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Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows
(www.independent.co.uk)
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The US had the USSR as a direct competitor, but it also had a thousand anti-colonial independence movements that were tearing away the fabric of the old European empires, which the US had intended to inherit.
When the USSR failed, the US moved on to try and pick off all these smaller regional adversaries. And it's this endless campaign to recolonize the Global South that's described as "upward influence".
Americans can just stop the wars. This won't end the bleeding, but it can be the beginning of the end.
We can kick out our own despots and return to the bargaining table. We can pay reparations and turn our bad actors over to the ICC.
We can reform if we want to do so.
We don't want to. But we could.
I think we would want to if people were adequately educated and aware of their power. The trick is how to accomplish that in a country which is actively hostile towards education and working class empowerment. Unfortunately, the only answer I've found is, "slowly and gradually."
It's a real snarl, no doubt.