• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” - gramsci

    Hope the people of Africa are sufficiently organized to take this opportunity and run away with it, this seriously could turn into a chain reaction.

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        How long do you reckon it will take before we see the west try to (fruitlessly) regain control over Africa again?

        Will we have to wait until the failure of the ME project or will it come with the failure of Ukraine?

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          I think that ship might’ve sailed at this point. The west is going into an economic decline, and Africa is developing rapidly. I don’t think there will ever be such a disparity in power between the west and Africa that would allow the west to recolonize going forward.

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            Personally I think the west is going to try all the same. And it’ll go about as terribly as can be expected, especially with Russia returning to its anti-colonial legacy.

            It can be delayed, and perhaps (depending on circumstance) should be, but IMO the imperialists will not go out without trying to take the world down with them. It’s not in their nature, the nature of their ideologies, institutions, etc.

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              That’s my biggest worry as well, these people are very much starting a nuclear holocaust once they realize their time as the hegemon is over.

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                I don’t think they have seen anything over the event horizon either. They can’t make legitimate strategy that involves nuclear annihilation. The risk comes from the fanatics they are cultivating.

                The solution will be the same thing that will prevent the USA from being successful in large scale invasion, domestic rebellion. There will not be enough soldiers to fight, there are people who will fight the fanatics to stop a launch. It’s tenuous, but it’s what’s going to happen and when you consider the circumstances, it’s the only way it can happen. The empire has to eat itself.

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              especially with Russia returning to its anti-colonial legacy.

              LOL. Russia is the caveman\gangster kind of colonialist power - their MO is somehow presenting themselves as helpful, killing a few unpleasant people in process, then for some time getting cookies for “trust me bro, I’ll help you when it gets bad”, and then selling that bro to another bro, rinse and repeat.

              Also they sometimes directly bully those who give them the middle finger.

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                It’s amazing how you even use a keyboard, with so few working brain cells. Go back to the lib hole you came from.

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                  You mean, get out and get some air in Moscow where I live? I’ve just came from a long walk, so no thanks.

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      Blinken in meetings with African nations pretty much admits that the US is too stretched to focus much on Africa. I remember him saying stuff along those lines when the Tigray stuff in Ethiopia started happening.

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    I feel like the fact that we have troops stationed all over Africa and no one ever mentions it until they leave is concerning.

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        Scary as fuck to most of the planet. The scarier thing is that it’s not just USians who look at you gone out if you question it. That shit runs far and wide. Truly the diarrhea of propaganda.

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    I wouldn’t really use the word “agrees” to be honest. It’s a great thing, undoubtedly, but I think they wouldn’t do this if they weren’t de facto forced to because they’re stretched so unimaginably thin. This country truly is on the brink.