But Ukraine’s president fears that some of his country’s Western backers are losing faith

Mr Zelensky, a former television actor with an acute sense of his audience, has detected a change of mood among some of his partners. “I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you,’” he says, speaking in English (a language in which he is increasingly fluent). “But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”

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  • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    It doesn’t matter whether Trump supports Putin or not at this point.

    The European theater is now a settled business. Biden has gone in decisively and scared European capital into fully rallying behind the US, while Trump wanted to play some “art of the deal” master only to be scoffed off by the Europeans.

    China and Russia had both tried to sway Europe to their sides throughout 2022, but all attempts had failed. Biden’s “diplomacy” proved too powerful to resist.

    Both the Dems and GOP can now unite in turning their focus towards China, because Europe/Russia is irrelevant at this point.

    IMEC is coming:

    And as I have been warning over the months, the excess dollar liquidity pumped up since COVID and after the interest rate hikes of 2022 has to go somewhere:

    They won’t be invested in the US, i.e. re-shoring of industries isn’t going to happen, because the bourgeoisie are afraid of raising wages and living standards of the working class, which would only lead to more labor unions and workers movement to challenge them from within.

    Instead, the excess money will flood the developing world to create an alternative supply chain to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

    Whether they can succeed or not is another matter, but in their minds, finance is more powerful than industry. After all, it was the US that suppressed the industrial growth of the Global South to concentrate all the industries in China, whose vast cheap labor they could easily exploit to drive the global wages down. Now China is fighting back, all the US has to do is to alleviate the very suppressive structures they have imposed on the Global South, and allow their industries to grow.

    After the summer of 2022, when dollar had flown back to the US, creating a liquidity drain across the developing world who find themselves having to work harder to earn dollars to service their debt and import energy/food/commodities priced in dollar, you bet they’d welcome the dollar flooding their economy.

    BRICS is at its most perilous moment. It is not their fault that they cannot replace dollar in the short amount of time, because nobody can. Now it’s about how they can shield themselves from the impending assault of the weaponized dollar regime that Biden (or Trump) is about to set upon the world.

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      As a European, the writing is on the wall that shit’s going downhill

      I wish I actually was a paid CCP shill, maybe that would give me a leg up when I eventually try to migrate there

    • Shrike502@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Europe/Russia is irrelevant at this point

      Remind me who’s making fuel for nuclear power plants in USA

      • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The problem with this logic is that you cannot fight China without settling the business with Europe/Russia first.

        The 2009 financial crisis had weakened the US financial sector and allowed the EU to develop as a rival currency bloc (thanks to cheap Russian energy supply), whose alignment with Russia and China could pose a direct threat to US hegemony on the world.

        This is why the post-2009 strategy has been to sever Europe-Russia ties, first with the Maidan coup (just after Nord Stream 1 was completed) and then the current war in Ukraine (just after Nord Stream 2 was completed).

        Trump was also part of the strategy, make no mistake, although he preferred the “art of the deal” bullshit rather than Biden’s bomb Ukraine and Nord Stream strategy to make the Europeans yield.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Trump wins and blue-maga unites with red-maga over his support for Ukraine. Engages in lionisation and repeating his slogans. Liberal nationalists are all the same on foreign policy, there is no red/blue divide.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Why would you set yourself up so perfectly for a cereal2 moment like this

    Like I know it’s not likely in any sense, but surely just saying it this way manifests it a little closer to reality lol