Can’t wait until we’re all in a very Chinese time of our lives
Shows you the power of soft power propaganda. From the Indian Wars to Agent Orange to the genocide in Gaza, the US has been nothing but a racist and violent settler colonial state, yet it was admired and looked up to.
China tops US 😳
US is a bottom with Trump
Not really the point but I’m excited for African media orgs to gain more prominence. They hammer home points about neocolonialism in a way Russia & Iran only do sparingly, since it is acknowkedged as a lived reality not a countervailing (no longer?) political theory to the established curriculum of the west
Hearing voices from Africa would be incredibly educational, especially for people in the west.
About time
Unsurprising, and with no sign of stopping. It isn’t simply a matter of the US falling, but China is also rising in approval, and this gap is widening as the old imperialist world order is dying away and multilateralism is rising.
The US is much like Sparta in its society, rise, and even the particular way it is declining.
It would probably be a great effort post if I was more well-read.
Spartans, throughout their entire span of civilization, believed they were an invading force with a divine right to the land and to enslave its people. It only ever allied with its peers in convenience and to its own benefit, betraying them at all turns.
Their violent and psychopathic society, even by the standards of the time, resulted in them being unable to maintain any major land expansion, enrich their civilization, or even grow their population.
The Spartans remained insular, shrinking and shrinking until they were a small village sitting around a campfire, boldly challenging Alexander to come and conquer them.
In reality, Sparta was not worth the food it would take to march there.
To the last Spartan, their society ended with their eyes shut and ears covered, in denial as the world moved on. Wholly believing to the very end that they were the ordained masters of Greece, the peak of civilization.
In the same way, America is meeting its violent end, its people convinced to the last that they are the shining city on the hill.
Chinas victory has already occurred. The corpse of America just hasn’t realized it yet.
at the very end, after rome conquered greece, they were basically a spartan theme park for visiting roman aristos.
Well-said! Right now the decay in hard power is making itself more obvious, as is the inability of the empire to compete with China going forward. Given 5, 10, 15, 20 years this gap will only widen and accelerate unless the US has a socialist revolution.
Basically, the dynamic has been that the US used its massive global media penetration to push its propaganda. Today, Chinese media is starting to break out globally creating a counterbalance to the American narrative. And at the same time, American image is starting to visibly crack first in Gaza and now in Iran. I’d argue the trend is now irreversible. China is in a great position to demonstrate leadership during the economic crisis, and its solar panels, batteries, and EVs will be salvation for many countries.
watching the younger generations of my family embrace maga despite their liberal & leftists origins coupled with first hand witnessing tiktok becoming captured along with open source taking it’s first step towards ID verification makes me think that this trend can be reversed.
Perhaps in the US, but China is starting to rival US media on the global stage, it’s far more important economically, and it’s not starting constant wars around the world. I really can’t see how the US image recovers at this point.
a reversal will take place in most of the current western world unless the europeans break from the united states and that seems unlikely considering how they’ve continue to side with the united states despite doing so to their own detriment where it concerns russia, iran, ukraine, and greenland.
for the united states, specifically, i forsee a russia like future; where it relies on hard power from a slowly aging military to keep in line the latin american countries that keep trying to break free of its control and with an oligarchy that is perpetually one step ahead of the rest of the populace as it currently is with social media in latin america.
You have to remember that the regimes in Europe are not actually representative of the public opinion. They’re deeply unpopular polling under 20% in France, Germany, and UK which are the major European powers. And as the energy crisis hits, Europe might actually enter revolutionary conditions. The standard of living is collapsing, everybody can see how the wars are destroying their standard of living, and how the US is raping Europe. The US is not winning in the court of public opinion in Europe in any sense.
And for the US, it’s difficult to say how it plays out, the question is going to be how the US manages to navigate its own economic crisis that’s now brewing. the economies of the vassals crashing will necessarily spill over as well as imports and exports become affected. So, that will feed into the domestic crisis as companies start shuttering and laying people off.
It’s certainly possible the US becomes a full on fascist dictatorship, but the big question is how it will manage material production. Trump’s attempt to reshore industry was a spectacular failure, and industrial base in the US is actually shrinking faster than before the tariff war. The US is also highly dependent on China for a lot of critical inputs like rare earths. And as the US retrenches, it’s going to lose much of its ability to extract labor and resources from the Global South.
Finally, should Iran prevail in West Asia, that could be the final blow as the US will lose control of the Gulf and petrodollar will be broken with shipments through Hormuz having to be settled in yuan.
Yep, agreed! The electrification of global infrastructure is going to be massive going forward.
we might actually start dealing with the climate crisis in a meaningful way
Iran is fighting for a green new world
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