The U.S. empire took a gamble on the geopolitical chessboard by provoking Russia into intervening in Ukraine. Now that it’s losing this gamble, having the U.S. and its allies economically suffer worse than Russia is while Russia remains on track to achieve its goals in Ukraine, there are going to be fatal implications for the future of the imperialist superstructure. These implications go beyond a faster transition towards a multipolar world, or a hastened decline of neo-colonialism as the Global South rejects Washington’s Ukraine psyops, or an acceleration of the decay of the exploiter countries. These things mean that the imperial center now has greater potential for having its social stability shattered, for entering into a civil conflict that destroys its capitalist state.
Rainer Shea DOES NOT MISS
He generally has pretty good takes.