@dannaners3@philippilk Only as long as the US military can thump heads to encourage purchasing those assets. If it were to lose that capacity their attractiveness might decline.
The smaller the State the more difficult it is to escape the domination of international capital and, therefore, the US. Ireland is independent in name but has little sovereignty left.
The British ruling class are, of course, abject loyalists to the US led capitalist order but this craven subservience is not a necessary feature of an independent Britain. Political figures as far apart as Harry Polit and Enoch Powell advocated for a sovereign Britain keeping its distance from the US, though at this point something close to a revolution would probably be needed.
Not really, Britain won an empire because it developed first a more productive economic system, capitalism. Much of the empire was destroyed indeed lucrative but lots of it was a drain. Britain’s problem was that its ruling class preferred deindustrialisation and immigration as a method to suppress the trend towards increasing the working class share of national wealth to such a degree that it hallowed the economy and the nation. Pretty much the standard playbook from an imperial elite.
@williameijer The impetus to universal competition across all spheres of life was in fact a driving force of the early the socialist movement, pre-Marx (who was of course influenced by them). They consciously counterposed “co-operation” to “competition”
@Casey5122dark Irish people are much less than 58% of the global population therefore we are over represented! The logic of the open borders philosophy must condemn such blatant discrimination against the global majority.
@PartySammael It does have one thing to do with working class socialism: it exists to discredit it by mere association. They’re just the tools of the ruling class while their subjective radicalism is a sign of their stupidity.
@OdinTruth@MorgothsReview Trotskyist, not mainstream communist. The latter in power were almost comical in their zeal for preserving their nations. All undone when overthrown by pro-western liberals, although China remains staunchly patriotic and communist.
@QuaeroBooks The 2014 coup in Ukraine that ignited the present war was instigated by western supported neo-Nazis killing anti-government protesters which the west blamed on the moderately pro-Russian government
@QuaeroBooks Chemical weapon attacks were falsely blamed on the Assad government in 2013. Prior to that, repeated terrorist attacks on the police were reported as peaceful protest.