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Sure but if Russia succeeds (which looks like they do) itll be a huge blow to Western imperialism and to US hegemony (which I support)
Um no it won’t, all this means is that the western imperialists are being forced to double down and become even more erratic and oppressive. I live in Europe I didn’t vote for any of this fucking shit and now I have to deal with our glorious leaders deciding that they’re going to send us all to war. Hell even if Russia does win it’s not as if Russia is some anti capitalist state and is going to swoop in to help the oppressed proletariat in western nations plan a revolution. Russia loves supporting far right militias in Europe just as much as NATO does. You’re just swapping one ruling class for another, if cheering for various bourgeois psychos is how you enjoy free time then be my guest. Don’t pretend that this will help any normal person though.
Somehow I doubt that when and if the US empire falls that the geopolitical entity that fills its place will be some peace loving state that will usher in 1000 years of prosperity. It’ll just be the same shit with a different face. If you view global politics and the world like a chessboard like so many of our deal leaders all over the world do you’ll never break away from control and domination.
Edit: Don’t fall for vulgar Marxist rhetoric that uses the language of anti imperialism to reenforce the metabolism of capital and domination. You accused other people of not having read theory check out István Mészáros Beyond Capital.
Yes it does as it signals to the rest of the world that it can't enforce it's interests militarily anymore
No one says it is. You do know what revolutionary defeatism is right?
Not the ones in the imperial core, but in the global south it'll at least give breathing room for revolutionary movements
It looks to be a multipolar world. If you assume zero sum and view geopolitics as a grand chess board you likely think a new hegemon will take it's place
Thank u for the recommendation.
I had a long ass fucking response typed out but then my phone died and I lost it. So you're getting a shitty short summary.
I don't think the west has learned any lesson if the United States thought they had been defeated militarily why the fuck did they park their most expensive death machines off of the coast of Venezuela? Trump just likes Putin and likes the idea of ending wars that's why he's rushing to end this war now. He also painted the Ukraine was as being a democrat war which also why I think he wants to end it. I also have no idea what weird fucking dirt Putin has on Trump but I know he has something. I don't think Russia necessarily wants to keep the war going either to be honest and I think if they were forced to keep it going for another 3 years they would be pretty fucked.
I don't know if the multi polar world is going to be all that its cracked up to be, but ya lets see. By the end of the century our global economy is going to shrink because of all the environmental damage we've done to the planet, all these wars aren't going to slow down said destruction. So yeah I'm jealous that you have a positive view of the future because the way I see it the future is going to be more about surviving than thriving. I kinda envy the 20th century revolutionaries they got to have the hope that anything is possible in a world of endless opportunity where anything can be built. I feel like we have to come to terms with having less and less on a planet that was exploited more than it ever should have been just so a bunch of rich and powerful fucks could have their sex parties and yachts. Anyways this is a very shitty version of the much longer and more coherent post I had earlier. If you want I can send you a pdf of the book, IDK if everybody can open it because I downloaded it from the library.
Not what I'm saying. I'm saying other countries will see that the US isn't potent enough, as it lacks it's former industrial base, to enforce their interests militarily.
Venezuela isn't as strong of an enemy as Russia. Russia has been up until the Ukraine conflict one of the largest weapons exporters. The recently released US NSS basically admits that the US overextended itself. They also got chased away by Yemen.
the US overextended themselves as admitted in the NSS. Putin having leverage over Trump with some blackmail is too conspiratorial/lib imo
True I agree. It's definitely a tendency that exists.