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Delegation from Alliance of Sahel States visits Cuba for revolutionary exchange
(peoplesdispatch.org)
Ah gotcha, I thought Ollama was text only
This one is multimodal and can generate images.
It's always the fault of the exploited people when bad things happen to them
Exactly, the whole point of having proxies is that they're expandable. The US would get involved up to the point where it feels like it's too much of a commitment for them. They're not gonna suffer the consequences of all this.
haha yes, I thought it was Postol as well but figured I must've misremembered
So we went from China is a dystopian hellhole because 996 and people are forced to work too hard, to China is bad because people aren't working hard?
also fuck yeah!
Many Chinese people therefore reacted with surprise and no little scorn to a new official survey of how they spend their time. The study, only the third of its kind, claimed that the average resident devotes less than three and a half hours a day to paid labour.
What's funny here is that every US proxy thinks they're gonna get the full backing of the US once shit hits the fan. Ukrainians totally thought that NATO would fight for them when they got into a war with Russia. Now it's Europeans thinking that they're indefensible and that the US will totally fight along side them when the time comes.
yeah it totally could be just pure propaganda too
I definitely expect that the most likely scenario is that the US dumps Ukraine on Europe and focuses on China going forward. This is already kind of hinted by Trump's picks, a lot of whom are China hawks. My prediction is that the downfall in the west is going to be economic as opposed to a big military defeat.
Europe is already in a recession, and things are only looking worse every day. There's absolutely no way to turn that around at this point. Meanwhile, there are big problems brewing in the US economy as well. The US did an amazing job kicking the can down the road so far, but you can only do that for so long and all that means is that the crash is going to be that much bigger when it comes.
The signs are already visible. Credit card and auto delinquencies are at all time high, other defaults on debt like mortgagees are likely not far off. The salaries are not keeping up with the cost of living, so discretionary spending is going down which results in companies rate of profit crashing. The tariffs Trump is promising are only going to make things worse as they drive up prices for the consumers. Once the defaults hit a certain point then we'll see a big debt crisis unfold akin to 2008. The oligarchs like Buffets and Bezos are already pulling money out of stocks in anticipation. While all that's happening, the US is also losing economic war against the BRICS with more and more countries dedollarizing. Even worse, China is now issuing dollar bonds of their own which are directly competing with the US.
The western public is already becoming angry, and a big economic crash is very likely to lead to mass unrest across the western world.
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