• xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    16 days ago

    It’s part and parcel of the US strategic ambition to destroy the European economy and to absorb its talent/labor force. Which, I remind you, is exactly what the US has been doing to the post-Soviet states and the Global South over the past century - only this time it’s the white Europeans who will become the victims of the US imperialism.

    As the fascistization of Europe ramps up and the economy continues to deteriorate, more and more people - especially educated youth who become disillusioned with their country’s future - will be looking for ways out.

    Where do you think they will end up emigrating to? The most attractive place is the United States, with a strong currency and living standards on par with Western European standards, not to mention their affinity to American cultural exports.

    This is what the Republicans don’t understand. You cannot construct a white supremacist state in the US by keeping yourself isolated from the rest of the world. The US has always relied on immigration and will always remain so. As foreign talents (especially Chinese) are increasingly purged, this gap in the labor force will need to be replaced by someone else. And who else to replace them with than white European immigrants fleeing a destabilized Europe succumbing to war, poverty and fascism?

    The Democrats understand this principle well and that’s why they are building the Fourth Reich by importing European immigrants to replace the non-white labor force.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      I don't think even Putin realized the war in Ukraine would result in the US staging a silent coup of western Europe. It's obvious now in hindsight Russia's economy would be fine going into the war, despite harsh sanctions by NATO. What isn't obvious is how Europeans would sell themselves out to American energy and food suppliers. This whole thing has been a godsend for American companies running out of people to exploit in the US as its working class never recovered from 2008.

      • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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        16 days ago

        It’s very clear for someone who grew up in a Global South country seeing the US playing exactly this game on Europe right now.

        Imagine a country spending several tens of thousands of dollars if not more to cultivate your youth talent, subsidizing all the cost of education, giving out scholarships for top students to study overseas in prestigious Western universities, only for them to choose to stay in the West so that they can earn a salary with a purchasing power several times over what they could have earned in their home country.

        When Western imperialism destroys the economy of Global South countries, they also get to poach the best and brightest talents from those countries simply because of how much better the living standards and the strength of currency in the West. Many such cases. The same is being done to Europe right now.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          16 days ago

          Oh yeah the US has been doing this for centuries at this point. I'm just surprised the Europeans didn't realize they were getting played, given they invented colonialism. It's a real "leopards for eating people's faces party now eat faces of people who let them out of the cage."