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America Is Deindustrializing Europe

compactmag.com America Is Deindustrializing Europe

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

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Step 1. War in Ukraine -> Decouple Europe from Russia.

Step 2. War in Niger -> Decouple Europe from their African colonies.

Step 3. War in Taiwan -> Decouple Europe from China.

Step 4. ?
- Step 0. Brexit -> Decouple Europe from Terf island
- Step 4 is recreating feudalism and making everyone give their lord the grain
slowly turning their allies in the from core to semi-perifery countries
- We've lost our prior frontier, but business development is working on a new one.
  
  finance capital knows no boundaries, therefore it is all a frontier to be captured
I'm sure this will go exactly as planned for the US and its no industrial infrastructure. This certainly won't drive Europe to buy things from China.
- Europe is the most cucked continent, they're just going to do fascism again and align even harder with the US
- You seriously sit there thinking the West, and the US specifically, has no industrial infrastructure?
  
  Wait, what is this instance? Am I supposed to be in on some joke?
  
  Yes bro, the US totally has all of the industrial infrastructure needed to supply 100% of its own needs as well as 100% of Europe's needs. The US hasn't significantly shrunken its industry, the rust belt doesn't exist and the Midwest is entirely full of successful union factory workers, and the US definitely isn't disproportionately the largest importer of goods on the planet.
  
  Clearly you're just not familiar with hyperbole. I don't literally mean that the US has absolutely no industrial infrastructure whatsoever, I'm being cynical and criticising the idea that the US will be successful in its ability to deliver the goods necessary to capture the entire European market for virtually everything.
  
  Deindustrialising Europe for the purpose of forcing Europe to buy everything from the US will not work when the US cannot export anywhere near enough to meet European demand, nor are American capitalists willing to rapidly scale up manufacturing on the level required to even attempt to do so. This will only lead to Europe finding other trade partners with the capacity to do so, such as China.
Autocannibalism intensifies.
Yes, deindustrialize yourself and all your allies, I'm sure that'll do you nothing but good when push comes to shove against China :sicko-yes:
Europe has been doing a pretty good job of doing it itself no?

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