Smitty-48 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 08, 2022 1:21 pm
but if the Pax Americana has in fact fallen
that is America is the sole guarantor of global security
which I think it has at this point
then that is where we are back to
to before the Second World War
back to the 1930's
except with about 12,000 hydrogen bombs in play, 3,000 on hair trigger alert
1939 meets 1983
I guess the point I am trying to make here is this.. what if this literally is the Pax Americana? What if it came true, and the calculus for Russia is pretty simple: fuck off into oblivion or escalate this into an eventual nuclear confrontation?
They are completely fucked here. There is no easy way back from this except mass militarization and eventual war. But I could well see these bankers and corporatists already being several steps ahead of them here. This isn't the 1930s. We all know how that trick works now.
The problem with Pax Americana is this: what the fuck is America? It's just a glove that is used to control various power structures, including vast military and intelligence apparatuses. But who's hands are in the glove at any given time depends on money, power, gamesmanship, etc. I would point out that Russia is most of all fucked right now because a small group of global capitalists and bankers decided to wage an economic war against them and now the Russian people are going to be devastated in a way that the post-WW1 German people once were. And this wasn't the Russian people's fault.
The Russians are fucking outrageous right now, but I think every person on this Earth should be concerned with how glibly and smoothly those weasels just destroyed the Russian economy. The media writes about this as if "the West" did it, or "western powers" did it. That's not what happened. Corporations colluded to it. Banks and corporations did it. They can do that to us too.
On a deeper level, it almost looks like a coup against the nation state going on. But, really, I don't know for sure. So much of what we read is bullshit, and so much of what is happening is kept secret.
But I would point out that we have seen corporate power quickly taking over government power during this pandemic everywhere, and what we just witnessed is not at all outside of that trendline. If the world does not want corporate rule, they had better start discussing what was done to Russia.
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