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Is the state of geopolitics under going a significant change in the last few months?
It feels like in the last few months, things have been accelerating. I’m seeing symptoms, signals, and shifts in the above list. It feels like before the year is out we may have one of those weeks where decades happen.
Am I missing something? Am I seeing something?
There are so many articles and they are making absolutely ZERO noise in any of my social media feeds. It feels like half white supremacy and half deliberate forum sliding.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001469289/mass-protests-going-on-in-five-african-countries
https://qz.com/protests-rock-south-africa-kenya-tunisia-and-nigeria-1850242880
https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/03/19/mother-of-all-protests-400-million-people-to-shutdown-african-countries-over-cost-of-living-increases/
Oh yeah, and I guess Algeria? Algeria is pretty cozy with Russia/China.
Mali.
Honduras recently established relations with the PRC and no longer recognise the ROC.
Former ROC leader Ma Ying Jiu visited the mainland as well lol.
I think that encapsulates most of it, and it appears any pessimism concerning the revolutionary potential of Europe has been validated. They likely will go down with the ship due to their proximity to the imperial core.
Do not forget the recent victories of the U.S. labor movement in general, in spite of the impending railway strike that was stopped…