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There’s still the colour revolutions (Myanmar, Thailand). Although after HK, not sure how reliable those are. I hesitate to count the US out; it’s propaganda apparatus is still unmatched. Also, regarding Australia, they seem to be banging the drums recently.
There’s still the colour revolutions (Myanmar, Thailand).
Ah, yes. The glorious color revolution of Myanmar. How’s that going again?
I hesitate to count the US out; it’s propaganda apparatus is still unmatched. Also, regarding Australia, they seem to be banging the drums recently.
Australia’s GDP peaked in 2013. They can bang their drum all they fucking like. The drum is also on fire.
And HK seems to be a compelling counterpoint to the “American propaganda is unmatched” narrative. Also, if you look around at these color revolutions over the last ten or fifteen years, they haven’t radically changed the status quo. Americans still struggle to grip the Ukraine, the efforts in Iran were firmly rebuffed, the efforts in Venezuela and Bolivia were rebuffed, Brazil is reverting back to the Lula status-quo, Pakistan backfired, China’s Jasmine revolt was flubbed, Turkey was a flop, the effort to get Alexei Navalny sympathy in Russia appears to have largely failed, Afghanistan is just a series of increasingly obvious Ls…
Where revolutions have succeeded - Egypt, Libya, Guatemala, Sudan, I guess India kinda? - the long-term consequences have mostly been to tread water at the expense of a more stable government.
And we’re all over the place. Too many adversaries, not nearly enough allies. The post-Iraq World no longer has the EU on our side.
The post-Iraq World no longer has the EU on our side.
How do you figure that? The EU still votes with the US in the UN. When the US tells them to scrap Huawei 5G they do so obediently. NATO is still a thing and may even get worse if the hawkish Greens in Germany get in. They agree with the US on Xinjiang.
How do you figure that?
Russia going ahead with the Eastern Euro pipeline over American objection. Europeans really not getting involved in Iraq or Afghanistan. Europeans not biting on Iran sanctions and pretty much abandoning Cuba sanctions.
Huawei is a serious competitor to both European telecomm and European domestic espionage, so that’s more self-interest. I suspect the Greens in Germany - like the Greens in the US - have been compromised, but I am dubious of their capacity to move Germany on its relative neutrality given how hard that would fuck the country economically.
And I think that’s really at the heart of so much of this shit. The money. America isn’t the center of the global economy now that it’s been rebuilt following WW/Cold Wars. Lots of money to be had that doesn’t flow through the States.
