Apologies for the url being a screenshot, for some reason the lemmur app won’t let me paste in the URL box, so here’s the link to the article: https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/1/headlines/house_speaker_pelosi_will_visit_taiwan_despite_warnings_from_china
US is feeling really ballsy lately. Would be hilarious if their response was to start meeting with leaders of seperatists in Hawaii, Texas, Puerto Rico, Alaska, even California lmao. Do you guys think they’re trying to force a confrontation while Russia is bogged down in Ukraine? Kinda seems like that is their goal. Bog down Russia as long as possible and while Russia is busy take advantage of US having all of Europe in a firm bloc? They are also trying to form a bloc I feel to slow down the insane amount of trade china does with Europe, but if they keep up the sanctions on Russia and China we may see some European countries go neutral or even side with china out of pure economic necessity. The US economy is collapsing and dollar hegemony in waning- even Saudi Arabia is now trading with china in yuan.
The US only has like 10 years of military (esp naval) supremacy left to act, and its war industry is one of last export industries left ( the others being tech and finance capital ). After that China passes them not just economically (which it already has) but militarily, and they have to take the whiny british / european approach to exiting history.
So it remains a real possibility that it tries to start a war with China or Russia within a few years.
It sounds odd but dying empires often going on suicidal war rampages near their death, but they overextend themselves because their existing sources of surplus value are drying up, and conquering new territory, with an already developed war industry, is one of the easiest ways to get more.
my fam is in tech, I won’t ever work for the US again
Ten years is a fairly long time. Long enough to nuke the planet many times over. That’s what I meant - the ruling class seems just desperate enough to see the death of humanity as the lesser evil (for themselves)