site: Woodrow Wilson Center
Lenta decadência Empire Império
news: US sanctions: Venezuela; North Korea; Iran; Russia; China; and half a hundred more
- news: Black votes
- news: Black Republicans,
- news: Latino votes
- news: Latino Republicans
- Secret Nuclear Strategy
- Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat New York Times Pentagon believes China’s stockpiles will rival the size and diversity of the United States’ and Russia’s over the next decade./ In the past, the likelihood that American adversaries could coordinate nuclear threats to outmaneuver the American nuclear arsenal seemed remote. But the emerging partnership between Russia and China, and the conventional arms North Korea and Iran are providing to Russia for the war in Ukraine have fundamentally changed Washington’s thinking. /
China’s nuclear force - the Pentagon’s estimates that China’s nuclear force would expand to 1,000 by 2030 and 1,500 by 2035, roughly the numbers that the United States and Russia now deploy.
North Korea Nuclear Force - Mr. Kim has doubled down, and now has more than 60 [nuclear] weapons, officials estimate, and the fuel for many more. That expansion has changed the nature of the North Korean challenge: When the country possessed just a handful of weapons, it could be deterred by missile defenses. But its expanded arsenal is fast approaching the size of Pakistan’s and Israel’s, and it is large enough that it could, in theory, coordinate threats with Moscow and Beijing.
"The New Junta in Niger Tells the United States to Pack Up Its War and Go Home
Posted on April 3, 2024 by Yves Smith
Yves here. This post by Nick Turse tells the very sorry tale of how US pretenses at counterterrorism in the Sahel not only made matters a lot worse but are now getting US forces run out of the region, now out of Niger. That also means Niger takes over our pricey base. I wonder if we will wind up not being able to extract all our kit."
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/the-new-junta-in-niger-tells-the-united-states-to-pack-up-its-war-and-go-home.html#:~:text=02/2024%20%2D%20Yves%20Smith-,The%20New%20Junta%20in%20Niger%20Tells%20the%20United%20States%20to%20Pack,will%20wind%20up%20not%20being%20able%20to%20extract%20all%20our%20kit.,-My%20impression%20is%20that
262 > 24 US DEINDUSTRIALIZATION
050324 Stoller - U.S. should destruction of its own automotive industrial base in favor of China's to reduce greenhous.
050324 "You can’t buy the Seagull in the US. But I bet you wish you could.
260 > 24 - USA 2024 ELECTION Agregator
06032024 - Super Tuesday: “7 things Super Tuesday just taught us about the November election” [Politico].
06032023 Trump (R): “Trump lawfare update” [Washington Examiner].
04032024 Trump can remain on 2024 primary ballots, US Supreme Court rules
02032024 Elections: Was Biden for the Economy?, By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. Originally published at Geopolitical Economy Report
261 > 24 US Economics
070324 "The Sham “The Economy Is Awful” Story, BY DEAN BAKER
. They refuse to let the strong labor market and rapid real wage growth get in their way.
02032024 - The Reality of Bidenomics: How Good Was Biden for the Economy?, By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. Originally published at Geopolitical Economy Report
AMLO’s push for environmental reforms an02032024gers Canadian mining sector Canadian Dimension
120324 "O poder imperial estadunidense mostra suas garras de barbárie
em vários momentos: se inaugura nas bombas atômicas, nas bombas de napalm no Vietnam, na crueza da tortura ensinada as ditaduras latino-americanas e, por fim, seu traço mais moderno o uso dos bloqueios econômicos e da lógica fiscal esmagando, como um torniquete de um torturador, as sociedades e os orçamentos estatais das sociedades subjugadas, sejam latino-americanas, africanas ou asiáticas e, no último período dos XX e já nos XXI, as sociedades europeias subdesenvolvidas" https://aterraeredonda.com.br/barbarie-manual-do-usuario-para-o-seculo-xxi/#:~:text=O%20poder%20imperial,sociedades%20europeias%20subdesenvolvidas
262 > 24 US DEINDUSTRIALIZATION
050324 Stoller - U.S. should destruction of its own automotive industrial base in favor of China's to reduce greenhous.
050324 "You can’t buy the Seagull in the US. But I bet you wish you could.
260 > 24 - USA 2024 ELECTION Agregator
06032024 - Super Tuesday: “7 things Super Tuesday just taught us about the November election” [Politico].
