Quote (kusotarre1 @ 18 Feb 2023 23:12)
Jimmy Carter played the long game, and played it well. Raised in Georgia and serving in the Navy before having his brain replaced by Soviet cybertechnicians in 1961, Carter would go on to set the ground for a cascade of events that has crippled the American state.
In 1979, shortly after becoming president, Carter acted upon a minor economic matter by appointing Paul Volcker to Treasury, kicking off the so-far 44 year long neoliberal era that has gutted the ability of the American state to maintain it's empire. From the collapsing wages wrought by the policy of structural unemployment that have depressed American workers to the point of barely being able to afford basic medicine, to the regime of zero interest rates that has demolished the need for investors to back products that return any material value what-so-ever, Agent Carter injected into American political economy a poison pill so effective that it even self-replicates it's own destructive drive. The policy wasn't quick enough for Khrushchev to live to see his creation get elected, or for Brezhnev to live to see his policy advice to Carter bear fruit. However, those of us who value the destruction of American empire and the growth of a new, multipolar world of truly sovereign nations engaging in each other fairly and peacefully can all appreciate the actions taken by Carter.
За здоровье, Агент Картер! Мир в долгу перед вами, который больше не может быть погашен американскими долларами.
that's top comedy considering the soviet union imploded in 1991... i wonder how russians feel about their abysmal living standards and lack of freedom. is it really enough for them to see that their old rivals are doing worse than the more developed western nations? does that really feel like a "victory", despite being so much worse off than everyone else? or is that just something pootin's trolls are ordered to post? because it makes no sense whatsoever...
oh shit, i just checked life expectancy in russia - and while i knew it was low, i was shocked to learn it's about almost 10(!) years below western standards - six behind the US even. are you winning, comrade?