• redtea
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    1 year ago

    Let’s hope the solution isn’t Kissingerian.

    I saw that post about Algeria offering $1.5bn to underpin the BRICS bank and couldn’t help but think what they could’ve done with Qaddafi’s support, too. Murdered just before his dream would come true? Or will the US put a stop to this latest effort?

    I don’t see how it’s possible, this time. It’s easy to isolate e.g. Nkrumah or Qaddafi, but when 30%+ of global GDP has a public end united plan to de-dollarise…

    I think we’re not far off finding out just how delusional are the US imperialists. It’s now or never for them. Are they willing to gamble all life on earth for a chance at a few more decades of capitalism? Or will they accept that this is the start of their undoing and there’s no coming back?

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      Are they willing to gamble all life on earth for a chance at a few more decades of capitalism?

      Depressing but I think the answer to this is yes, absolutely.

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      Murdered just before his dream would come true?

      It’s pretty revolting that Gaddafi is dead and Libya lies in ruins and Sauds are now doing exactly what he died for.

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      1 year ago

      What does acceptance even look like?

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        Maybe in a negative sense? Like not nuking anywhere. I can’t see acceptance being much more than that. I’m hoping that with the time and space that BRICS provides by dedollarising, the western left gets it’s act together and prevents the imperialists from causing too much damage. Got to remain optimistic, however dire it looks.

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          Last time I tried to game it out I got denigrated for fantasizing.

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            It needs thinking about. To be able to respond to whatever is coming next. There are just so many variables so a big part of it will always sound like a fantasy! The best we can hope for is working out a range of scenarios and hoping for the best.

            At this rate, climate change might do for the western world before a revolution. The temperature on land and in the ocean, fires everywhere. Ice caps are melting so fast this year that the last time we saw this little ice was over 7 million years ago, according to Xitter (I believe the X is pronounced in the Chinese way, like the X in Xi).

            Whatever the imperialists have up their sleeves better not involve logistics because their chances of pulling it off are dwindling by the day. Not that this is anything to be pleased about in general.