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It’s not thinly veiled. They’re pretty open they want decoupling and they intend to isolate and destroy China and anyone who doesn’t follow their edicts (aka the rules based order, the only real rule being obey the US).
And frankly I think they’re going to get their cold war. They have the strength to set it off and have made strong moves in that direction, decoupling is not something accomplished in a year or 3 but neither was western entanglement with China in the first place. The question is whether they have the strength to endure it for 30 years without succumbing to collapse or revolution and whether for that matter China has the strength, ideological and otherwise to stand up to them. A lot of IFs. Once the cold war is in the open the race to find a way to reliably suppress China’s nuclear response begins because that’s the only thing preventing the west from nuking their military and a small portion of the country to subdue China to then allow fragmenting it and exploiting its peoples and resources to fuel the capitalist nightmare machine another half century as if they were only so much wood.
There are of course other important factors, whether Russia folds which seems unlikely but they could always do an about-face or have someone more compromised maneuvered into place in Russian leadership after Putin dies or gets too old. And there is the reality that the US has designs to use India as a nuclear-armed Ukraine type proxy against China and would love to goad the two of them into a nuclear exchange, sparing the US and allowing the US to move in and grab prime land and peoples in two destroyed nations.
The US may want all this (and more, Project for a New American Century and all that), but the question is whether they can materially pull it off. When you realize they’ve spent the last 50 years outsourcing all production, increasingly putting finance capital in charge, you can really see the scale of the problem, quantitatively and qualitatively.
Does that mean it’s impossible? Or that the evil empire will go down without a fight? Of course not. But socialism is proving that it is more productive than capitalism, while capitalism continues to produce its own grave diggers.
It’s not thinly veiled. They’re pretty open they want decoupling and they intend to isolate and destroy China and anyone who doesn’t follow their edicts (aka the rules based order, the only real rule being obey the US).
And frankly I think they’re going to get their cold war. They have the strength to set it off and have made strong moves in that direction, decoupling is not something accomplished in a year or 3 but neither was western entanglement with China in the first place. The question is whether they have the strength to endure it for 30 years without succumbing to collapse or revolution and whether for that matter China has the strength, ideological and otherwise to stand up to them. A lot of IFs. Once the cold war is in the open the race to find a way to reliably suppress China’s nuclear response begins because that’s the only thing preventing the west from nuking their military and a small portion of the country to subdue China to then allow fragmenting it and exploiting its peoples and resources to fuel the capitalist nightmare machine another half century as if they were only so much wood.
There are of course other important factors, whether Russia folds which seems unlikely but they could always do an about-face or have someone more compromised maneuvered into place in Russian leadership after Putin dies or gets too old. And there is the reality that the US has designs to use India as a nuclear-armed Ukraine type proxy against China and would love to goad the two of them into a nuclear exchange, sparing the US and allowing the US to move in and grab prime land and peoples in two destroyed nations.
The US may want all this (and more, Project for a New American Century and all that), but the question is whether they can materially pull it off. When you realize they’ve spent the last 50 years outsourcing all production, increasingly putting finance capital in charge, you can really see the scale of the problem, quantitatively and qualitatively.
Does that mean it’s impossible? Or that the evil empire will go down without a fight? Of course not. But socialism is proving that it is more productive than capitalism, while capitalism continues to produce its own grave diggers.