The U.S. issued the warning on Thursday, the same day Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in India after concluding a two-day visit to China.
Well, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan were successful in the sense that they made war profiteers a ton of cash, and in the subconscious "this country is just the arbiter of capital" sense, a lot of capital was destroyed. Cuba, Iran, NK, Palestine and Venezuela are still under siege because they angered the United States for various reasons and until recently had nowhere else to go and nobody to help them.
Most of this is predicated on us being the consumer of last resort. If one of these countries we destroyed had nukes and didn't give them up/we couldn't level them, we could crush them in other ways because everyone needs to sell us shit and up until this point, if we restricted trade, it meant something. What the fuck is the US going to do to Iran if suddenly they're allowed to get food, medicine, consumer goods and all the shit we said they're not allowed to have?
And also, what's the good outcome? What's the ideal situation that these threats bring about? India backs down, completely capitulates and in return gets jack shit from burgerland for doing so OR as another poster in this thread pointed out, whatever sanctions we slap them with they just ignore anyways.
Anyways, good times ahead and I mean that sincerely. The dollar has done more to strangle the left globally than every fascist that will probably ever exist, and we're seeing the quick death of it.
The US's real power came from them being the dominant economic player. This allowed them to use their military with basically no consequence.
In other words, being the only viable economic partner to other countries meant they could bully them and secure 'good outcomes' for the US. But now China is everyone's biggest trading partner and the US seems completely unable to account for that reality.
Well, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan were successful in the sense that they made war profiteers a ton of cash, and in the subconscious "this country is just the arbiter of capital" sense, a lot of capital was destroyed. Cuba, Iran, NK, Palestine and Venezuela are still under siege because they angered the United States for various reasons and until recently had nowhere else to go and nobody to help them.
Most of this is predicated on us being the consumer of last resort. If one of these countries we destroyed had nukes and didn't give them up/we couldn't level them, we could crush them in other ways because everyone needs to sell us shit and up until this point, if we restricted trade, it meant something. What the fuck is the US going to do to Iran if suddenly they're allowed to get food, medicine, consumer goods and all the shit we said they're not allowed to have?
And also, what's the good outcome? What's the ideal situation that these threats bring about? India backs down, completely capitulates and in return gets jack shit from burgerland for doing so OR as another poster in this thread pointed out, whatever sanctions we slap them with they just ignore anyways.
Anyways, good times ahead and I mean that sincerely. The dollar has done more to strangle the left globally than every fascist that will probably ever exist, and we're seeing the quick death of it.
The US's real power came from them being the dominant economic player. This allowed them to use their military with basically no consequence.
In other words, being the only viable economic partner to other countries meant they could bully them and secure 'good outcomes' for the US. But now China is everyone's biggest trading partner and the US seems completely unable to account for that reality.