A shortage of infantry troops and supply routes under Russian drone attacks have dealt a blow to Ukrainian forces around the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk.
I think they’re going to pick their battles, and they’re not going to go to open war with the west over Gaza. However, it’s pretty clear that BRICS has been very effective at curtailing western power and influence globally. I don’t see anything the west can do to change these trends.
I mean there are steps before war like not doing business with a genocidal entity. These are real critiques we can and should be making when it comes to foreign policy.
Sure, I’m not disagreeing with your critique. I’m just pointing out that the direction of travel is still overall positive. We don’t live in a perfect world, and socialist countries don’t always act in a principled way. However, the power of the empire is diminishing and the Global Majority finally has a chance for self determination. This should not be understated.
For sure, and I do agree with you that it is important to recognize the failings of the socialist countries.
I find it’s also important to be realistic about what social systems can accomplish. They ultimately create selection pressures within society that encourage people to act in a certain way. In my opinion, the core job of a system is to ensure that there is a positive alignment between individual interest and the interest of community as a whole. However, this isn’t magically going to eliminate negative behaviors such as corruption, and so on. These things are present in every human society, and socialist societies aren’t immune from these problems. What I tend to focus on is the overall direction of travel, and I think that’s where we can be optimistic right now.
All you are saying is correct. My fear is the imperialists are always scheming and inaction leads to huge disasters. We can see that the delay of true promise II and the lack of true promise III emboldened the zionists in Lebanon and Syria. They are always up to some diabolical shit. As we speak the zionists, Turks, wahhabis, and obviously US/ UK are training separatists looking to carve out a chunk of China.
Mao was correct to intervene in Korea, even though the nation had just been born and was probably the weakest then. The imperialists have to be taken seriously and I hope you are correct. I am just some dude with no power and frankly not that smart. I do hope those at the helm of power in the antiimperialiat block have their guard up. The imperialists have no morals and no lines they won’t cross. And the world will applaud their terrorism a lot of times, i.e. the pager attack. It’s not that another nation couldn’t do that, it’s that another nation wouldn’t have the immunity afterwards.
They will keep trying for sure, but notice what’s happening in imperialist countries domestically. The political system is becoming increasingly unstable, and it’s only gonna keep getting worse because underlying contradictions aren’t being addressed. Trying to double down on more imperialism will only destabilize the imperial core further. The whole thing is fundamentally unsustainable. They can do a lot of harm in the near term to be sure, but there’s no future for them.
I think they’re going to pick their battles, and they’re not going to go to open war with the west over Gaza. However, it’s pretty clear that BRICS has been very effective at curtailing western power and influence globally. I don’t see anything the west can do to change these trends.
I mean there are steps before war like not doing business with a genocidal entity. These are real critiques we can and should be making when it comes to foreign policy.
Sure, I’m not disagreeing with your critique. I’m just pointing out that the direction of travel is still overall positive. We don’t live in a perfect world, and socialist countries don’t always act in a principled way. However, the power of the empire is diminishing and the Global Majority finally has a chance for self determination. This should not be understated.
Valid points. And this is a discussion amongst comrades, no animosity here :)
For sure, and I do agree with you that it is important to recognize the failings of the socialist countries.
I find it’s also important to be realistic about what social systems can accomplish. They ultimately create selection pressures within society that encourage people to act in a certain way. In my opinion, the core job of a system is to ensure that there is a positive alignment between individual interest and the interest of community as a whole. However, this isn’t magically going to eliminate negative behaviors such as corruption, and so on. These things are present in every human society, and socialist societies aren’t immune from these problems. What I tend to focus on is the overall direction of travel, and I think that’s where we can be optimistic right now.
All you are saying is correct. My fear is the imperialists are always scheming and inaction leads to huge disasters. We can see that the delay of true promise II and the lack of true promise III emboldened the zionists in Lebanon and Syria. They are always up to some diabolical shit. As we speak the zionists, Turks, wahhabis, and obviously US/ UK are training separatists looking to carve out a chunk of China.
Mao was correct to intervene in Korea, even though the nation had just been born and was probably the weakest then. The imperialists have to be taken seriously and I hope you are correct. I am just some dude with no power and frankly not that smart. I do hope those at the helm of power in the antiimperialiat block have their guard up. The imperialists have no morals and no lines they won’t cross. And the world will applaud their terrorism a lot of times, i.e. the pager attack. It’s not that another nation couldn’t do that, it’s that another nation wouldn’t have the immunity afterwards.
They will keep trying for sure, but notice what’s happening in imperialist countries domestically. The political system is becoming increasingly unstable, and it’s only gonna keep getting worse because underlying contradictions aren’t being addressed. Trying to double down on more imperialism will only destabilize the imperial core further. The whole thing is fundamentally unsustainable. They can do a lot of harm in the near term to be sure, but there’s no future for them.
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