• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    It’s absolutely not overblown copium. Huge amounts of trade are already happening outside the dollar, and China can obviously see they’re the next target so they’re redirecting their trade away from the west now as well. This should help you put things in perspective https://youtu.be/RQ3YjZAzqxA

    The west has an over inflated view of itself. It’s entirely possible that the managers of the empire still don’t realize the amount of trouble they’re in as well. Once again, you keep trying to treat US as a rational actor here which it demonstrably is not. There is vague realization that things are turning in China’s favor, but there’s still plenty of chauvnism to go around.

    Also, I highly doubt that the oligarchs running the US really want to spend the rest of their days in a nuclear bunker. They’d much rather rule over a diminished empire.

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      It’s absolutely not overblown copium. Huge amounts of trade are already happening outside the dollar, and China can obviously see they’re the next target so they’re redirecting their trade away from the west now as well. This should help you put things in perspective https://youtu.be/RQ3YjZAzqxA

      The video you’re offering as proof is simply pointing out that US/global north goods are too expensive for markets in the global South so goods provided by China are growing at a rapid rate in comparison. That doesn’t actually mean what you’re saying. If BYD ships 30x cars to Vietnam but BMW has a 30x price and a higher consumer desire your point is moot.

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        The video is showing that the Global South has a massive population advantage over the G7, and that vast majority of the economic growth is going to be happening outside the west going forward. That fact that your main take away was that western goods are too expensive for the Global South is frankly hilarious.

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          that vast majority of the economic growth is going to be happening outside the west going forward

          Yeah and? This is literally true at any point in the last 200 years, because there’s literally more room to grow than in the West. The entire point of neocolonialism as a project is for the West to lease the global South’s future and growth to itself.

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            And the west is now deindustrialized, and it’s now entering a bloc conflict with the countries where vast majority of commodities are produces and most of the global manufacturing happens. The entire point of neocolonialism is to extract labor and resources from the countries that are colonized. Those days are now rapidly coming to an end. The empire is crumbling in real time.

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              The entire point of neocolonialism is to extract labor and resources from the countries that are colonized

              Okay lets start simple and define colonization for me.

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                Colonialism is a tool of capitalist expansion and exploitation, driven by the pursuit of profit and the need to maintain the capitalist system. It results in the domination and underdevelopment of colonized territories, while reinforcing the power and wealth of the colonizers. It is an inherent feature of capitalism, driven by the need for expansion and accumulation of capital, involving the political and economic domination of a nation by a foreign power, leading to the exploitation of resources and labor in the colonized region.

                Colonies provide a source of cheap raw materials and labor, as well as new markets for the colonizer’s manufactured goods. Crucially, colonialism reinforces global inequalities and uneven development. The colonizers extract wealth from the colonies, hindering their economic growth and development, while the the population of the colonizing countries benefits from the plunder.

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                  16 minutes ago

                  Okay so what’s neocolonialism then?