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Unsurprisingly, r/Argentina is celebrating

So we went from “Biden defeated Russia without even trying!” to “Ukraine must defend Europe from Russia at all costs” in like 3 hours lol

And the US lectures the world on human rights and admonishes countries for how they treat minority populations

Tying retirement to the stock market is insidious class warfare

The US can’t address its issues without creating further contradictions. I think the biggest success they’ve had is definitely sucking Europe dry, but that’s just kicking the can down the road really. Domestically, conditions continue to decline at an accelerating rate. There is no plan to address this. That’s a major contradiction right there. When the next major crisis happens, who are they gonna steal from? I feel like if they had to turn to other countries in the imperial core for wealth extraction, doesn’t that say a lot about the long-term viability of their economy? How will Europe function as they decline from relative prosperity into a hellhole similar to modern America? Will people take it lying down? People in the global south have also definitely taken notice of the Ukraine war and how weak America actually is at defending its interests militarily. Can the US prevent the decolonization of West Africa and the Middle East forever? Will bigger holes start to form in South America or other parts of the world?

The US has definitely taken notice of the seeds of its destruction i.e. de-dollarization and growing Chinese and Eurasian hegemony and taken some measures to address this. However, the contradictions of neoliberalism and financialization have not changed. There is nothing they can do to change them. The death of the U.S. is a process that will take some time and there will be ebbs and flows. Unfortunately, even 100 years is a relatively short period of time in terms of human development, so we could go our whole lifetime without seeing America destroyed even if we can see its inevitability. Also, economic indicators are essentially religious divinations designed to prop up the system, so unless it’s coming from a Marxist or at least some non-mainstream source they really can’t be taken at face value.

Mali is no longer ruled by western interests so they gotta get the propaganda machine going i guess

Already seeing libs call this a false flag attack. So that stage has been set already if proof comes out that Ukraine was responsible

This is a U.S. politician saying this right? Kinda saying the quiet part out loud regarding the EU being a vassal state

Hot take: I agree

I definitely have a hard time consuming media now that I can see the ideology it subtly yet effectively espouses, especially anti-communism. And now that I am outside that, I see how the labor aristocratic people around me basically center their lives around propagandistic fiction and I can’t help but see it as disgusting. So certain things like that, I don’t think I will ever be able to engage with again and will always call out the politics involved.