It seems the US is on a warpath. They really do want china to invade. Hopefully this game of chicken doesn’t end in nuclear annihilation.
It seems the US is on a warpath. They really do want china to invade. Hopefully this game of chicken doesn’t end in nuclear annihilation.
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The only being able to plan 3 months at a time is very apt, since I’m pretty convinced the US thought that when Russia invaded they would gather a coalition of the “international community” and implement as many sanctions as possible on Russia, and that they would soon yield and be forced to the negotiating table because of it. That failed, and they seemingly have no plan B at all. The only plan now seems to be to try and keep it going as long as possible, because a Ukrainian defeat is not going to be good for the current ruling political establishment in the US, so they want to kick that can down the road hoping it’ll fall when a different ruling party is in power. Just like Afghanistan.
People like to think of western elites as sinister and shrewd schemers, but really they’re just egotistical numbskulls.
Also, the longer they keep it going the more “free real estate” will be generated there as Ukraine becomes increasingly weakened and impoverished and reliant on permanent outside “help” in “recovering” (neoliberal reforms).
Western governments and corporations met in Switzerland to plan harsh neoliberal economic policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, “open markets,” drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and “sell state-owned enterprises to private investors.”
Weapons manufacturers make bank now, while the “clean up crew” of neoliberal reformers are making way for other industries to buy up and drain Ukraine. So many weapons disappearing into the black market has the potential to create a permanent goldmine of instability where Ukraine will have to keep constantly rebuilding on the West’s terms and keep labor costs low.
I think politicians and state media will play hot potato with the issue and drop it whenever is convenient for them but the plunder will go on.
It’s multi pronged. Ukraine will be forced to borrow from the IMF and World Bank in the same endless debt-cycle that has created the entire “Third World”. Their resources will be given to the global corps to squeeze as much profit as possible while the majority of Ukranians will work ever harder for less and less.
At the end of the day it’s all backed by the missile and the jet, so there really is no objection that will stand.
Such is the playbook that has worked so well for the parasitic capitalist class
They probably want Ukraine to keep fighting for 2 more years so they can campaign on that in 2024 for the election
I have a feeling after the mid terms Ukraine will completely drop out of the western media consciousness except for maybe a couple isolated incidents and “victories” that make it to the press. Again, just like Afghanistan.
I mean, they’re encouraging the Ukraine to blow up a nuclear power plant and cause a nuclear disaster on a scale unseen since Chernobyl so… I dunno what the hell they are thinking.