Like, Xi coming out in a military uniform declaring the official establishment of the fourth international and an open invite to all current BRICS members, war against Israel, and a fatwa against the uh imperial powers (fuck off fbi).

Or maybe Xi steps down to be replaced by motherfucking mao-shining

sicko-wistful

  • You know, how about we wish for a radical flank effect thing.

    You know, even in Cold War times, the Soviet Union initially didn’t help for shit much. One of its key driving forces to pro-Soviet intervention was, really, its more revolutionary yet weaker smaller militant partners dragged them along, like Cuba in Latin America, or China in East Asia, regarding the Korean War.

    The thing is, we don’t have such radical forces, domestic or international, to push more revolutionary goals

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Most people want a confortable status quo, China has this, they successfully updated to the XXIst century with a big cool revolution and now they’re interested in enjoying life under the current better-yet-imperfect system

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    During the first cold war, the US made a successful rhetorical pitch by framing capital and its institutions as the calm, rules-based approach to international relations. Despite how much that is not actually the way the US empire operates when rubber hits the road, it has appeal because broadly that’s what people want from international institutions. They want calm. They want to be told that level heads are prevailing, that tomorrow is going to look like today.

    After the last few decades (and especially with Trump making waves), that desire is still there but more and more people recognize that the US cannot, and has not, delivered. Calm boring BRICS, quietly spinning up its wheels, can make (and maybe even fulfill) that promise.

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    That’s the problem with “Do Nothing, Win”. You get addicted to doing nothing.

    I’m kind of only half-joking. Reality is China is on a guaranteed course to become the world superpower, I don’t suppose they’re eager to change course.