The amount of conflicts going on in the world is mindbonggling. Truly decades happening in weeks like Lenin said. Right now Biden’s trying really hard to link the Palestinian resistence and “terrorism” with Iran in his tweets and statements, which brings back memories of Bush doing the same thing about Iraq after 9/11. Like Goebells said, repeat something enough and it becomes true.
As a result, it looks like the US may very well go to war with Iran in the close future. We’re already proxy warring Russia in Ukraine, but US aid is starting to run dry (correct me if I’m wrong) and it seems like the US will eventually get bored of Ukraine.
The problem here is that Republicans are warhawking for proxy war with China over Taiwan, and some of them are talking about invading Mexico as well. If Biden starts a war with Iran the Republicans will probably be on board. Americans are getting sick of sleepy Biden running their country, and it seems like in the 2024 elections Republicans have a strong chance of winning. If they hold true to their promises, the US could be involved in 3 wars at once, which would be an enormous hit to the economy. The only way I see this playing out is the US shifting to a war economy like Nazi Germany did to prevent the already fragile and heavily indebted economy from collapsing. The US could become even more fascist than it already is, reaching Nazi levels of insanity.
My mind’s running a bit on this one, so someone please tell me any more insights on this or any mistakes I have made.
The US no longer has the factories, shipyards, or airplane manufacturing facilities it had before WWII. Everything has been outsourced and hollowed out. The shipyards are luxury condos now. There are no typewriter factories to churn out tommy guns. There really isn’t a productive economy to convert to wartime use.
Neoliberalism has created an economy that cannot serve the public interest or good. I kind of hope they try and fall flat on their faces.