• @Lurking2Learn@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      I mean… What good bet do they have? Honestly, the event itself (the narrative abandonment of Ukraine by the Western psyop machine and said machine’s pivoting towards Taiwan) is an act of unspeakable cruelty, but it’s a sign of a truly wonderful thing in my eyes: it really IS over for the West. Anything they try, they fail - and they fail harder and faster than they ever did. The pivot towards Taiwan and the formidable enemy that is China tells me they have NO easy fronts to squeeze anymore, NO low hanging fruit to sweep in and pillage. The speed with which Ukraine is dropping off the news cycle makes me feel that the decline of the West is becoming precipitous in speed - the COVID pandemic turned a festering decline into a spiraling freefall for imperialist capitalism.

      • @bleepingblorp@lemmygrad.ml
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        132 years ago

        I hope I get to see the US fall in my lifetime, and I mean truly fall and not just recede into just a smaller version of itself like the “fall” of the British Empire or Spanish Empire. Name change, regime change, land back, socialism, etc.

        • @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlOP
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          82 years ago

          Whether or not the US itself falls, its empire is in irreversible terminal decline. I just hope i get to see China reunified and Palestine liberated. The US breaking apart would just be a bonus.

        • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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          72 years ago

          I can’t help but see the US only falling one way. By taking the rest of the world with it in nuclear fire. The oligarchy will use the scorched Earth as hostage to retain their power. These “people” are an evil beyond what normal humans are capable of imagining. They WILL do everything in their power to hold onto it.

          I hope I’m wrong. I hope China is able to Unite enough of the world and outmaneuver these genocidal psychopaths. I don’t see it going any other way.

    • JucheBot1988
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      22 years ago

      Or like me losing a game of RISK as a kid. “Hmmm, running out of options… maybe if I just shift a bunch of pieces here it’s gonna do some good.”