The same reason America supports Ukraine, the mujahideen and any other terrorist forces in recent history - to turn the regions into wastelands to achieve their geopolitical aims without having to sacrifice the lives of a single American soldier. It’s that simple.
I don’t know about that. In America, the conservatives think performing abortion is a sin. There are crazy people out there who are on the brink of committing violence as soon as they realize how much they can get away with it.
All good until crazy chuds get inspired and start killing doctors and nurses. That’s what I am really afraid of.
I mean, lots of people are going to have their lives upended. It’s not something to joke about.
In the face of rampant US imperialism, the Global Majority needs to get their shit together (especially the countries who have the actual means and resources to fight back) or else the empire will continue to wreak havoc on the world.
Most of us here are probably just spectators (at least so far) but there are people who will have to live with the consequences.
It’s too early to tell what Trump II will look like.
I mean, CEO isn’t exactly shareholders. CEO executes the dirty job to make shareholders rich. They can simply appoint another CEO to take over the job.
The real difficult part is to organize a sustained and protracted political movement that challenges the bourgeois class and actually makes progress in achieving its political goals. That’s the hard part.
I refuse to believe that Biden somehow managed to break Assad’s curse. Or maybe he’s already cursed and doesn’t give a fuck anymore.
Dengism ended in 1996 with China’s first economic crisis with an unemployment rate never seen before under Mao, and when it joined the WTO in 2001. 2001-2013 was just neoliberalism. That’s when China got rid of the last vestiges of its labor protection (an even worse deal than India’s WTO terms). The number of Chinese students who went to study in the US and other countries exploded after 2001.
Xi came to power in 2013 and has been trying to steer the country back to Marxism since. You can consider the 13th FYP (2016-2020) as Xi’s first actual term of enacting his preferred version of economic policies. If you’ve been following the news from China from the past 3 years, there has been a concerted push to get rid of the libs, especially during the 20th Congress in 2022. That effort appeared to have failed (I don’t know, just speculating from the recent turn of events). If anything, I consider the end of Zero Covid in December 2022 the first victory for the liberals and they have been turning the tide toward their favor since.
And if you ask me why China chose to join the WTO in 2001, remember the bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the Hainan Island incident in early 2001. China was far weaker at the time (and the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 taught them how stability must prevail at all cost), it was a strategic decision to hug the US economy as tightly as possible under the illusion that the US would not turn hostile toward China if both countries have already been so deeply intertwined (你中有我，我中有你 - you are inside me, and I am inside you). A decision that would have lasting consequences in the decades to come.
I have been restraining from commenting on this incident until further information is known, because there is still a chance that someone innocent is being framed for the assassination (by the corporations and the police force) while the actual shooter got away.
Sorry just conspiracy brained.
Egypt’s economy has been in tatters, especially after the US hiked its interest rates. It is already running out of money to import food and fuel. No matter who ends up being the government, accepting Gazan refugees will place further strains on their economy, and it is in their selfish interest to deny Palestinian refugees into the borders.
Again, when we think about anti-imperialism, it has to come with decolonization, and that requires a complete overhaul of the hegemonic system controlled by the US empire. People keep saying I am obsessed with de-dollarization instead of focusing on the military defeat of the imperialist powers, but really it is difficult to fight imperialism without establishing a new alternative system to accommodate the decolonization process.
The American left needs to turn this into a political movement - a sustained and protracted one, if they want to be taken seriously.
We’ve seen how much of an utter failure the US left was during the Covid pandemic. Hopefully they have learned the lessons by now. Otherwise no amount of crises can turn things around if nobody is interested in seizing the opportunity.
Wen Tiejun wasn’t wrong in that nationalism/patriotism was behind the driving force of Chinese communism. In fact, nationalism and patriotism are fundamentally rooted in most if not all anti-colonial struggles. Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh etc. were all patriots first and Fidel and Ho only came to socialism after being denied cooperation with the US. Even Mao preferred the US to Stalin’s USSR at first.
However, the US isn’t a colony (unless you go way back but that’s irrelevant), it is an imperial power. You cannot compare the nationalist movements in the imperial core to the colonial struggles in the Global South, as the historical development of both forms of patriotic movements were fundamentally different.
Having said that, it is true that a lot of boomer Chinese communists prefer the social conservative form of MAGA movements to the “white left aka baizuo” liberal movement in the West. I’ve even seen people cheering for Trump because he’s finally going to take down the “woke movement” (觉醒运动). Sometimes it’s that stupid.
I am not making any connection between the two, just pointing out that these are two speculative assets people are buying in.
When you see an asset price goes up like this, it’s because people are chasing the highs and fear of missing out. Same with gold. It’s not even an “inflation hedge” like when gold price sometimes goes up during times of economic uncertainty, it’s pure speculation.
You gotta ask yourself if these assets are really worth the values they are currently priced at? These speculative assets are so much divorced from the real economy that when a recession comes, they’re the first to go.
Also, the true value of bitcoin is NEGATIVE, when you consider how much energy it took to “mine” them. The cost of production for crypto is far higher than gold production due to its intense energy input. There’s nothing quite like that.
For only as long as the US doesn’t enter a recession. Same with gold.
Sounds like someone was afraid of him revealing certain information.
Anything from January 1st, 2014 until December 1st, 2024 is permitted, as covered by the Biden Decree.
That means pretty much anything from the start of the Maidan coup regime taking power in Ukraine to the present day.
They’re not rejects, and possibly some of the best students ever produced. I mean, Justin Lin Yifu himself was the first ever Chinese PhD student to have graduated from the Chicago school of economics, and the protege of Theodore Schultz (co-founder of Chicago school with Milton Friedman).
There are generally three main viewpoints from the liberal economists in China today:
All of the three viewpoints above are, of course, products of neoliberal ideological indoctrination and I will write more in the future if I have the time, about why many Global South countries who followed these principles made themselves highly vulnerable to Western colonialism.
If we have decades. If we live in the Destroyer of the World timeline we might not have decades. If we are in the Executed as War Criminal timeline then we might have a chance.
Now Biden just needs to start a war with China to complete what everything Obama, Clinton and Trump could have and would have started. He’s speedrunning to unlock the achievement “Destroyer of the World”.
44 days left.