Done with my rant. Feeling much better already. Perhaps I´ll do Sweden next time. Anyway, I'm sure everything will be fine.

Even without nukes, a war wouldn´t leave much of the eco systems in any continent involved, not to say globally.

Russia gets Europe, China Taiwan. The US would get... Greenland... and vanish. Russia happy. Or... What would a desperate Trump do to save not his country but his ego? Surely he wouldn´t do that..?

But, oh no, Russia says it struggles with the war effort. The US has to wage war on its own. And what with Canada allied with the EU, China invading Taiwan, uprisings in ME and Latin America and no friends anywhere!

Where would the UK stand? Not an EU country, and suspicious of those Continentals. And heavily dependent on the US. A good base for an invasion? Worked before.

Zones of interest: Russia gets the old East Bloc, the US the rest. At least on paper. Russia would want to occupy and exploit, the US only to destroy a competitor and look victorious.

US enters a more formal military alliance with Russia, aimed at Nazi-Communist Anti-American Europe (no need to be picky). A Russian invasion of the Baltics directly supported by the US.

Russia, given a victory in Ukraine by the US, moves in to defend Russian minorities in the Baltic states. Left-over NATO reacts in a hostile way – typical for Europe.

US picking an enemy. ME has been done, China is too risky, Russia... what? Canada would probably take too long to demonize. Europe – unpleasant lot, and beating Germany in WW is always popular, right? And Old Put wants to fight the EU too.

US leaving NATO, for a wider selection of potential enemies and allies. When the former allies insist on US bases being shut down, they are presented as hostile by the Orange House.

Trump will most likely need a war eventually, probably soon. It would provide useful scapegoats, silence opposition, and be very profitable, short-term. The plan, as I understand it, would be as follows:

If we could learn from the present and inverted the development, we could have a sustainable and peaceful global community without poverty and drudgery. Or at least stumble along in that general direction. As Marx hoped, though premature attempts were discouraging.

If this process was inevitable and absolute, AI would eventually get rid of the somewhat human oligarchs as well, which would be interesting. But AI isn´t quite there yet.

If we can´t come up with new ways of distributing wealth, we may see a class of oligarchs ruling an AI middle class and a robot working class, with most of humanity left out to beg.

(OK, sometimes a subset of the elite kicked out the rest of the elite. But all the same...) (The working class staying pretty much the same, either conned by middle class into risings benefitting the middle or overturning the pyramid only to rebuild it again.)

What Marx was showing was really the increasing level of abstraction as economic systems evolved, the middle class being the up-to-date experts, now and then kicking out the old elite. But much of the working class has been replaced by robots, and now the middle class by AI.

The plan: To run both states and corporations, the world, by AI, while you live in luxury (?) in space. A dynasty of superhumans (???) will easily find solutions when the Earth is used up. Or, remaining on the planet, privilege will always prevail. Not a safe bet.

To fully harvest the resources of poorer lands, with increasingly desperate and violent populations, the rich states have to take direct control of the territories. Of course, taxpayers pay and fight, corporations reap the profits.

Neo-Colonialism is proof that the Right-Wing elites actually do believe in climate change. Neo-Imperialism – corporations exploiting with state back-up – will not be enough. Territory is important again.

And they really did find the master economy crasher now, didn´t they?

Tempting for oligarchs to crash the global economy and use the phoney credit only they could still enjoy to buy everything for nothing. Literally nothing.

Or to update that: Destroy communications and information, install puppet regimes, and have AI survey and supervise. Drone troublemakers.

Russia's WWII-style invasion of Ukraine damaging also because it makes so many believe the next WW will be fought rifle in hand on the ground. Incels tempted by heroics. Modern warfare: Destroy all military and civilian infrastructure from a distance first.

Gaza similarities to Spanish Civil War: Used as testing ground for tech, ideology, propaganda, repression. And passivity as action.

I'm not a global politics expert in any way, but I just have to vent!

Inför klimattullar mot USA Det dröjde bara en dag av Trump-styre innan USA hade lämnat Parisavtalet. Men det var bara början. I beslut efter beslut smulas den (redan otillräckliga) klimatpolitiken sönder.  Den så kallade ...

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There is one Autistic person who is a "dire threat", I'd say, but once he is removed what's-his-face could relax.

I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic

And what's more leftist than that

And Washington Irving

I read those two the week before my national service mustering. Not heard much from the armed forces since then.