While people in the United States are losing their sh*t over Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, one of the biggest strikes against neoliberalism in the world is happening in India.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
- from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.
While the U.S. and all of Europe react in horror to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the first, second, fourth, tenth and twelfth most-populated nations in Asia feel very different. It really doesn't matter whether you agree with these nations or not. The sheer size and proximity of these nations require respect.
The least surprising is China.
This is what happens when your planets government is run by the rich fraudsters. They are all the same. This guy is one of the good guys, the You Tuber whose channel it is, doesn't understand what he's being told.
WORK in Progress (WIP)
I recently read the books mentioned here, found them to be essential reads, and also find it amazing how the UK and US seem to have an infinite ability to whitewash our own recent past and the implications of same.
Caracas is heavily in debt to Moscow, and with U.S. sanctions, no ability to pay it back.
So Caracas is looking to cut a deal.
Something/Someone Old
Venezuela only has one big export - oil - and almost no one willing to risk American sanctions in order to buy it. Europe won't defy us, and neither will much of Latin America.
But one nation you probably don't think about will dare to risk sanctions.
It appears that India is falling out of Washington's sphere of influence.
