Yeah so the reason Trump is allying with Russia isn’t because he’s Putin’s dog. Allying with Russia is a purely geostrategic decision meant to undermine BRICS which is the primary economic organization weakening American hegemony. The blue side of the American ruling class first aligned with the European bloc which sought to destroy or at least severely weaken Russia through the Ukraine war and economic sanctions partly because of the threat Russia could be militarily but mainly because of the threat to western global economic institutions like the IMF and World Bank that BRICS poses. Russian economic presence in Africa and West Asia is a direct threat to the imperial core’s ability to extract wealth from those regions. They do not wish to have competition, their economies can’t honestly survive that competition long term. This route is very obviously failing. Russia still exists, it is still economically strong, weakened a bit yeah but not unrecoverable. Europe isn’t though, Europe is pushing austerity on its people to fund a military build up.
The red side of the American ruling class recognizes this failure and is taking a different route. It seeks to make an ally of Russia in order to isolate China and, ideally, create a new economic bloc with Russia to exploit the imperial periphery and make a semi-periphery of Europe.
Personally I do not believe this route will work either but I do believe it is what they are hoping for. Entire nations do not decide their broad geopolitical decisions based on personal relationship.
Yeah it’s nutjob conspiracy theories mixed with what seems like russian propaganda I don’t know.
Trying to form patterns among the chaos is just what a human brain does but still…
Russia still exists, it is still economically strong, weakened a bit yeah but not unrecoverable. Europe isn’t though,
Doubt. If Russia’s GDP is around the same as Italy’s, and is 20% of the total GDP of France, Germany and UK put together, I don’t see how that can be spun as “stronger than Europe”. It’s not even stronger than individual countries in Europe!
I didn’t mean to imply that it is economicallt stronger than Europe as a hole. My goal was to present Russia as a significant growing economy in global competition to Europe through it’s connections independent of european control. Russia has vast material resources on its own and is allying with anti-european economic independence globally. Subjugating or destroying the Russian economy would be a significant blow to this movement.
I do not mean to imply that Russia’s support for anti-imperialist movements in Africa and West Asia are entirely benevolent but it is a threat to Western imperialist economic systems.
Even in a dictatorship this is not the case. Kings would be killed by their nobles if they did not defend their interests. A dictator does not just get to do whatever they want, they have to meet the needs of their political base which they absolutely have. Often that political base is a military or cohort of oligarchs. They are not independent of these forces.
Yeah so the reason Trump is allying with Russia isn’t because he’s Putin’s dog. Allying with Russia is a purely geostrategic decision meant to undermine BRICS which is the primary economic organization weakening American hegemony. The blue side of the American ruling class first aligned with the European bloc which sought to destroy or at least severely weaken Russia through the Ukraine war and economic sanctions partly because of the threat Russia could be militarily but mainly because of the threat to western global economic institutions like the IMF and World Bank that BRICS poses. Russian economic presence in Africa and West Asia is a direct threat to the imperial core’s ability to extract wealth from those regions. They do not wish to have competition, their economies can’t honestly survive that competition long term. This route is very obviously failing. Russia still exists, it is still economically strong, weakened a bit yeah but not unrecoverable. Europe isn’t though, Europe is pushing austerity on its people to fund a military build up.
The red side of the American ruling class recognizes this failure and is taking a different route. It seeks to make an ally of Russia in order to isolate China and, ideally, create a new economic bloc with Russia to exploit the imperial periphery and make a semi-periphery of Europe.
Personally I do not believe this route will work either but I do believe it is what they are hoping for. Entire nations do not decide their broad geopolitical decisions based on personal relationship.
Leave it to the tankie to sanewash (although there is nothing sane about their rant) Trump.
Absolute moronic tankie take, but completely expectable.
Yeah it’s nutjob conspiracy theories mixed with what seems like russian propaganda I don’t know. Trying to form patterns among the chaos is just what a human brain does but still…
Doubt. If Russia’s GDP is around the same as Italy’s, and is 20% of the total GDP of France, Germany and UK put together, I don’t see how that can be spun as “stronger than Europe”. It’s not even stronger than individual countries in Europe!
I didn’t mean to imply that it is economicallt stronger than Europe as a hole. My goal was to present Russia as a significant growing economy in global competition to Europe through it’s connections independent of european control. Russia has vast material resources on its own and is allying with anti-european economic independence globally. Subjugating or destroying the Russian economy would be a significant blow to this movement.
I do not mean to imply that Russia’s support for anti-imperialist movements in Africa and West Asia are entirely benevolent but it is a threat to Western imperialist economic systems.
I see you’ve never heard of a dictatorship have you?
Even in a dictatorship this is not the case. Kings would be killed by their nobles if they did not defend their interests. A dictator does not just get to do whatever they want, they have to meet the needs of their political base which they absolutely have. Often that political base is a military or cohort of oligarchs. They are not independent of these forces.
Yeah sure. I’m sure the people of North Korea are soo happy.