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it'll be the Russo-Japanese War but for our times. outside of their respective national histories, its importance is "look what this conflict portended for the one that came after it"

just as a wild guess, there's always been a connection between space and seafaring (e.g. navigating by the stars) and also the names just sound good I guess. just so happens that the genocide-adoring West has had the most ocean-traveling cargo-bearing ships too

“The Working Class Is the Arsenal of Democracy”

god damn it

at least in the article, he uses it in its original context during WW2:

In the 1940s, during World War II, UAW members were building B-42 Liberator bombers at the Willow Run plant. Those bombers were a big piece in the arsenal of democracy that helped defeat the fascists, who were seeking to divide and conquer the working class. The UAW was responsible for creating the arsenal of democracy that led to the United States winning the war.

dinosaur-killing asteroid hits Tel Aviv, 53 with minor injuries, 2 seriously injured, 1 dead

gigachad music accompanying the return of his perfectly smooth bald head.

anybody know what's been going on with Wagner since Prigozhin got 'd? I heard something about Prigo's son getting involved but I've been focussing on the Middle East so didn't care to investigate

It'll take a while to actually pan out in my opinion. What'll probably happen is American analysts will write up pieces a day/week/month after it happens and go "See? Nothing major really happened, no big shifts, so I think Putin has been officially owned!" but in the background over the ensuing months and years, it'll become increasingly apparent that, oh shit, several countries have actually taken serious action to strengthen themselves against potential American financial attacks. So it'll be a "global financial crisis" when viewed in retrospect, but not like, the utter crash that the markets experienced in the first month of coronavirus lockdowns - it'll be a more orderly process. Even if there is a day 1 meltdown, it'll probably fix itself relatively quickly because there's not really any country or institution ready to replace the US on that timescale.

I'd be interested to see what effect, if any, it has on BRICS+, given that they seem fairly disinterested in formulating an organized opposition to Western financial hegemony right now, instead focussing on dedollarizing trade between themselves inside their club. Necessity is the mother of invention.

It certainly feels like the 2016-2020 period was a Western referendum on "Will the bourgeoisie allow a reformist movement to redistribute some of the wealth contained in the top 0.1% to keep the system going for another few decades, or will we accelerate straight into a brick wall of fascist bloodshed which will consume tens of millions of lives if you're feeling optimistic," and the latter option won. There just aren't any offramps anymore. There are massive quantitative changes (plummeting Western military reserves; China's manufacturing rising; wealth inequality rising; etc) leading to sudden qualitative changes (Ukraine War, the Resistance gradually dismantling Israel, BRICS expansion) and these sudden changes will become more widespread and frequent and lead to a positive feedback loop of imperial collapse.

But the only thing the Western bourgeoisie (and many outside of the West, as we see with Bukele and several other leaders) can think to do is pump more and more resources into surveillance and policing and mass oppression, rather than improving conditions. It might delay the internal collapses of capitalist regimes, but it can't prevent those collapses, and it'll end up making them much more bloody than they would be otherwise. We're gonna see a repeat of the very politically active and unstable 1914-1945 period, I think. Maybe in retrospect, historians will mark that period of global transformation as starting in 2022, and we're just two years into a thirty year process. But I also think the global anti-imperialist forces are in a better position than during that time, and the capitalists have more exploitable weaknesses if a sufficiently courageous anti-imperialist country like China or Russia can take the leap of faith towards a very painful campaign of forcing dedollarization. The West is visibly struggling right now to keep all these plates spinning.

But hey, some poor motherfuckers have gotta live through the capitalist-socialist transition, and there's no reason why we shouldn't be those poor motherfuckers. Sucks for us, but victory will mean thousands if not millions of years of post-scarcity existence for future humanity. I'm willing to fight for that.

everybody start studying up on your 15th century European fortress designs, we'll have miniature versions placed on tank treads soon enough

St. Javelin? More like St. Ravelin, amirite

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I just got punched in the face a couple times in a fight, but decided not to punch back, thus making me the winner