Well, at least global south countries are gonna have to choose between them or play both sides at best to survive the foereseeable future, so at least in some instances it does matter.
What will Nigeria choose? Chinese or US exports, loans, cultural influence etc
No country can be fully independent from the world around, so they do have to choose allies and foes.
I’m on mobile (and sleepy) rn, so I don’t think I can properly respond to all your points, but thanks for this comment, I found it overall very constructive!
I’d just like to question one point for now
If 10 people in a group agree to leave 10,000 USD on a table, such that after 20 minutes, they can all split it amongst themselves, and then turn off the lights in the room and plug their ears in the meantime, someone if not multiple people are going to try and take it all for themselves.
Where are these people from? Urban, Rural, which country, which region etc, culture can have a big influence on that, I’d guess more collectivist cultures would have a different approach to this experiment than individualist ones such as you described. The country I live is also individualist so I see your point, but is all of humanity really like that?
A Native American tribe of 10 people would probably coordinate to be able to split the money, or even to invest collectivelly in their own village for example. A group of 10 New York executives with survival of the fittest mentality would probably act like you described.
Just some food for thought, hope you or anyone reading finds this interesting.
More problematic to whom? The US literally changed the political direction of my country and fucked us over real hard.
Where are the chinese wars and regime change operations? At least Russia only attacks its neighbors at most so countries far away have nothing to fear, unlike the US invading and destroying countries all around the globe.
Call them empire or whatever, but being unable to admit that the US is the bigger threat to real freedom in the world only contributes to the causes of the biggest and arguably most brutal empire in history, that is in constant state of war since it was founded.
the ones who prospered were the most aggressive ones, even conquering the whole world by force, it’s a survivorship bias situation.
not every group of humans is aggressive, but those eventually get conquered by the agressive ones, military power always ends up winning.
It’s unscientific to say that any country, given the chance, would do the same as the europeans or the US empire did to the world.
At least the Chinese century will prove or disprove this theory, given it’s the first significant power shift in the last 500 years, let’s see if they will be so brutal as the US and its allies (you know who) are to the world.
I firmly doubt it, there are no signs of brutality to other nations coming from the chinese, at most you could argue of some internal issues. There are no invasions, war or regime change operations done by China yet.
As someone from the global south, I don’t fear China or even Russia in the least, I only fear what the US or Europe will try to inflict in my country, like the recent regime change operations that I lived through, that was pretty harsh.
Thanks for this awesome project!
Like the above user, I’d be very interested in translating this to German and Portuguese :)
Please let me know if you need any help
Nice perspective! Libs are gonna lib and eventually fail, hoping he gets an anarcho punch after doing at least something small to improve the world.
Along with the Anarchists (or direct-action anti-imperialists as I might call them), I also believe in the protracted people’s war of the ML(M)'s, the Revolutionary army, who are for now only slowly moving in the background but will eventually be essential in toppling the world gov (after much internal discussion within the party?)
Additionally, the off system burgeois represented in Cross Guild is also interesting, imagine in our world if there was a bounty for catching state-sponsored war criminals 🤔
Big Mom feels to me like Europe too, plundering the world to get good food, but yeah politically similar to Dems in some ways, modern neoliberal imperialism maybe?
Kaido is also more traditional, classic industrial imperialism
it has powerscale and therefore is officialy anime
I get what you mean, it does feel like that sometimes, but after watching more I’ve realized that Luffy is primarily an Anti-Imperialist, so the Sraw Hats do restore some monarchies, but in the name of expeling a foreign power who took over the country, which I’m all for as an ML, our first fight should always be against imperialism, as I’d argue that even the Taliban government is better than 20 years of imperial war to remove them from power and let them restore it again
Which arc are you referring to? If it’s Skypea yeah, it’s the arc with worst politics IMO, but the others are mostly on point, for example Alabasta is a critique of Bourgeois Revolution (directed by Crocodile), even the name of his organization (Baroque Works) is a reference to this time in (european) history, who at the same time represents an external power meddling in internal politics and Wano is crearly against imperial industrial capitalism depleting a nation’s resources, starving its people and supporting an illegitimate internal power (which took over with foreign help)
Few things to note:
heyy, have you read One Piece?
It’s the leftiest, most anti-imperialist anime/manga I’ve seen to date. Although it has cartoon-like art, the themes are serious and deeply political.
Also most people have issues with it being too long… the problem is quite the opposite the more you read/watch, it’s actually too short for how many well interconnected mysteries, characters and places there actually are, everything is fleshed out.
Also it doesn’t get worse with time like most long series, it gets even better!
Good luck on your Sails if you haven’t checked it out yet!
Oda is a secret propagandist, who got to make the most popular anime in history, truly a madman genius if you ask me
little Elon criticized the Brazilian Supreme Court, said they are “violating the constitution and censoring X”
Interesting point, based on this I could argue that military might (elephant power) is necessary for peace, if not used to coerce others
a country that builds nuclear power to protect itself but has a no first aggression rule could be a parallel to the elephants