• eldaviEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    i had the same thought when i saw the chinese limit gallium and other mineral exports.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      15·
      2 days ago

      that was a direct response to US exports, China telling the US that two can play this game and what China produces is more essential

      • eldaviEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        yes, but temporarily so as evidenced by americans actions in south america and africa.

        we have a history of making people like leopold blush in our drive towards resource extraction in the global south and the people in peru, ecuador & the congo are about the experience the most modern, painful, and quick version of it because of this.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
          17·
          2 days ago

          That’s also becoming more difficult now due to economic alternatives that BRICS provides. The common approach US takes is to use sanctions as a form of siege warfare first, then try to do some form of regime change on that basis. However, if countries are able to trade outside the US system that whole scheme falls apart. This is the major reason for the whole Pink tide in Latin America now. A lot of the countries are able to break away from the US because they can lean on China economically.

          • eldaviEnglish
            6·
            2 days ago

            yes and i bet that’s why my gov’t is responding w the military in peru and i expect that they will do the same w mexico; it’ll be an military iron fisted death grip intended to destroy any attempts at creating an economy through any alternatives like english did to irish. the canadians tried to do something similar to their first nations; but public sentiment changed enough to force them to reverse course and something like this is latin america’s only hope no matter how rich or powerful china gets.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
              11·
              2 days ago

              Thing is that the US is not all powerful. There are already severe economic problems, and engaging in military action all over the world will only make things worse. And that will translate into further domestic unrest in the US.

              • eldaviEnglish
                4·
                2 days ago

                yes and i suspect that it’s only a matter of time and i’m pessimistic atm because that scale of that time is in centuries like it was for the irish and canada’s first nations.

                the unrest will pervade the americas for a very long time given the nature of the natural boundaries and trade traffic through this side of the planet; only periodically quelled by the american military like the ancient egyptians did with their own military and people in the centuries immediately after the bronze age collapse.

                the nations the furthest from this declined empire’s imperial core will be the first to shake off the grip and it will cascade; but i suspect that the countries nearest it (both geographically and economically) will be stuck the longest, if not permanently through induced culture change or war.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
                  11·
                  2 days ago

                  There’s a Lenin quote that says that there are decades when nothing happens and then there are weeks when decades happen. These things aren’t linear. The contradictions can build for a long time, and it can look like the system is stable and even inevitable, then the collapse comes seemingly all at once. The US is very much in the stages of the empire where things are starting to unravel now, and I think we are absolutely entering the weeks when decades happen stages.

                  There’s actually surprisingly decent analysis from capitalist perspective on this by Ray Dalio in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. He identifies a lot of the trends that the US empire in its current state shares with past empires when they started entering a period of collapse.