regards to Yemen, they're trying to place the blame solely on Iran but Trump said something to the effect that Yemen manufactures their own missiles (and then he sidetracked and said "of course Iran supports them" but he was speaking highly of the Yemenis). Rubio saying the multipolar world was inevitable with Megyn Kelly earlier. At least some truths are coming out.
Good that the truth is coming out? Good that they openly say a multipolar world is inevitable while doing everything they possibly can to prevent it? Good that they admit that China is a peer in every respect and are doing everything they can to bring them down?
I didn't say any of that. You did. I said "at least" they're speaking some truths. It doesn't make me a fan of theirs nor trusting of them. I think they're all antithetical to humanity. But when they speak some truths, even if it's a result of their own stupidity, people may hear these truths and think about them. That was my point.
Photo caption: “Guess where this thumb has been”
Andreessen Horowitz is a day late and a Yuan short, for idiot Vance’s program.
https://thecommonwealth.org/about/joining
Seems Vance concern about China is reasonable considering the tech race, but tariffs, not defense is the way to go. We have a long history of tariffs, not income tax, going back to Lincoln and McKinley.