Dedollarization would happen.
It will be painful for countries which are vulnerable and ill prepared.
I honestly think there's a good chance it will happen soon. Trump is speed running "how to dismantle the US power and influence in one presidential term".
I am convinced he is a total Putin puppet and the only reason it doesn't always seem that way, is to be able to deny those allegations.
Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.
It's hilarious how dumb this is.
I also don't know exactly what the next step is.
Obviously, protesting and civil disobedience.
Looking at historical precedents, I also think targeted sabotage should be part of it. Nothing like the Reichstag fire or the assassination of Ernst vom Rath that would fuel a civil war.
In WW2, our resistance performed targeted sabotage on (for example) rail lines, pipelines and electrical networks that did not hurt anyone, but which did weaken the German war effort.
One big disadvantage compared to WW2 is the massive surveillance state.
During slavery there was also the underground railroad. I would definitely set up a system like that to bring targeted activists to Canada. You really don't want to lose your intelligentsia. Let them provide resistance from Canada.
I hope others have better ideas on effective tactics though.
For anyone interested, there are multitudes of videos on YouTube showing commie blocks and why they are bad, so don't feel bad for focusing on work.
Anyone interested can find the information with an easy search.
Indeed. There is a hierarchy.
Commie blocks are better than tents.
But proper social housing is better than commie blocks.
And proper social housing mixed with middle class owner-occupied housing in the same neighborhoods and even within the same buildings is the best.
Your first point just proves that Trump has control over Netanyahu, while Netanyahu had power over Biden/Harris.
I'm not denying that Trump is pro-Israel and has financial interests.
But where Biden was cucked by Netanyahu, Trump definitely has the upper hand over Netanyahu.
That's what I mean by beholden. Who has the power over who.
Then explain how Trump got the ceasefire deal that Biden couldn't get?
It's quite likely Democrats would have won the election with a ceasefire in place and that's why Biden tried his best to get it before the summer. He used the UN and put pressure on Netanyahu by withholding some weapons, but his AIPAC leash was too tight and Netanyahu and the Republicans humiliated him in front of the world multiple times, so he had to give up.
Trump doesn't give a shit about Palestinians. But he isn't as controlled by AIPAC as Biden was. He has Elon Musk and his own cult. He can tell Netanyahu to eat rocks without losing his power base.
For one, we already give it away. The biggest customers of ASML are not European as it is.
Second, it will bring in billions for the European economy and it will allow ASML to better hold its leading position in the long-term, since China won't need to compete with ASML. That's beneficial for the European economy
Third, how does it hurt us?
Progressive politics has been infiltrated by Zionist lobbyists from the Harry Truman days. Much more so than Republicans.
LBJ was a democrat who accepted the USS Liberty, while Reagan was the one who actually stopped the carnage in Lebanon, calling it a Holocaust.
Believe it or not, but Trump is actually less beholden to Israel than Biden. Trump and Republicans are actually more beholden to Saudi-Arabia, which is why MBS could quite easily get them to stop the Gaza genocide.
As to why, it's mostly due to the Holocaust narrative and the idea that Palestine was empty and Jews needed a homeland.
Younger progressives know better, but this propaganda was immensely effective in the past among liberals and progressives.
Today, it's mostly money and the influence they have in the party through people like Schumer, Blinken, etc.
Look how AIPAC recently primaried Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman. And a few years ago they also primaried a progressive Jewish (!) congressman who was critical of the apartheid.
If the USA is gonna be a prick, then I propose we give Russia and China EUV technology in exchange for peace in Ukraine.
MAGAts in Montana just love Mercury poisoning. They fully endorse Trump's actions. So I think the goal is primarily to get them their Mercury fix.
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Once you start looking at reparations for slavery and colonialism, you quickly realize it's a debt that the former colonizers will never be able to repay.
And to be honest, for wrongs that were committed over a 350+ year period, it doesn't make sense to repay a debt within a single lifetime.
So I agree with you, something would be better than nothing.
But it is important to make an inventory on what would be justly owed and what has been paid back to date and in what form. Perhaps this process should also last 350 years.