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I remember early in the pandemic when I was still on non-political boards' politics sections and the most left leaning person there, who I got on with quite well, kept saying he was pissed at what he called Third Worldists who wanted a nation other than the US to find a cure. It already seemed stupid to complain about people merely wishing for China or idk even SA to find a vaccine that works, but he would get really firm about it when I asked "well if it has to be somebody wouldn't it be better if it is someone who won't try to use it as a cudgel?"
In hindsight I feel very vindicated, this is the exact shit that one could predict would happen. The US no matter who made a cure, would hold it over poor countrys' heads and try to prevent usage of a vaccine if it is made by their enemies. You cannot hold the apolitical "I just hope someone, anyone, finds a vaccine" because we do not live in a world in which something so life-saving is going to be treated as property of all of humanity. It cannot be apolitical, it cannot be separated from the empire and its goals
Their cudgel is going to be disengaging economically from the farcical de-industrialized Western rump. The winds are blowing away from the American empire. Soon we'll all be
and no one will be 