Except Elon thinks that America is pushing other countries against it by being too woke. "Only by getting rid of DEI can the United States mend its geopolitical ties." -
i will declare it officially mended only if/when russia has a solid communist majority in its parliament
(or better yet a revolution but that doesn't look to be in the cards)
They phrase it in a way like russia isnt allowed to have allies. If China provides cotton that goes to the sock of the farmer who planted the wheat a russian soldier eat, they are complicit in war crimes or whatever. But if you provide planes, bombs, ammo, intel etc to ukraine (or isntreal) its ok
"b-but you see, sweaty, we're the good guys and they're the bad guys!"Ummmmmmmmm have you considered there are Nazis on both sides?
(gee I hope they don't ask where all this lethal aid is going)
He’s just desperate for China to give Tesla permission to sell what few number of cars they have in the country lol
Putin is, if nothing else, a practical man. He has to have noticed how well the Chinese have done in the years since the fall of the USSR. Like, if there's a model that works in the 21st century, that's the one.
When there was still some hope of rapprochement with the West I guess I could see why he didn't want to go full Socialism with Russian Characteristics but why wouldn't you do it now? Will we see Dengist-Putinist thought in our time?
Very much doubt it. Russia may be a part of an anti western hegemonic movement, but it is itself a deeply extractive reactionary oligarchy.
I don’t see Russia pressing the communist button any time soon and not without a big fight.
I'm mostly just trying to lathe something good into the world for once
there is a fair amount of state purchasing of private industry going on and Russian workers are, relative to the 1990s and also to Europeans in manufacturing losing their jobs right now, doing fairly well for themselves. this doesn't, of course, mean that any socialism is happening but it is two interesting trends.
my personal prediction for the next few decades of Russian history is something along the lines of:
- Russia wins war relatively soon, possibly not this year depending on how exactly things shake out but very probably by 2025-2026
- the break with neoliberal policy, such that it is (there's still plenty of neoliberalism going on) also ends and there's a return to the almighty god-given authority of the Central Bank
- this necessarily means that Russian workers, who were previously in an alright spot, start suffering as neoliberals enact austerity to beat down the working class again so they don't start getting any ideas
- this austerity goes through without much organized resistance, but Russian workers are able to draw the conclusion that when the state was more involved, things were good, and when the state retreated, things got bad. Putin is probably dead by this point due to his age which further complicates things
- who even knows what happens after that, it's way too underdetermined and the decline of the US empire will have had even more impacts by then that make analysis and predictions not very helpful, but drawing on the couple years after WW1 in Italy and England (which Mattei's The Capital Order nicely analyzes), we either get a new USSR rising, a successful beatdown of the working class without too much violence like what happened in England, or we get Italian-style fascism in retaliation for socialist revolutionaries trying and failing to take power. though how fascism would even work in a multipolar context is kinda fuzzy to me, especially as China would, hopefully, act as a counterbalancing force ideologically for that kind of thing.
o'clock already? Where does the time go?
