• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    The CIA was created to outsmart Russians and they’re shitting their butt-asses when that’s tested in the first post-Soviet war against Russians.

    The neoliberal ideology of thatcher and reagan to dismantle the state and privatise literally everything has led to this. This was fine up until inter-capitalist conflict has emerged but now we’re seeing how a strong state with more control is more effective at war.

    Inter-capitalist conflict might be the thing that pushes them back towards older methods.

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      The problem is that once you rip out all the copper wire, it’s hard to put it back, ya know? There isn’t some big neoliberalism dial that they can just nudge back a bit, the infrastructure and resources they would need are either gone or too hollowed out to be useful. They need some new option instead, which is what’s driving this global experimentation with new neo-fascist projects.