US Vice President JD Vance made it clear that the West wants to keep poor Global South countries trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies.
So they’re gonna continue the status quo?
You can’t be more mad about them actually saying they’re raping and pillaging the Global South than them doing it. The U.S. has worked to keep the Global South impoverished and exploitable for my entire life. I’ve never seen any politician even mention it as an issue. Americans didn’t care before, and now Vance is publicly admitting they don’t care.
Just like the Signal thing where they mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, the real issue for most of the upper echelons of the media and political classes isn’t that they’re funding a genocide and bombing Yemen (this should in fact be supported fully), it’s that they didn’t follow proper comms protocols and goofed their opsec. It looks bad! What’s worse than looking bad while managing empire? To them, nothing.
I did notice the astounding lack of empathy in the original article. Not a word about the Yemen bombing! And then there’s this
chat where he’s celebrating the fact the entire building collapsed to catch one guy meeting his girlfriend. Not a word of condemnation, not a hint that this is perhaps a bit inhumane, or the callous language used by these assholes, nothing! Just whining that they ‘made us look bad’ and he called the EU freeloaders. Libs look at literal dehumanisation and go ‘but he insulted the EU!’ It’s a pathological lack of empathy.
See, and when we criticise the West we’re the Russian trolls apparently…I feel sorry for American women and trans people but I really don’t give a shit if the US loses its place in the world. Good. No amount of condescending USAID ‘aid’ will atone for the deaths in Chile, Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Korea, Guatemala, Angola, Vietnam, Bolivia, Laos, Libya, East Timor and god knows how many other places.
There we go, speaking in collective terms. As a ‘westerner’ this is the multinationals’ doing, they’re busy golfing like them.
Sigh, every day I feel worse about living in the world
American presidents gonna America
not only him. he was just dumb enough to say it out loud.
I think that micharacterizes his evilness and intent. He’s specifically saying that free trade was supposed to be a good thing because it would allow exploitation but it’s not allowing enough exploitation for his tastes. Essentially he’s arguing against liberal economic colonialism to support fascist economic colonialism. And he doesn’t want those countries to ever gain any advantage.
Essentially he’s arguing against liberal economic colonialism to support fascist economic colonialism
I would have thought the Global South had this already figured out by now.
The Global South is far more developed in this regard and is consequently where most of the action is in the class war. They fight against comprador governments, anti-indigenous oppression, anti-worker policies with far more militancy and organization and popularity than anything in any OECD country. Of course, the people of the Global South are not politically monolithic and they also have liberals, monarchists, fascists, etc.
@[email protected] They do I’m sure, but not so sure about the American public.
it looks more and more they are just doing reagan all over again expecting it to work again in different circumstances…
