The capitalists have always had control of governments within capitalism. States are not distinct from the ruling class, but an extension. What we are seeing is not a shift from capitalism to neofeudalism, but the consequences of the dying stages of capitalism before socialism. Capitalism has decayed and is dying due to monopolization and centralization of capital, and due to imperialism, but these same conditions prep capitalism for revolution and collective ownership and planning, into socialism.

The US doesn’t have the industrial capacity, there’s a difference between currency and the actual physical industrialization needed to maintain a proxy war.

The lead developers of Lemmy are communists. This is not “dead wrong.” Further, the communist instances are older than most of the right-wing instances. You’re free to complain about communists all you want, there are instances where that’s the norm, but there are instances where the opposite is the norm, like the one you’re visiting right now.

You’re on a platform made by communists, there are a lot of us here. Deliberately breaking the rules does get your comments removed.

Heartwarming.

Very cool.

Lemmy.ml is more broadly federated than sh.itjust.works, its users get exposed to more broad viewpoints and a more complete vision of the broader Lemmy. Its admins and a large portion of moderators and users may be Marxists, but it’s less of an echo chamber than instances that align with western consensus and ban dissent against that consensus.

Most users on Lemmy.ml can’t escape the liberal viewpoint even if they tried as hard as they could, while most users on the more liberal instances can comfortably live their lives without ever engaging with Marxism.

I also have no idea why you expect this article to be downvoted because it’s on Lemmy.ml, genuinely.

Good to see solidarity between socialist nations. Hopefully Cuba’s contemporary struggles post-COVID can be overcome and they can get back on their feet, steadily progressing.

People will defederate from Lemmy.ml because someone posted a news article going over oreshnik? I think if people want to genuinely understand the millitary balance of power in the modern era, a firm understanding of missile production and technology is a key aspect of that. Oreshnik, as the article suggests, blurs the line between ballistic missiles and tactical (not strategic) nukes, without going nuclear, which is why it’s significant. Other countries with competent missile programs likely have similar technologies, but we haven’t really seen many revealed to the public like oreshnik has been.

Yep, plus the DPRK has an interest in selling some of its missiles and getting troop training in a real combat scenario. The US isn’t capable of sanctioning the DPRK any more than they already have been, so ironically this means the DPRK doesn’t have to care as much how the west sees it.

Are you surprised that Marxists are on a thread on an instance with a lot of Marxists?

Sounds good!

Go for it, people need to know.

“Orcs” were based on asiatic features, similar to the Mongol armies. The association with “orcs” is based on ethnicity, driving an image of an ugly, warlike species with no regard for life.

This is genuine racism, holy shit. “Simple minded orcs?” Blaming the conflict on the inherent intellectual inferiority of the asiatic slavs, who you call “orcs” due to their asiatic features? This is straight up WWII Nazi propaganda levels of racism.

I do, actually.

The US is still the hegemon, and unlike Russia it doesn’t have a developed industrial base, Russia does relatively fine just trading with its own trading partners, but the US is decaying rapidly as a consequence of the failings of imperialism. The EU isn’t far behind the US either in a race to crumbling.

The EU is fully dependent on the modern system of US Imperialism. They move in lock-step with US interests at a geopolitical level. This isn’t US exceptionalism, the US is the global Hegemon but at the same time it’s also decaying and dying. The US is not at all like Russia, the US depends entirely on international exploitation while Russia depends on internal exploitation and their own domestic production.

The US has always been at the helm of NATO. The US Empire is the reason NATO exists, the EU is thoroughly vassalized and subservient to the US. If the US was kicked out of NATO (lol), NATO would crumble, and the EU would be forced to either trade more with Russia or China to make up for the utter loss of their position in the western imperial system. The EU cannot stand on its own, it depends on imperialism, and currently relies on the US sphere of influence to perpetuate itself.

NATO with 0 US arms or millitary power wouldn’t be nearly as effective. The EU could have its own treaty, but it would be entirely limited in capability.