"From Colorado to Virginia, it was clear that the GOP’s down-ballot problems will only be exacerbated by Trump’s problems in the suburbs.
In Virginia, the former president lost suburbs like Alexandria and Arlington to Haley, along with the state capital of Richmond and city of Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia.
In Colorado, he lost Denver and Boulder. ‘He consistently loses the most educated counties in every state,’ said GOP pollster Christine Matthews. ‘In Virginia, this was definitely true, but it was true in South Carolina, too. And everywhere. … I don’t think he wins them back by talking about
- how much Black voters love his mug shot T-shirt or
- let Russia attack NATO allies who haven’t paid their dues.’
Trump set out to remake the GOP into more of a working-class party — and November could test whether trading white-collar voters for blue-collar ones is a winning strategy in swing states.” And: “But it was in Minnesota, which hasn’t gone for a Republican for president since Richard Nixon in 1972, where Biden saw a less surprising but more threatening setback. The ‘uncommitted’ option on the ballot there had as big a night as it did in Michigan, winning 19 percent of the vote with 89 percent counted. The state’s politically significant Somali population, concentrated around the Twin Cities, rebuked Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war…. But come this fall, Biden can hardly afford such a defection in the pivotal blue wall state.”
"From Colorado to Virginia, it was clear that the GOP’s down-ballot problems will only be exacerbated by Trump’s problems in the suburbs.
In Virginia, the former president lost suburbs like Alexandria and Arlington to Haley, along with the state capital of Richmond and city of Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia.
In Colorado, he lost Denver and Boulder. ‘He consistently loses the most educated counties in every state,’ said GOP pollster Christine Matthews. ‘In Virginia, this was definitely true, but it was true in South Carolina, too. And everywhere. … I don’t think he wins them back by talking about
- how much Black voters love his mug shot T-shirt or
- let Russia attack NATO allies who haven’t paid their dues.’
06032023 Trump (R): “Trump lawfare update” [Washington Examiner].
A useful summary, concluding “The reason for the Democratic panic is this: Some in the party think, sure, President Joe Biden is weak and his polls are terrible, but if he falters, there is always lawfare. We’ve thrown case after case against Trump. Surely one of them will work. Now, there has been a lot of movement with the big six cases. Five of them might not be resolved, or resolved in Biden’s favor, before the election. So it could be that the entire hopes of the Democratic Party and all those who seek to bring down Trump before Election Day rest with Bragg.” Bragg’s case is the Trump’s payments to a mistress: “Bragg[‘s] charges were weak. It’s really a bunch of misdemeanors that Bragg conjured into felonies through a legally questionable maneuver.” Seems like normal practice in New York.” And: “The other cases, bad as some of them are, got more respect and attention, and Bragg stepped into the background, offering to delay trying his case while the others went first. But now all those cases have encountered problems, and Bragg is steaming ahead to a March 25 trial date, less than three weeks away. It’s a bad case, but it’s a case.”
A useful summary, concluding “The reason for the Democratic panic is this: Some in the party think, sure, President Joe Biden is weak and his polls are terrible, but if he falters, there is always lawfare. We’ve thrown case after case against Trump. Surely one of them will work. Now, there has been a lot of movement with the big six cases. Five of them might not be resolved, or resolved in Biden’s favor, before the election. So it could be that the entire hopes of the Democratic Party and all those who seek to bring down Trump before Election Day rest with Bragg.” Bragg’s case is the Trump’s payments to a mistress: “Bragg[‘s] charges were weak. It’s really a bunch of misdemeanors that Bragg conjured into felonies through a legally questionable maneuver.” Seems like normal practice in New York.” And: “The other cases, bad as some of them are, got more respect and attention, and Bragg stepped into the background, offering to delay trying his case while the others went first. But now all those cases have encountered problems, and Bragg is steaming ahead to a March 25 trial date, less than three weeks away. It’s a bad case, but it’s a case.”
