imagine having to create vastly complicated international supply chains to keep sustaining a consumption-based society while geopolitical interests remained fully national and many times divergent or antagonistic
like you obviously couldn't keep that shit going
you can't make those interests converge globally, the dominant classes in each country will always clash against each other in their own struggles for dominance
you can't bring stuff back and atomize production because at the very least prices will soar and your consumption drones are going to get mad and revolt
countries in the center did manage to maintain this by sheer force since the 80s, but that control is waning, and the very structure they created to adapt to the new conditions and keep the line going up is getting ruined
where the fuck is the way out of this
edit: what i mean is that what we're seeing since ukraine is just going to keep happening, this is part of a much larger process that will probably be very disruptive, maybe even "disruptive enough"
I’m extremely cross faded at the moment, but I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if in 10-20 years far right radicals have used American weapons left over from the war to take over the Ukrainian government.
This isn’t a prediction or anything, just speculation.
I shudder to think what Russia will look like in 20 years. I could see Ukraine and the areas around it destabilizing like the Middle East and Russia just being cut off from the rest of the world like NK or Cuba but on an absurd scale. I feel so bad for the people of Russia and Ukraine. They’re full of so many great, honest, hard working people whose lives are getting torn apart by the actions of the State.
I honestly don’t know where we go from here. What superpower are we going after next? The world is only so big.