me too; i fully expected them to fold on decouping with china

i had been wondering why no one was prosecuting the soldiers and i’m glad to see it happening; but i also wonder if the icc will ever bother considering how they’ve been sanctioned over the netanyahu warrant.

The US will likely manage to carve up a sphere of influence for itself, but it’s quite clear that they’re overstretched already.

this part depresses me the most.

in the future: as brics nations work together towards ameliorating the effects of climate change to keep their populations fed, watered & sheltered, thus diminishing their capabilities; the g7 will continue to expand their already dominant financial and military control over the g20 & other vassal states through their access to abundant natural resources in canada, greenland, africa & the caucuses while continuing to further contribute to climate change in the process.

very true, but in what form?

this particular message feels a lot like latin american leftists and artistic people’s identification w their culturally indigenous roots as a means to eschew their western colonial influence and reject western capitalist dominance, but it ignores the reality that the indigeneity that exists today was reconstructed from western colonial sources because the original was so devastated that the few bits and pieces that survived had to be mashed together into this populist revival intended to bring life to an alternative counter culture that’s almost entirely divorced from its original origins.

ghost dance was the last time a populist revival like this was attempted and just like it happened in the last century, it’ll have a relatively brief resurgence and then diminish significantly in the face of the same western civilization that gobbled up its original incarnation, leaving the people who continue to adhere to it so abjectly impoverished and at risk that they’re naturally slowly attritioning into non-existence; especially so in the united states and canada.

i fully expected that the bullworks recently resurrected in places like mexico and uruguay to crumble before western capitalism & skullduggery; as it has happened several times in the last few centuries; and i hope that i’m only being pessimistic about china’s chances to stem this tide, but the fact that the eu; australia; a majority of latin america (that effectively counters brazil, economically); and the key players in africa are dropping their defenses to the trade war makes me think that history will continue to repeat itself.

please tell me i’m wrong and why. brics doesn’t seem to be an answer given how much some of its founding members are odds with each other today and will be more so in a climate changed future; nearly all of the other countries wishing to join today will be likewise greatly diminished in a climate changed future.

watching these people suffer on tiktok and rednote is heartbreaking; i keep doing the gaming algorithms like they ask me to, but it feels like i’m not doing anything like most people.

the 2-dollar-store has a nice ring to it. lol

does it matter after we hit 104% after tomorrow?

it’s crazy that it took a trade war with the world’s hegemon to spur to bolivians into action.

i wish i could buy and use a huawei in the united states; but my redmi taught me that all american carriers ban chinese phones from working in this country.

conditionally pulled; unless a tariff compromise were worked out.

i suspect that trump’s goal for these tariffs is concessions/insider-access

some part of me feels like the barely concealed racism is going to ensure that they go back into the american empire’s arms again once trump leaves office rather than sticking with china.

that makes sense from a hegemonic perspective, but it doesn’t from any practical one.

russia proved that it wasn’t able to dominate ukraine like the propaganda had suggested it could; yet they’re somehow going to dominate europe.

the europeans have literal colonies within their borders in the form of american military bases and the americans have inflicted the same kind of political violence that it inflicted on latin america (and now the americans are turning on them); yet the russians are still the problem, somehow.

this is rich considering that the economist helped manufacture this narrative themselves.

it’s like the chair shooting meme, but in article form.

it’s expected for orban & hungry; it’s odd for france or germany to do the same thing.

i hope trump imposes those sanctions for purchasing russian oil since the most effective outcome of his administration is weakening the american empire’s soft power.

i wish i understood the european obsession with russia; especially the delusion that russia wants to conquer europe when poland and ukraine was the closest they ever got and the europeans (especially the british) have literally conquered territories across the entire globe.

i wonder of eu capitulation to american hegemony in all sectors, like tech described in this video, will result in more accelerated forms of fascism since they now have to come up with an alternative to the financial and military backing from the fascist machine that they helped create and is now abandoning them.

i think that the scariest thing about all of it is that it can only collapse once there’s isn’t enough money in the world to provide the table scraps necessary to keep the pawns inline; meaning that there isn’t enough food, shelter or even drinkable water to keep them towing the line.

the last largest financial crises averted a system wide shutdown and created a welfare state that allowed this system to continue operating and its wealth gap ensures that there will be millions of people who will voluntarily join the military in the hopes of viable future; as is happening right now.

it also feels like the media capture of the colonial narrative is holding strong examplified in tiktok’s ban and ukraine’s invasion. those native american pogroms were documented during their time and the people adjacently impacted, ie the mexicans, were cast aside until the memory of them only existed history books.

i feel that capitalism learns from its mistakes and adjusts since the people who benefit from it are learning, thinking beings who want to perpetuate it for their personal gain; the only thing that can stop it is itself, once it’s inherent contradictions become too large to smooth over.