Yep. The US Empire is collapsing because the global south is developing, and pivoting more towards south-south trade and mutual development over naked imperialism. The string of recent hard aggression is trying to install compradors to keep this scheme going for a bit longer, but the industrial base of the empire is hollowed out.
If you don’t live in the US, Russia, China, India or Israel then you live in a vassal state. The global south isn’t developing independently. It’s being segmented between the US and China via soft or hard power (e.g. belt and road initiative). There is no revolution of the disenfranchised. It’s just major powers doing what major powers do as we enter a new geopolitical paradigm.
The global south is developing partially with the assistance of the PRC, yes, but there’s also general south-south trade and alliances, like the Alliance of Sahel States. The PRC isn’t imperialist, it isn’t plundering the global south. BRI has been enourmous for win-win economic development, compared to western enforced austerity and plundering.
Vassals of the empire include western Europe, Israel, Austrailia, etc, imperialist powers that don’t outweigh the US Empire but still benefit from imperialism. The global south aren’t vassals, they are imperialized (but breaking free). The new geopolitical paradigm will be marked by a rise in the global south, having escaped underdevelopment, and the decline in single hegemonic powers like the US.
China’s investments aren’t for anything other than the growth of its hegemonic power through the strategic control of satellite states. The carrot is easier than the stick and has better optics. However China can and will stomp out any geopolitical threat within its area of influence even if it is diametrically opposed to whatever the citizens of said state want. It is a superpowerful police state with global ambitions. The global south isn’t breaking free. It’s selling itself to China.
The Belt and Road Initiative is certainly benefiting China, but it’s a win-win situation. China isn’t planting millitary bases anywhere, and isn’t forcing the global south to sell out their autonomy. It is not a police state, nor does it have global ambitions of hegemony.
What world do YOU live in? Who has been putting dictatorships EVERYWHERE in the global south, who has bombed Yugoslavia, southwest Asia and North Africa, Vietnam? Who has kidnapped the president of Venezuela? Who has been carrying out genocides against indigenous people and terrorizing black and other POC, and now even white liberals?
This one. China has police internally, but is not acting like world police like the US Empire. The PRC also has no grand ambitions of hegemony, but further development for the whole world, which benefits them.
but is not acting like world police like the US Empire
Because it is too weak right now. It’s waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.
That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It’s a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it’s rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it’s capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it’s empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.
Power is a metaphysical force, like a trinket in video games corrupting you, once you take hold of it, it takes hold of you. Changing your mind, forcing you to increase it, to expand power. Many fight it, but so long as you grasp it, it will act upon you. This is why term limits are not just good, they’re necessary to prevent people from going fully mad.
This isn’t accurate at all, though. China is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and the working classes control the state. The vague idea of “power corrupting” is just supernatural superstition, you’re confusing the form, ie an industrialized society, with the essence, ie a capitalist empire vs a rising socialist country. You’re looking only for similarities and ignoring the key differences that prove your narrative highly flawed.
Right, the world moved on and the empire’s failure to adapt is causing it to crumble around the 250 year mark. It’s a rule of thumb, not a curse or a deadline.
Yep. The US Empire is collapsing because the global south is developing, and pivoting more towards south-south trade and mutual development over naked imperialism. The string of recent hard aggression is trying to install compradors to keep this scheme going for a bit longer, but the industrial base of the empire is hollowed out.
What if all of this happened because of a 250 year curse?!? Checkmate commies
Advanced enough dialectics is indistinguishable from a curse and a blessing.
If you don’t live in the US, Russia, China, India or Israel then you live in a vassal state. The global south isn’t developing independently. It’s being segmented between the US and China via soft or hard power (e.g. belt and road initiative). There is no revolution of the disenfranchised. It’s just major powers doing what major powers do as we enter a new geopolitical paradigm.
The global south is developing partially with the assistance of the PRC, yes, but there’s also general south-south trade and alliances, like the Alliance of Sahel States. The PRC isn’t imperialist, it isn’t plundering the global south. BRI has been enourmous for win-win economic development, compared to western enforced austerity and plundering.
Vassals of the empire include western Europe, Israel, Austrailia, etc, imperialist powers that don’t outweigh the US Empire but still benefit from imperialism. The global south aren’t vassals, they are imperialized (but breaking free). The new geopolitical paradigm will be marked by a rise in the global south, having escaped underdevelopment, and the decline in single hegemonic powers like the US.
China’s investments aren’t for anything other than the growth of its hegemonic power through the strategic control of satellite states. The carrot is easier than the stick and has better optics. However China can and will stomp out any geopolitical threat within its area of influence even if it is diametrically opposed to whatever the citizens of said state want. It is a superpowerful police state with global ambitions. The global south isn’t breaking free. It’s selling itself to China.
The Belt and Road Initiative is certainly benefiting China, but it’s a win-win situation. China isn’t planting millitary bases anywhere, and isn’t forcing the global south to sell out their autonomy. It is not a police state, nor does it have global ambitions of hegemony.
Lol okay. What world do you live in?
What world do YOU live in? Who has been putting dictatorships EVERYWHERE in the global south, who has bombed Yugoslavia, southwest Asia and North Africa, Vietnam? Who has kidnapped the president of Venezuela? Who has been carrying out genocides against indigenous people and terrorizing black and other POC, and now even white liberals?
Edit: typo, I’m drunk lol
Clearly drunk. I have no idea who you are arguing against.
This one. China has police internally, but is not acting like world police like the US Empire. The PRC also has no grand ambitions of hegemony, but further development for the whole world, which benefits them.
Because it is too weak right now. It’s waiting for the US to make more mistakes. When the time is right it will take Taiwan and solidify control over the east and south China sea.
That you think China is different from every great power in history is the odd take. Power centralizes and seeks more power. It’s a tale as old as time. China literally modeled it’s rise after the Golden Era of American industrialization from the late nineteenth to early 1920s. America went from a backwater to a serious power in a generation. China did the same thing. It now plans to capitalize on it’s capitalism. (e.g. geopolitical dominance in the East and satellite control on the fringes of it’s empire.) China is a little America in everything but name.
Power is a metaphysical force, like a trinket in video games corrupting you, once you take hold of it, it takes hold of you. Changing your mind, forcing you to increase it, to expand power. Many fight it, but so long as you grasp it, it will act upon you. This is why term limits are not just good, they’re necessary to prevent people from going fully mad.
This isn’t accurate at all, though. China is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned and the working classes control the state. The vague idea of “power corrupting” is just supernatural superstition, you’re confusing the form, ie an industrialized society, with the essence, ie a capitalist empire vs a rising socialist country. You’re looking only for similarities and ignoring the key differences that prove your narrative highly flawed.
Right, the world moved on and the empire’s failure to adapt is causing it to crumble around the 250 year mark. It’s a rule of thumb, not a curse or a deadline.