• monarch@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I don’t understand the idea that the global super power collapsing will only be bad for the citizens and the neighbors that I have seen some people say. Unless China/the EU steps up right now millions will starve in developing nations and 100s of thousands more will die from preventable diseases.

    Government spending is a lot of countries is going to have to be taken out of other programs to strengthen lacking military power and kick start their own R&D efforts.

    Global oil prices will rise since it will basically become a complete monopoly. And many countries that have lent money to the US will likely suffer as well besides that economically.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      millions will starve in developing nations and 100s of thousands more will die from preventable diseases.

      It’s also literally in-line with the faux-left accelerationists’ dogma:

      Phase 1 - Make the world worse by helping the far-Right take over governments. This will lead to increased suffering domestically and internationally. Phase 2 - ? Phase 3 - Working class solidarity and uprising resulting in socialist utopia.

      (Phase 2, historically, likely involves either a few centuries of oppression, and/or global armed conflict and genocide, but that’s a sacrifice that they’re willing to make.)