The majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Common Dreams
The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated
Stuff like this gives me hope looking forward. Sure, USA is now mask-off facism, but the rest of the world is leaving it behind. Our job in the imperial core is to simply ensure that the decay takes down as few as possible with it.
That's what I'm most optimistic about as well. Things re gonna get shitty in the west, but it seems like the rest of the world will follow China towards socialism. I'd argue we're living through the reverse of the collapse of USSR. This time around it's the capitalist bloc that's in crisis, while the socialist countries are going from strength to strength.
I realize it's not as clearly cut this time around and there are plenty of capitalist nations in BRICS bloc. However, my hope is that as the liberal capitalist model becomes discredited, more countries will start to emulate what China is doing. And of course, things are finally looking up for DPRK, Cuba, and Vietnam.
I would feel so much better if Russia was still the USSR again and not a reactionary hell hole. Capitalists always fight for capitalism, and they will do that and try to become the new hegemony once they got the US out of the picture. It would benefit their oligarchs, just like it benefits the US's oligarchs right now, to keep their allies capitalist and not socialist.
Luckily at present, it benefits them to fight imperialism with the rest of the global south, and I know it's a bit far along to worry about, since we don't even know how BRICS will get through this period of the US and a lot can happen, I'm just worried about Russian (and Indian, if they keep electing similar people,) influence on the global south after the US has fallen. It sucks having all our chips on China, would be nice if there was an alternative.
I agree, it's a huge tragedy that USSR didn't last just a few more decades. If only the party did what was necessary and put Gorbachev against the wall.
best case, and mostly sci-fi wishcasting, is after Putin United Russia fragments back into smaller parties and the communist grab a majority. then maybe get a kind of socdem/demsoc socially conservative state, starting to follow the China model. best case scenerio unfortunately i think
Stuff like this gives me hope looking forward. Sure, USA is now mask-off facism, but the rest of the world is leaving it behind. Our job in the imperial core is to simply ensure that the decay takes down as few as possible with it.
That's what I'm most optimistic about as well. Things re gonna get shitty in the west, but it seems like the rest of the world will follow China towards socialism. I'd argue we're living through the reverse of the collapse of USSR. This time around it's the capitalist bloc that's in crisis, while the socialist countries are going from strength to strength.
I realize it's not as clearly cut this time around and there are plenty of capitalist nations in BRICS bloc. However, my hope is that as the liberal capitalist model becomes discredited, more countries will start to emulate what China is doing. And of course, things are finally looking up for DPRK, Cuba, and Vietnam.
I would feel so much better if Russia was still the USSR again and not a reactionary hell hole. Capitalists always fight for capitalism, and they will do that and try to become the new hegemony once they got the US out of the picture. It would benefit their oligarchs, just like it benefits the US's oligarchs right now, to keep their allies capitalist and not socialist.
Luckily at present, it benefits them to fight imperialism with the rest of the global south, and I know it's a bit far along to worry about, since we don't even know how BRICS will get through this period of the US and a lot can happen, I'm just worried about Russian (and Indian, if they keep electing similar people,) influence on the global south after the US has fallen. It sucks having all our chips on China, would be nice if there was an alternative.
I agree, it's a huge tragedy that USSR didn't last just a few more decades. If only the party did what was necessary and put Gorbachev against the wall.
They were so close to seeing the US decay lol. If only someone could've done what was necessary to Gorvachev and they pushed through.
The good news is that China paid attention, and they learned from the mistakes USSR made.
At least Russia and India have communist parties. There's plenty to be optimistic about
best case, and mostly sci-fi wishcasting, is after Putin United Russia fragments back into smaller parties and the communist grab a majority. then maybe get a kind of socdem/demsoc socially conservative state, starting to follow the China model. best case scenerio unfortunately i think