Funnily enough most of these neolibs used to use the saying ‘no two countries with a Mcdonalds have gone to war’ as their justification for why capitalist globalization is/was important to establish, but Ukraine and Russia demonstrated that was false years ago. now sir kid starver is going to blame it on Trump
The McDonalds thing was never close to true. There had been a number of inter-McDonald country wars before it was claimed in 1999, and many more since then.
They still use the saying but it’s replaced with “democracies” so they can define wars out of existence by declaring one of the countries wasn’t a “democracy”
Basically, we’ve hit the limits for being able to raise the living conditions for those living in the metropolitan powers of the colonial era, and we can no longer pretend that globalization will allow us to endlessly expand our consumption and raise quality of life with no negative consequences. At least, no negative consequences as long as we collectively ignore the fact that we’ve just outsourced the worst consequences of pursuing these policies to poorer countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. As long as the sweatshops, wars over resources, crushing poverty and widespread suffering due to famine, droughts and war happened elsewhere, to other people that only get a short paragraph about their suffering from the consequences of Western economic policies, rather than having to write the “Oh, it’s so sad how they’re suffering horribly because of what we continue to do,” articles about people living in the UK, rather than in Sudan or something, they could count on a majority of people to bury their heads in the sand and act as though everything was going swimmingly.
Now that we’re hitting the reality of those consequences coming home to impact us first-hand, the jig is up and we have to break out some new type of smoke and mirrors to try and keep the populace from seeing through the lies and realizing the whole system is a worm-eaten husk that needs to be torn down before it comes down on our heads.
What does he even mean by Globalization failed?
What was the goal?
And what was the failure point? Trump saying so?
Funnily enough most of these neolibs used to use the saying ‘no two countries with a Mcdonalds have gone to war’ as their justification for why capitalist globalization is/was important to establish, but Ukraine and Russia demonstrated that was false years ago. now sir kid starver is going to blame it on Trump
The McDonalds thing was never close to true. There had been a number of inter-McDonald country wars before it was claimed in 1999, and many more since then.
They still use the saying but it’s replaced with “democracies” so they can define wars out of existence by declaring one of the countries wasn’t a “democracy”
It wasn’t even true at the time it was said, Guatemala (I think) has been invaded by the US a few years before
Panama
It’s only a war if Bad Country does it. When
or 
does it, it’s just a “policing action” or “limited military intervention” and doesn’t count. 
Basically, we’ve hit the limits for being able to raise the living conditions for those living in the metropolitan powers of the colonial era, and we can no longer pretend that globalization will allow us to endlessly expand our consumption and raise quality of life with no negative consequences. At least, no negative consequences as long as we collectively ignore the fact that we’ve just outsourced the worst consequences of pursuing these policies to poorer countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. As long as the sweatshops, wars over resources, crushing poverty and widespread suffering due to famine, droughts and war happened elsewhere, to other people that only get a short paragraph about their suffering from the consequences of Western economic policies, rather than having to write the “Oh, it’s so sad how they’re suffering horribly because of what we continue to do,” articles about people living in the UK, rather than in Sudan or something, they could count on a majority of people to bury their heads in the sand and act as though everything was going swimmingly.
Now that we’re hitting the reality of those consequences coming home to impact us first-hand, the jig is up and we have to break out some new type of smoke and mirrors to try and keep the populace from seeing through the lies and realizing the whole system is a worm-eaten husk that needs to be torn down before it comes down on our heads.
But it’s Starmer. He’s a Tory at heart.
You may be right, but I think he means different still.