In this thread we make social political future predictions or estimations of what we think will happen in the future.
I’ll start with this first post.
As much as I despise and hate communists I’m starting to believe that the Chinese are going to win this trade war where the United States will be the horrible loser within it all. It very well may be the catalyst that pushes the United States economy into collapse and destroys the U.S. dollar as the world’s premier reserve currency. As a revolutionary as much as I hate the communists [I have nothing against the Chinese people themselves.] I’m OK with this outcome. It will push the United States into chaos overnight lighting the revolutionary spirit to take hold of the entire nation. Very few people know or understand that ironically it was Chinese government money that bailed out Wallstreet and the United States in 2008. This trade war in fact is being waged because since then the Chinese have had much financial economic leverage over the United States since that time and of course the United States government itself has resented that fact ever since.
I understand the principles behind the trade war but alas this is what we call too little, too late. If the United States waged a trade war against China in the 1980s where the United States had all the financial economic leverage at the time there would be the chance of success on our part, however our government leaders decided to wait until 2016 at the last moment after being bailed out by China in 2008 to initiate this at a time where we have no economic financial leverage whatsoever contrary to popular belief within our nation. Basically the United States is a heavily economic wounded nation lashing out breathing its last dying gasps of empire. Now the scary thing is that the only leverage the United States has at its disposal is its military which given if things become desperate enough like any other historical dying empire might try to violently lash out militarily against the rest of the world just to save face. If this happens where a new world war begins I don’t think anybody has to be told how dangerous that can be for everyone. China for instance has a military and economic alliance with Russia, it also appears the European nation states are warming up to both Russia and China distancing themselves away from Washington D.C.
China’s trade with the United States only accounts for 13% of their economy meaning once again contrary to popular belief in the United States the Chinese could really care less about losing the United States as a trading partner considering their trading is increasing everywhere else on the planet with other nations. Meanwhile there is over 1500 American companies stationed or headquartered in China, what this means rather amusingly is that the crony capitalist United States needs the communist Chinese more than they need us. After all, a majority of American manufacturing or production exists solely in the Chinese mainland itself staffed by Chinese workers.
[Where simultaneously unemployed and underemployed American workers are eating themselves to death, suffering from drug addictions, or dying by suicide in droves because if it hasn’t been made abundantly clear yet, the United States government doesn’t give two flying fucks about its own workers or people where it will side with international venture capitalists no matter what in the name of accumulated capital profit.]
What will be interesting if we avoid a world war that is if the Chinese yuan or some other equivalent becomes the new defacto global default reserve currency. No matter what happens there is going to be much pain, misery, and suffering in the United States. In all honesty we deserve every bit of it for shooting ourselves in the foot and savagely destroying the American working class putting American workers through all different kinds of punishment for several decades now. What we need in this country is a violent working class revolution and I have a feeling we’re going to get one real soon.