• Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      There was a certain exhilaration in 2022 when Russia defied NATO directly for the first time since the Cold War and a multipolar world became a popular talking point. The entire world outside of “the garden” was talking about it, joining in seeming solidarity and the imperialists were retreating on every front.

      Nowadays that’s gone for me as it turned out that basically only Russia, Palestine and Yemen were serious about it. China chickened out and continued their business with US and Israel. Brazil blocked Venezuela from BRICS and tried to join in on the regime change operations against Maduro. Assad’s regime crumbled and the axis of resistance broke. Iran chickened out and holed up in their mountains.

      There was an opportunity but people balked. They didn’t take the shot. Now we’re back in the shit of slow imperial decline when it could have been ripped off in one swoop. Israel could have been destroyed, the Middle East united and NATO broken apart. Now we won’t get that because all of our allies sat on their hands

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        Now we’re back in the shit of slow imperial decline when it could have been ripped off in one swoop.

        Even if the global south launched then won WW3 with an overwhelming victory, it would not eliminate imperialism, since that is the necessary result of monopoly capitalism and uneven development in the world. The “slow” method is the only way to eliminate the material basis of imperialism.

        Now we won’t get that because all of our allies sat on their hands

        This is quite an odd way of thinking about things, since there is a lot more to geopolitics than enthusiastically triggering WW3 at the first opportunity.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    If that’s the way it’s gotta be, I’m not I’m really any position to complain.

    “I shoulda seen this comin’, can’t be top gun forever”