Obviously Ukraine will be a lot smaller and diffrent looking on map by then. Sad to see Montengro, North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece and Romania on wrong side :(

        • @Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.mlOP
          13•2 years ago

          Yes. Also, what is up with Indians defending Isn’t real and blaming China 24/7 on internet? India is supposed to be based anti-imperialist country, and it is an ally of Russia, but what is up with attacking China and defening ISRAEL?

                  • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
                    7•2 years ago

                    Well, Spain, Italy, and Greece have already been betrayed by the EU. Greece is quite radical and has a strong communist party.

                    Then there’s Eastern Europe, which has also been looted by North East Europe since the 1990s, and most of the people never wanted to abandon the Soviet system. Now, that’s an ageing demographic, but those voters are still around and may still be working.

                    The younger sections of Eastern Europe could be persuaded easily enough to rebel against Western Europe considering their homes have been gentrified and Western Europe has demonised and used them as cheap labour for 30 years.

                    This is only the factions of the working class.

                    There will be factions in the capitalists who are unhappy with doing the bidding of the US empire and who will see war as an opportunity to gain or regain their own empire. That would have it’s own negative consequences, but it would weaken any imperialist alliance.

        • @Munrock@lemmygrad.ml
          7•2 years ago

          I actually think the empire may go out with a whimper (no nukes) because the leadership is so incompetent and they would have such a hard time justifying a kinetic war to the population.

          I think there’s a different reason they won’t use nukes. The empire serves the interests of the capitalists, and capitalists make less money in a nuclear wasteland. Between a nuclear wasteland and a world where they can’t control the superpower, they’ll take the latter. It’s more profitable.

          It’s why China is surviving US hostility where the USSR didn’t. Deng’s “Lay low and develop the productive forces” strategy made SWCC like a virus that bypasses the immune system and gets into the vital organs. They can’t harm China without harming themselves.