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    • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
      24·
      14 days ago

      Sadly, if Brain Berletic’s take turns out to be true, the war will not end soon but it will expand.

      You can check his take here -> https://journal-neo.su/2026/04/28/why-the-us-is-at-war-with-iran-and-why-the-war-might-pause-but-wont-end/

      Until the interests driving US foreign policy — including the arms industry, big oil and gas, big tech, the automotive industry, and many others — are displaced around the globe by the alternatives offered by multipolarism, and until the multipolar world can create sufficient deterrence against not only US military aggression but also the economic coercion, political interference, and capture that lead to that aggression, the US will continue to hold global peace, prosperity, and stability hostage to its demands for continued unipolar hegemony over the planet.

      • PumpkinFactory@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        22·
        14 days ago

        I don’t want to sound like I am crassly glazing my own country (China), but come to think of it, I am immensely thankful that China is taking up the economic fight against US hegemony.

        arms industry -> Good luck with missiles and jets while we hold rare earth and specialized metal industries in hard check
        big oil -> renewables are gaining ground despite efforts of big oil to cripple them, and most solar panels are now exported by China
        big tech -> Alternatives are here, including a much more resource efficient ecosystem of AI, to the point even companies in Silicon Valley are using them
        automotive industry -> Got Ford so shocked, lobbying efforts have been made in Washinton to never allow Chinese EVs to compete

        Also, banking and international transaction -> used to be, SWIFT was the only game in town, now no longer.

        Despite not being a “pure” socialist state, China is taking on the challenge of the century and taking on the crumbling empire by it’s neck.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
          28·
          13 days ago

          To be clear, “pure” socialism is largely a western conception. China has a socialist market economy, and is gradually developing and progressing along that road. Socialism is a process more than it is a “thing.”