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Looting The ‘Allies’
With regards to Trump attempting to land grab Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, Agit Papadakis offers some interesting observation:
The Bozo [Trump] Doctrine, the Bibi [Netanyahoo] Doctrine, and the Tayyip [Erdogan] Doctrine, are all converging on a new post-Westphalian world disorder of imperialism gone nuts.
For the cucked vassals of the old order this means either grow a pair and resist or lose every shred of sovereignty, dignity, and material comfort you have left. Cucks like the EU, Australia, Japan, South Korea and wounded weak states like Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq are all suffering the torment of being raped and ravaged by powerful rogue states.
Bozo didn't lose a minute to join the melée. He looked at the economic train wreck he was inheriting and decided it was now or never to hoist the Jolly Roger over his big but old and rusty military machine and what's left of the once mighty dollar's hegemony.
His first victims would be the weak and cucked vassals who poured their sorry excuse for a military and their treasure into the Ukraine black hole. Bozo knows that his unfurling of the black banner will automatically dissolve those BS "alliances" with weak vassals that were never but a frilly negligée concealing America's naked imperialism, as revealed by the the lonely squeak of the French chihuahua protesting Bozo's Greenland grab and threatening to resist.
The cucked chihuahuas of the Rules Based Order are suddenly up against Judgement Day, naked and defenseless between two raging behemoths, Amerisrael and Russia, while an even bigger and scarier one, China, looms over everybody else.
It's the 19th century with nukes and hypersonics and space jets, which would normally be followed by the world wars of the 20th. But with 21st century speed, it shouldn't take longer than a decade if that.
Agit's rant refers to a 'based' thread 'On American expansionism' by Russians With Attitude:
The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.
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The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
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America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.
The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this — and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.
The unilateral moment has ended. Russia, India and China have become too rich and too powerful to be looted. U.S. vassals are now by far the easier target.
Trump's ideas of taking from the 'allies' is not knew. The U.S. plundering of its vassals has been ongoing for some time.
The instigation of the war in Ukraine can be interpreted as a large U.S. looting operation of its European 'allies'.
Biden was also quite successful when he blew up Nord Stream. (This was btw the second time the U.S. destroyed a Russia to Germany pipeline. An analytical book available on the first incident in 1982 had been written by Anthony Blinken!)
The weaklings in the German and EU government did not even dare protest. They instead condemned their people to pay horrendous prices for U.S. fracking gas. On top of that they were pressed to buy U.S. weapons to feed the war in Ukraine.
Things did not go as well as planned with the war in Ukraine but the U.S. is still winning from it.
Greenland will share Puerto Rico’s fate – if it is lucky. I’m quite sure Trump will come up with all kinds of extravagant promises that he never intends to fulfill to lure the naive to get onboard with his plan. The agreement-incapable US reneging on its “no eastward NATO expansion” promise resulting in the Ukraine mess comes to mind.
https://www.diis.dk/en/research/greenland-in-the-mirror-of-puerto-rico
– Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.
– Puerto Ricans are American citizens by birth, yet they have no voting representation in Congress and do not have the right to vote for the president of the United States.
– Puerto Rico’s economy is heavily dependent on federal subsidies, and its fiscal policies and debt restructuring negotiations are in the hands of an unelected oversight board appointed by the president and the congressional leadership.
– Puerto Rico, unlike Greenland, has no authority to conclude international agreements.
Trump cultists responded in a predictable fashion.
From the January 08, 2025 “To Avoid Fighting Large Conflicts Trump Is Creating Smaller Ones” thread:
But in the “good for whom?” field, Greenlanders might be glad to get out from under the Danish yoke. It is kind of absurd that tiny Denmark controls gigantic Greenland, but more to the point, there is a long history of overt racism by Danes regarding the indigenous population of Greenland.
Despite the negative colonial baggage, in the case of a referendum I hope the Greenlanders take plenty of time to consider the benefits of being far removed from one’s master!
Posted by: Jane | Jan 8 2025 15:24 utc | 20
And from this very thread:
Historically the US were to a big extent a de-colonizing power. Just consider the final crushing of the Spanish empire 150 years ago. The last remaining colony on the North American continent is Greenland. So a de-colonization is historically more consistent than it initially seems.
Posted by: xblob | Jan 10 2025 22:14 utc | 85
The fascist followers of Trump (redundant, I know, but the emphasis is needed) have already begun expressing false concern for Greenlanders and justifying the act of annexing Greenland as freeing Greenland from colonial oppression. Greenlanders aren’t being freed. Spain selling the Philippines to the US isn’t freeing the natives. It’s just swapping one master for another master who’s even more abusive.
The very same fascist followers are fiercely advocating for immigrants to be kicked out of the US. Aren’t they afraid of America being forced to support an influx of new people when Greenland is taken over? Why the exception for Greenlanders? Freedom from oppression? Would these fascist Trump followers welcome immigrants if the immigrants claim that they’re escaping oppression back home?
It’s the resources and strategic location of Greenland that the fascists want. Greenlanders themselves are an afterthought.
The fascists are utterly shameless. To serve their fascistic needs, they appropriated the Marxist argument for why the US model for immigration is exploitative.
The productive powers of immigrant workers destined for America are better put to use in developing their home countries – that is true. However, fascists keep forgetting the part where America puts into place policies that severely limit these immigrants’ home countries’ development, including the infamous rent extraction scheme via dollar hegemony, which drives people to leave home and seek a better life in America.
The house negroes (citizens of the imperial core/Americans) are upset that the master of the house are bringing in field negroes (economic migrants) and fear that their position in the household will be usurped. They don’t care if slavery is ended. They don’t care about bringing down their master’s house.
For the European Trump/Musk/AfD devotees:
“German companies had benefited from Nazi Germany’s system of forced labor during World War II, wherein millions of foreigners were taken from their homelands and compelled to work in German factories, often for paltry wages under abominable conditions. In Bahlsen’s case, some seven hundred coerced workers, most of them Polish and Ukrainian women, were deported to the cookie factory in Hannover, where they were underpaid and abused.” Now, imagine a coalition of German workers got together to kick these coerced workers out because it depressed German wages, arguing that these immigrants’ productive powers could be put to better use in developing Ukraine and Poland. This coalition of German workers is completely uninterested in the fact that Ukraine and Poland are under German occupation.
All the signs of typical fascist thinking are there: Juden raus, Lebensraum, slandering socialism (much like how Nazi called themselves national socialists but targeted communists and socialists for purging, Trump’s fascist followers rebranded colonial annexation as decolonization).
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Jan 11 2025 4:45 utc | 135
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