Trusting US to keep to its agreements and promises is so lol. The US has a bigger military, why the fuck would we do that?

https://twitter.com/twittarmatthaus/status/1636247148663644160

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          You can believe two things at once, both with conviction. Brains are just weird like that.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        The people in charge of monetary and military policy aren't. This is how you get stories of American elites reading Mao.

        The neoliberal option for Europe, reinforced by a supposedly ‘nonpolitical’ management of its common currency (the euro), is a major handicap for any strategy to lift the continent clear of stagnation. This absurd monetary policy suits Washington down to the ground, since the US currency (the dollar) is managed in a quite different, thoroughly political manner that has nothing to do with neoliberal dogma. Combined with the possibility that Washington will gain exclusive control over the world’s oil reserves, it ensures that what I call the oil/dollar standard will remain in the end the sole international monetary instrument, relegating the euro to the status of a subaltern regional currency.

        The EU truly believe the neoliberal dogma, the US don't. It's why they manage their currency in the way they do, it's why they bail out the capitalists, it's why they did the oil wars, it's why everytime someone tries to sell oil in alternative currencies they get invaded by the US.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/critical-race-theory-general-mark-milley-defence-military

            Milley defended the curriculum and said: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”

            • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Lmao at the idea of chuds at military academies and bootcamp reading Mao edgily at night under candlelight.

              • electerrific [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                Remember the cadet at West Point who was about to graduate, who was photographed with a 'COMMUNISM WILL WIN' card under his hat he was about to wear while walking across the stage to get his diploma?

    • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Despite the undeniable volume of coolaid I don't think that the European neoliberal project of the EU, the ECB and so on would have been able to function at the (admittedly not very high) level they have been able to so far if literally all of them drank their own coolaid. I think there are definitely high level administrators in the key european economic and financial institutions like the ECB who are equally awre as American financiers and monetary policy makers of what maintaining the financial and monetary system actually entails, e.g. throwing industrial capitalism shibboleths about investors needing to accept the risks of their investments (whatever form) out the window. They know that you don't through the baby out with the bathwater.

      If you read Fed economic papers there's often alot of coolaid as well.