Don’t let the title fool you, this is not a video just about Putin and Xi preparing for US sanctions, this is a surprisingly intelligent discussion about macroeconomics and world-historic development, albeit from a non-Marxist perspective.

It is interesting to note how different political orientations converge on the recognition of the need for planning and the establishment of a radically different economic-systemic paradigm that is not ruled by finance capital. It is becoming clear for all but the most diehard liberal fanatics to see that the neoliberal system, itself the final stage of the centuries old western capitalist-imperialist paradigm, is coming to an end.