• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Because I feel the evolving multipolarity would have been occurring anyway, I don’t think the geopolitical implications of a western “defeat” here are worth the continuing loss of life.

    Western leftists often historically have “felt” that progress happens on its own, imagining a hypothetical idealist universe where everything good happens without anything bad. It’s ahistorical and just silly. There’s one country actually defeating and damaging the US empire in reality, but instead you want a parallel reality where America damages itself

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      1 year ago

      progress happens on its own

      I don’t think this is the case. I think China’s economic gains are causing it to happen without any senseless loss of life.

      America damages itself

      This happens all the time. There’s about to be a government shutdown again. We’re continuing to provoke this unwinnable trade war with China for no clear purpose.