Quote (thundercock @ Oct 9 2022 07:20pm)
Please. If things get bad where we are, we'll just come to where you are and take it. That's OUR history and YOUR history is being our bitch. :)
I'm a white guy who lives in Canada for the time being, but you're right. The empire will, as it always does, turn inwards. There's a name for this process happening, it's called "fascism". Of course, we had to make up a whole new term for colonialism when it's done to white people. The Germans experimented with and practiced the Holocaust in Africa, and 40 years later they brought it home to carry out on their own people.
But lets imagine I'm some schmuck who lives in Thailand or Angola or something. Overt colonialism doesn't, I think, work anymore. It was supplanted by a somewhat more sophisticated system of financialized extraction, which requires less in the way of brute kinetic force (though still some) and a much larger amount of ideological capture. I think we're seeing both of those things greatly wither.
Can the West, America mostly, actually dominate a country for the purposes of capital extraction, anymore? We know that they can destroy a country, and there's some limited examples of success when we see convoys of stolen Syrian oil being shipped into occupied Iraq and sent back home to replenish the SPR. But why does the SPR need replenishing in the first place? Biden isn't the first to draw it down, that happened under GWB even while he was leading America to brutalize Iraq.
The wheels are coming off, the West is being forced to have to do the unthinkable: compete on an equal playing field. One need only look at how many STEM grads China produces to see how absurd the prospect of 'winning' is, nevermind how many of America's paper graduates are just heading back to China once their studies are complete.
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Oct 9 2022 08:38pm