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  • I’m not arguing that they’re doing a good job, but I do think that’s the intention. The Ukraine adventure was supposed to miraculously either cause regime change in Russia or collapse it entirely to further loot the Soviet Union’s corpse and split Russia away from China, and instead it’s basically demilitarized NATO and started deindustrializing Europe. This latest attack on Iran was clearly supposed to be a “kick in the door and the whole rotting structure comes down” thing and in classic fascist hubris it’s blowing up in their face. So while I think the imperialists have vague ideas of a plan to ultimately confront China, they’re doing it in possibly the most farcical way possible because we’re like three generations of failsons deep at this point.



  • Not explicitly news related but I hope this is okay since I think a lot of fellow newsheads would like to know that Geopolitical Economy Hour apparently moved to Radhika Desai’s own channel: https://youtube.com/@raddesai. I wondered why they seemingly stopped making episodes on Multipolarista Geopolitical Economy Report. The latest episode talks a bit about whether we’re experiencing World War 3 or if this is “merely” the deaththroes of imperialism. Even though the super powers aren’t in direct conflict with each other (even though they kind of are when NATO troops are basically doing everything but pulling the trigger on Western missiles firing into Russia), the current conflicts are clearly about attempting to encircle China before a direct confrontation, especially cutting off their oil imports and disrupting peaceful development of the BRI. It’s hard to imagine what else to call a conflict clearly intended to seize control of Eurasia, and in my opinion Ukraine and West Asia are just fronts in the same conflict. There was an article from the late 90’s or early 2000’s by Subcommandant Marcos that someone posted here somewhere that argued a similar case about the First Cold War. Curious what others think or if it’s a distinction without a difference. There’s also the question Desai raises about every world war changing the world financial system, and whether the bear trap the US walked face first into with Iran making the energy markets scream has laid the conditions for that shift to begin.