It's really simple:

Unless you really love deepthroating #Trump's #boot and suck his dick whilst kissing the ring, you don't do #business in the #USA - period!

• The #US is ruled by it's #oligarch who has less patience than a spoiled rich brat who never got to learn to accept "No!" for an answer but also who can't be assed to remember or follow his own terms, which makes him worse than the worst cases of "ADHD" I could ever remember, let alone imagine.

This makes the #US a worse juristiction than "P.R." #China, #Russia and even #Somalia when it comes to #business because in those places the heads up top will generally leave businesses alone (As long as they pay their taxes / bribes / protection in time and don't meddle with politics!), whereas #Trumpism combines all the disadvantages of #fascism, #StateCapitalism, #warlordism and general #LateStageCapitalism without any of their "merits" for those who want to do business.

• Add to that the audacity of the US government to want to enforce it's laws and terms to businesses and assets overseas via #embargos that only serve #blackmail of #economies, and one gets only reasons to not wanting to do busiess there, even if we ignore the sinking net income and life expectancy of #USians...

The only way to fix this is to treat the US like #NorthKorea and completely isolate it: politically, socially, economically, militarily and technologically!

• Anything else is just normalizing #Neoimperialism at this point!

#commentary #sarcasm #politics #USpol #economy #tech

@incoherentmumblings @akshatrathi not really.

#China suffered over a century of #Colonialism, #Warlordism, #CivilWar, Japan basically genociding huge parts of it's civilians in it's expansionism, Civil War and #Maoism until the #CCP got their shit together.

• It's kinda like how people think Post-#WW2 #Germany got a "miraculous recovery" when in fact it's just "where a lot of rubble is, there's a lot of need to employ people to clear up and rebuild!"...

Same as #Somalia today and many other places that git ravaged by conflicts but stabilized.

• China's #Oligarchy exists and #inequality too is great.

It's just that the "P.R." China had ~70 years of uninterrupted shouting of "Sit down, you will enjoy our progress!" and having everyone who didn't agree either "reeducated" or forcibly disappeared.

• And #Beijing does have a tight grip on #media. People there jist don't know better!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_UcAVWQs8

@micchiato @scott Case in point: #SystemChangeNitClimateChange requires to abolish #capitalism first.

Without any structures able.to enforce laws, you'll emd up with #Anarchocapitalism and #Warlordism (see #Somalia -again)!

@micchiato Also true #Anarchism is inherently impossible as people will inevitably setup structures...

May it be #communalism & #syndicatism (most #Communés and self-organized housing as well as all the #Kibbuzim) or #tribalism and #warlordism (#Somalia) or whatever.

Even if we'd descent and devolutionize into family clans - which would essentially mean downgrading at least 15.000 years in #progress and #technology - we'd still have #Power #structures in place even if it's some "elder" and their (young, strong and easy to manipulate) followers wielding clubs and beating everyone into either submission or death if they disobey...

Like that doesn't require much imagination, because it did happen by archeological findings and it still does happen today (see #DomesticViolence)...

China's Ideological Affinity With Russia Is Over

Much has been made of China’s growing #authoritarianism under Xi, but it is hard to imagine that Xi looks upon the degraded spectacle of Russia with anything less than quiet #contempt.

Xi has famously required members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to study and derive lessons from the demise of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. His own synoptic assessment of how that erstwhile superpower collapsed is that it lost its nerve, meaning it didn’t have the guts to fight to defend and sustain its own system.

#Putin clearly has the #will to keep #fighting for power, but in the view of Xi, can Putin be said to have a #system #worth #fighting for? China’s own history from the mid-20th century until now says otherwise.

One of the foundational principles of Mao Zedong, whose victory against Nationalists in a long civil war led to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, was that the country’s #military must at all times remain under the clear and unambiguous #control and at the service of the CCP. Every leader since Mao has clung to this line, and none more so than Xi, who has doubled down.

But China’s history holds even older reasons to feel repelled by Russia’s unrelenting decay under Putin. For decades prior to the CCP victory in 1949, the country was constantly riven by #warlordism.

Here is where the spectacle of today’s Russia comes most sharply into critical focus. As if pursuing history in reverse, Putin has increasingly relied on warlords and #militias to shore up his power and pursue strategic goals.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/30/china-russia-ideological-affinity-ukraine-war-putin-xi/