Absent capacity to outdo China, harming China is the only option left, and it's working. The collateral of it is the self harm as well.

Governments now have no idea how to harness the essential decency of ordinary people to work together, and not even a language to talk about doing so Aurelien – Being Non-Transactional braveneweurope.com/aurelien-being… #politics #neoliberalism #transactionalism #economics #Covid

Globalization, its Demise, and its Consequences dissidentvoice.org/2025/04/global…

Warren Buffett: There are levels of trade deficit that bother me "when you are, in effect, buying more from other countries than they're buying from you, you are handing them investment funds" "we don't want it to be a question of where we import 20% of our GDP and we export

Leverage and commodities are not.

What does that mean in practice: That means that at every possible occasion, and under every possible pretext, the space of due process will shrink, and the space of the extrajudicial process will be expanded Bit by a bit

There will be new pretexts, new “emergencies”, and new procedural loopholes, to expand the space of extrajudicial So, in a few iterations you will be having an ocean of the extrajudicial with some islands of the due process in between Totally normal and happens all the time

In fact, extrajudicial processes are typically being limited at first - to the lowly, undesirable and dissident groups - and only then, very gradually, being extended up the social ladder, up to the very elites.

It is not that social elites just decide to extend the due process onto everyone out of grace It is that elites want to extend it on themselves, so that they could not be killed, jailed or exiled extrajudicially, just out of political expediency (as it normally happens)

And once they do, it turns out that keeping two systems of justice at once is becoming impossible One of them will eventually devour the second kamilkazani.substack.com/p/on-the-due-p…

Die Axt am Sozialsystem haintz.media/artikel/deutsc… Alle sozialen Errungenschaften der Menschen werden zielgerichtet zerstört – nicht weil das Geld fehlt, sondern weil es profitabler ist. Während Reiche reicher werden, verrotten Krankenhäuser, verarmen Rentner und verfallen

Stage 1. You sell Chinese goods marked up 10,000% Stage 2. You become unnecessary, and get kicked out Stage 3. They sell it all directly with no intermediary That is pretty much all you need to know about exploitation. The path up *always* lies through getting exploited

Sudan’s war has severed trade routes that eastern Chad once relied on for affordable goods. Since fighting intensified in Sudan, these supply chains have collapsed with ever deepening consequences across eastern Chad. crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…

0 influence on striking Iran by Netanyahu. The Pentagon wants Israel to take the blame for it. It is the Pentagon forcing Netanyahu to strike on its behalf. Israel has no such capacity to strike Iran.

The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight Jeffrey D. Sachs – Giving Birth to the New International Order braveneweurope.com/jeffrey-d-sach… #Geopolitics #Hegemony #MultipolarWorld #China #India

The problem is simply, a fetishization of the stock market that has spread far and wide among the public. For the world as a whole, probably less than 5% of people receive income from financial assets. For many it is simply silly to complain when billionaires become richer & then

The left has gotten itself into a pickle by the fetishization of financial capitalism. Period.

The CCP is a meritocratic (and in my opinion unnecessarily strict) organization that allows only those with good school/college marks and local experience to be part of it. No wonder China was able to play the long game - authoritarian ruling aside.

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