Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/G9Hda

the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think tank

Understatement of the day, though the day is still young.

The chances of an atomic catastrophe are low but they aren’t zero

Have these folks not checked the clock lately?

I came to realise a difference between myself and the rest of the people staffing the racket – the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, the economists in the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and so on. […] While I was coming to understand how the racket really worked, I started to see them as willing dupes.

Huh… Me 59 minutes ago:

For example, there are many useful ignoramuses at USAID.

My first instinct was ⌘F Brzezinski, but nothing.

Insomuch as it would be removed from the imperial core, I suppose that’s true. I wouldn’t attempt to predict how the indigenous peoples might fare, but one might investigate how indigenous northeast Siberians are faring.

I see, you’re here to

Yes, the UK should give back the last of its colonies. The Turkey one is ridiculous on its face. I don’t think you understand imperialism / colonialism.

It’d be like asking the US to give back Alaska.

You’re getting warmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Back

Imperialist punks fuck off

From Europe, specifically Spain.

• Ceuta
• Mililla

Yeah they’re in what Michael Hudson calls a quandry, meaning that it has no solution from within the system.

Besides technological superiority, the other 4 key aspects of power when it comes to geopolitics are: military, economic, political and cultural. Let’s have a quick look at each of these for the EU.

And energy, technologically but also in terms of having significant amounts of indigenous carbon energy to bridge the gap from today to carbon neutrality. They’re moving industrial capacity to the US and elsewhere right now because the US cut off their cheap supply. Europe is the real loser in this war so far.

Europe is also royally fucked by the neoliberalism that was baked into the Eurozone from the start, where countries are not (normally) allowed to debt-spend over 3%. The Eurozone is run by the cartel of private banks, so I don’t see how Europeans are going to shake finance capitalism out of the system. I think a given country can only save itself by Eurexiting the Zone and repatriating monetary sovereignty.

France made a joint statement with China about the genocide this week, which I thought was notable. Maybe instead of seeking staunch European independence, some or all of the countries can pursue belts and roads with China to replace Uncle Sam.

Edit to add:

Europe also seems to be losing its imperial holdings, and AFAICT it seems likely to continue. Over time the US is likely to more & more see European countries not as junior partners in imperialism but as just more peripheral states to be plundered (though the US seems likely to continue shedding Global South holdings over time as well). Eventually European countries may find themselves better served by joining the Global South in partnership rather than subjugation, like Russia after their overtures were rebuffed by NATO. Who knows how long it will take and how much suffering Europeans will endure before they can swallow their chauvinism and do the needful.

Looks like OP created @theHRguy@lemmy.world three days ago and is already catching removals & bans on .world: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=7375074

its just as bad as reactionary fascism. but go ahead an ban me since that really what its all about

I can understand why you may feel under attack, but I think that’s a bit hyperbolic, presumptuous, and self-sabotaging. I’m not a Lemmygrad (or Hexbear) admin, and each fediverse instance (and community) has its own rules & norms. As a new Hexbear user, you were warned several times before getting banned, though as a new user you may not have been aware of the modlog. New accounts tend to get policed aggressively in order to nip new spam & troll accounts in the bud.

@marxistgod@lemmygrad.ml, I don’t know what kind of reception you’ll get if you use this account just for posting your personal blog like you did with thehomelessromantic@hexbear.net & @Billybragg@lemmy.ml.

One option available to you is to create your own community and post them there. There’s a setting for “Only moderators can post to this community,” which makes it so only you can post while others can comment. Lemmygrad’s federation reach is relatively small, though, so you may want to consider lemmy.ml instead, andI if you want to do that, I can unban your lemmy.ml account.

Yeah it’s interesting. Notably it seems to consciously exclude the private ivy league schools and the private STEM/military-industrial complex schools like MIT & Stanford.

I finally took a moment to decipher what The Conversation is. It’s a place for American (and occasionally other Global North) academics to publish articles. It’s funded by public & private universities and a variety of oligarch endowments.

Make America Great Again: Raise Europe’s energy costs and lower the US’s labor costs.

Mr. President, we must not allow a Star Wars gap!

I think the other station mentioned, to which China has a ~33% stake, is Hinkley Point C, which is not completed, either.