The imperial core is not the world. Don't forget that. While the culture you live in may be a lost cause, that doesn't mean that the bulk of humanity is so lost, so kneecapped as what you see around you. We are undeniably entering a new multipolar world.
It might. I wouldn't count it as a surprise if the world ended in a nuclear fire that the US lit. But I also don't see it as a foregone conclusion. We ARE going to face civilization-ending climate change effects. We're not getting around that. But remember capital can escape for more fertile pastures before just outright dying. As dedollarization sweeps the globe, we just might have attempts at capital flight out of the US before the US actually dies. I don't know, no crystal ball, but the US might end up whimpering a lot more than it actually throws a tantrum that takes down the rest of the world. Whatever the case though, TRPF is at it's limits and we're going to see some shit in the coming years.
The historical remedy to that has historically been massive conventional warfare to destroy fixed capital, so a falling rate could encourage the US to lash out.
The imperial core will be all that’s left when the global south gets buck broken by environmental collapse, heatwaves, droughts, floods. Only question is if citizens in the core will embrace leftism when the resources/labor from the periphery run out. Or will the wave of refugees from the periphery push us towards fascism? Hard to say I guess
The imperial core is not the world. Don't forget that. While the culture you live in may be a lost cause, that doesn't mean that the bulk of humanity is so lost, so kneecapped as what you see around you. We are undeniably entering a new multipolar world.
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no it won’t, but it will make a mess on its way down
It might. I wouldn't count it as a surprise if the world ended in a nuclear fire that the US lit. But I also don't see it as a foregone conclusion. We ARE going to face civilization-ending climate change effects. We're not getting around that. But remember capital can escape for more fertile pastures before just outright dying. As dedollarization sweeps the globe, we just might have attempts at capital flight out of the US before the US actually dies. I don't know, no crystal ball, but the US might end up whimpering a lot more than it actually throws a tantrum that takes down the rest of the world. Whatever the case though, TRPF is at it's limits and we're going to see some shit in the coming years.
The historical remedy to that has historically been massive conventional warfare to destroy fixed capital, so a falling rate could encourage the US to lash out.
The imperial core will be all that’s left when the global south gets buck broken by environmental collapse, heatwaves, droughts, floods. Only question is if citizens in the core will embrace leftism when the resources/labor from the periphery run out. Or will the wave of refugees from the periphery push us towards fascism? Hard to say I guess