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Incidentally, I’ve been saying that Russia would annex the productive eastern regions, leaving a rump state in western Ukraine that Europe would be forced to prop up with billions, or face a massive refugee crisis from the very start. The mainstream press has finally caught up. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/480378/348104
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Yogstradamus at it again
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Even now Europe could enact a “Marshall plan 2.0” for West Ukraine but this is from an idealist perspective not a materialist one - the original one was to stave off domestic socialist revolutions and explicitly stated to stop the spread of communism in West Europe from the perceived socialist threat of the USSR, no equivalent pressure exists at present - the PCR having learned the mistakes from the USSR of overleaveraging socialism abroad have taken a more nuanced foreign policy with an eye on long term win of international socialism.
Furthermore the vassalisation of Europe was only in the early stages during the Marshall plan, and NATO was still in its infancy as a vehicle for the USAmerican military indsutrial complex outside the US at that time. Now there appears not even the pretence of sovereignity at times with European leaders.
And Europe’s domestic productive capacity and imperialist leverage abroad have both been gutted increasing the tendancy of the above vassalisation and subordination to deepen while they cling on to their idealist-“garden” against the foreign materialist-“jungle”.
Your essays as usual are on point. Well done and well written!
I love called its from like a month or 2 in advance but
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takes the fucking cake bravo homey
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If Ukraines war led to this then what was the point of that war?
My cynical take on the whole thing is that the US is conducing a scorched earth strategy in Europe. They realize that economic gravity naturally pulls Europe towards the east now, and that would necessarily translate into a geopolitical realignment away from the US. Better burn the whole thing down so nobody gets it. Why Europeans are going along with that is the real question.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-us-pivot-to-asia-and-europes
I everytime I tried to communicate this to others they coped with something along the line of “oh the us would want a prosperous EU that is able to defend itself on its own” - no they only need the physical access to the continent for their military bases, a bunch of divided squabbling nationalist dictatorships which can be played against others, are hostile to each other due to nationalistic landgrabs and jocky for us money & weapons to be the biggest kid on the playground is a far more acceptable solution. A united prosperous EU with an united army is just as much of a threat to washington as russia is.
Exactly, once the EU is broken up then the US can approach individual countries from the position of absolute power. And it’s basically going to engage in the exact same type of colonialism that the west has been doing in the rest of the world.
Jup and with the end of the soviet union, the need of a united wealthy europe became obsolete. Nationalists are not a threat to the usa, because they are much more easily set on their neighbors and bought off with promises of “great national rejuvenation”.
I think the US has been successful in that regard
Oh yeah, I think Europe is going to be by far the biggest loser when the dust settles. A follow up to that one incidentally.
I don’t know how you keep track of all these wild policies and developments, but I’m glad you do and avail us of thoughtful analyses like these!
GOATed analysis. Subscribed! Looking forward to reading more stuff by you
Thanks, and good timing, i just dropped a new article.
yup
Sarcasm? I’ll use this to just apeak some thoughts:
To reduce the population of ukraine, redirect tax money to the rich, keep ukraine from being neutral or god forbid side with russia once the empire collapses, prepare for war with russia. Many reasons. None of them had to do with the normal people living in ukraine.
The answer would have been to back down, invite a delegation from russia and europe and have them discuss this, staying neutral, booting the putschists from power and holding elections with international observation.
It was a reference to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93w7MpbZRw but regardless theres no way the eu came out of this whole thing not looking like a joke and in an even more precarious position
I didnt know that one but it was pretty cool to watch.
Oh weird, Duckplayer worked for that, not for the internet weed video.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
If EU didn’t want a black hole on their border maybe they should have held up their end of the minsk agreements.
Look a war with Russia was supposed to be a quick in and out adventure, 20 minutes tops. Nobody could’ve possibly predicted that Russia wouldn’t just crumble like a house of cards when the west decided to blow really hard.
Or that it would make china stronger well done Europe
They thought they could make it a black hole for Russia. Russia played the Uno Reverse Card.
They didn’t underestimate Russia, they VASTLY underestimated the Soviet Union. Russia is an industrial powerhouse because it inherited Soviet Union’s legacy.
Europe failed to account for the fact that since their first defeat of Tsarist Russia, a socialist revolution happened that turned the country into a powerhouse that was on the path to surpassing the US. Even though it fell, a lot of its industries, workforce due to policy, and educational institutions remained and were inherited (even if they’re slowly being devoured by capitalism). Russia was never going to go down easy.
All this without factoring in China which is now the leading global super power in everything but military bases around the world
Tsarist Russia, despite its later economical backwardness, was also a power in its own right. Germany fought WW1 because it feared Russia surpassing it, just as UK fought WW1 because the very same year germany’s economy surpassed the british one (not including the dominions)