04032024 Trump can remain on 2024 primary ballots, US Supreme Court rules
02032024 Elections: Was Biden for the Economy?, By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. Originally published at Geopolitical Economy Report
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070324 "The Sham “The Economy Is Awful” Story, BY DEAN BAKER
FEBRUARY 26, 2024Photograph Source: photosteve101 – CC BY 2.0
The media are pushing the economy is terrible story pretty much 24-7. They refuse to let the strong labor market and rapid real wage growth get in their way. They seem to want everyone to think things are really bad, in spite of a 24-month stretch of below 4.0 percent unemployment and a sharp reduction in wage inequality since the pandemic" https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/26/314364/#:~:text=FEBRUARY%2026%2C%202024,since%20the%20pandemic
02032024 - The Reality of Bidenomics: How Good Was Biden for the Economy?, By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. Originally published at Geopolitical Economy Report
AMLO’s push for environmental reforms an02032024gers Canadian mining sector Canadian Dimension
China vs USA Imperial trade wars
050324 Still, China’s price advantage
deindustrialization
050324 Stoller - If the environmental movement is arguing the U.S. should destroy its own automotive industrial base in favor of China's to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then they will become a fringe and irrelevant group.vox.comWhy is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?2:01 PM · Mar 4, 2024https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1764697638492909636?t=oAiTThZ4mzhwWlooy0gznw&s=19
050324 "You can’t buy the Seagull in the US.
But I bet you wish you could.
A small hatchback around the size of a Mini Cooper, the Seagull is a fast-charging electric car and claims a range of up to 250 miles (at least according to its home country’s generous tests); BYD, its Chinese manufacturer, claims it can go from 30 percent to 80 percent charged in a half-hour using a DC plug. It’s hardly a luxury car but it’s well-equipped, with a power driver’s seat and cruise control. “If I were looking for an inexpensive commuter car … this would be perfect,” veteran car journalist John McElroy said after taking a drive.
The best part? Its base model costs about $10,700 in China. That’s about a third of the cost of the cheapest EV you can buy in the US. In South America, it’s a little pricier, but still fairly affordable, at under $24,000 for a top-trim version. Even in Europe, you can get an entry-level BYD for under €30,000.
These are absolutely screaming deals — exactly the kind of products that could turbocharge our transition away from gas and toward electric vehicles." https://www.vox.com/climate/2024/3/4/24087919/biden-tariff-chinese-ev-byd-battery-detroit#:~:text=You%20can%E2%80%99t%20buy,electric%20vehicles.
"As duas guerras em que o Ocidente se perdeu, por Rafael Poch, em Outras Palavras.Quem diria: as potências que até há pouco dominavam o cenário mundial agora estão isoladas, eticamente batidas e inseguras no terreno militar. Como isso se deu, tão rápido? Que brechas se abriram? Por que ainda não há o quê comemorar? " https://outraspalavras.net/geopoliticaeguerra/as-duas-guerras-em-que-o-ocidente-se-perdeu/#:~:text=As%20duas%20guerras,por%20Rafael%20Poch
[26/2 22:35] Iiiiii Socio PCO: Passando apenas pra compartilhar essa frase do Cmdt. Robinson Farinazzo: "A decadência norte-americana é irreversível, com o Biden é mais rápido, porém com o Trump, é mais divertido."
[26/2 22:40] Iiiiii Socio PCO: Obviamente a frase tem um conteúdo humorístico, mas segundo ele nem Bidem, nem Trump conseguirão reverter a crise histórica dos EUA. Com o Biden, o desfecho catastrófico ocorreria mais rapidamente. Já com o Trump, ocorreria da mesma forma, apesar das tentativas da direita de mudar alguns aspectos da economia, da política interna e externa, da cultura, etc. O fim do imperialismo está cada vez mais próximo.
[27/2 04:43] Vander Resende: Não vou polemizar, mas por essas e outras, prefiro evitar esse Cmdte.
"diga-me com quem andas/ que assiste
que te direi quem és "
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faZer humor com a queda do império que possivelmente levará a morte de dezenas de milhões de pessoas ou centenas ou bilhão
demonstrar falta de noção histórica sobre como Caem os impérios
possivelmente com biden o Império avança sua decadência lenta
enquanto com trump
o império demonstra estar em oseus estertores
com a exacerbação de um próton fascismo para fascismo
dos impérios que cairam no século xx
qual não sofreu a derrocada com um fascista/nazista no poder
só o império soviético
pois foi um projeto de tratamento de choque ultra-neoliberal
embora possamos considerar que nao houve aunda a derrocada do império soviético
mas um pouso mais suave
ai mebos para quem vê de fora
devido a perestroika e glasnost
mas que taovez o império Russo não tem atingido ainda o seu áudio e esteja longe dos seus criadores estertoresg
pois não se fragmentou está se tornando com pudim cada vez mais forte
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