Best case scenario: China continues to develop into a bastion of socialism and technology, inspiring a resurgence of socialist movements in places like India, Russia, Africa and Latin America. EU collapses, US quietly gets reduced to a regional power.
Worst Case: Nuclear/Climate Apocalypse
Other Worst Case: US and friends continue mastering the art of color revolutions and propaganda, turning the entire world into Redditors. With any real threat of potent socialist pushback completely eradicated, capitalist gain free reign to revert to 19th century style working conditions but with additional digital age control and surveillance. Capitalism itself meanwhile continues to evolve into a neo-feudal digital dictatorship run by banks and tech companies. Benefits get cut as populations age, and jobs continue to get automated away while corporations pocket all the gains. Every country essentially becomes South Korea.
Could the EU orient towards china? The USA is not even trying to hide that they are using the EU as pokers chips, there many people with anti nato and anti eu sentiments
I could see individual countries within the EU reorienting, however I think that the EU itself exists too firmly as neoliberal entity and I believe it’s collapse is necessary for Europe to have any real hope. I think it’s possible for the EU to fracture with the US, but I don’t think that will make the EU itself any less neoliberal or have any more merit then it does now. The US would focus it’s colonist efforts on Asia and Latin America while the EU would focus on Eastern Europe and Africa.
Best case scenario: China continues to develop into a bastion of socialism and technology, inspiring a resurgence of socialist movements in places like India, Russia, Africa and Latin America. EU collapses, US quietly gets reduced to a regional power.
Worst Case: Nuclear/Climate Apocalypse
Other Worst Case: US and friends continue mastering the art of color revolutions and propaganda, turning the entire world into Redditors. With any real threat of potent socialist pushback completely eradicated, capitalist gain free reign to revert to 19th century style working conditions but with additional digital age control and surveillance. Capitalism itself meanwhile continues to evolve into a neo-feudal digital dictatorship run by banks and tech companies. Benefits get cut as populations age, and jobs continue to get automated away while corporations pocket all the gains. Every country essentially becomes South Korea.
Could the EU orient towards china? The USA is not even trying to hide that they are using the EU as pokers chips, there many people with anti nato and anti eu sentiments
I could see individual countries within the EU reorienting, however I think that the EU itself exists too firmly as neoliberal entity and I believe it’s collapse is necessary for Europe to have any real hope. I think it’s possible for the EU to fracture with the US, but I don’t think that will make the EU itself any less neoliberal or have any more merit then it does now. The US would focus it’s colonist efforts on Asia and Latin America while the EU would focus on Eastern Europe and Africa.