Wolff Responds: Ukraine War Reshapes World Politics 

there is no democracy under true capitalism

The US regime's political system is more a game of musical chair; with only 1 chair in play; with 2 players. It either the Devil or Satan taking turns occupying that chair.

We are their duped population, nothing more. 😮

Well said

same. sick sick nation.....so very much into war, making $ on war (heres lookin at you cheney bush clinton obama and on and on....) ntm rows of war toys for kids in any given toy store kinda sums it up. and the endless guns domestically. pathetic. tragic nation.

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what.. how what why?

Wolff fans buy his marxist bullshit. 3:53 Wolff it doesn't work never will. I suggest you folks listening could google Peter zeihan for a realistically astute demographic analysis

Well said and well OBSERVED

World War Z, indeed.

Ahmm... You're on the internet. You gotta use layman terms, for less eloquent idiots like me LOL

Be specific. Exactly who is dealing death? Perhaps you mean Putin who simply marched into Ukraine and took over Crimea? When nobody did too much about it, first of all because Ukraine couldn't do much and second of all because all of Europe and the United States wanted to avoid direct confrontation with Putin, he then went in to take the rest? Is that what you mean? Are you advocating some kind of negotiation in which Ukraine gives up territory for a cease fire only to have Putin retool his ragged ass army and try again later? Or do you accuse Ukraine of invading Russia? Of being Nazified? Of wanting to be a NATO member? Are any of those things reasons to try to take over the country? Ukraine did not threaten Russia. Both countries have Nazi elements as does the United States and most of Europe. Nazis are a disease that recurs it seems. NATO wasn't going to admit Ukraine anyhow but now it will if this damned war ends and Ukraine is free. To remind you, Ukraine threw out a Russified puppet leader. Corruption was an issue as it is in Russia, I might add. They had an election. They had separated from the former Soviet hegemony as had other now independent nations. Nato denied Ukraine membership for two reasons. First they were insufficiently militarized to meet NATO's standards and second because they didn't want a conflict with nuclear armed and aggressive Russia. Well, after a lot of war, NATO has gotten more expansive. Putin stepped in a pile of **** and he has got to live with the smell. But Ukraine did not start this war. Putin ALWAYS said that he wanted to reconstruct the Socialist hegemony. Oh if only Socialism were the issue. It isn't. Imperialism and power are the issue here. All the misery, death, propaganda and ruin is Putin's fault. When you say it's a mess you are correct but whose mess are you referring to? Cryptic remarks and generalizations are not helpful in understanding what is happening in Ukraine.

The madness of crowds

Couldn't have said it better. But that bully is more dangerous to the other aspiring hegemons: the feeling they have about their almost " God given' mission to "spread democracy " , convinced their power make the rest of the world better and happy and more orderly, is kinda frightening. This messianic belief is comparable to what the religious extremism such as Isis abide to. Therefore , the part of "soul searching' the large portion of the world would want from the bully , would never materialize

Why the hell do we, the people, have to choose between repressive and plutocratic capitalist hegemonies? That's like asking if you want to be imprisoned in this prison or that one? I reject both capitalist hegemonies. BRICS won't tread workers better than the Western alliance does.

Evil self- riteous US government

Beautifully, perfectly said!

​@@xena6894 I don't get the sense that the new world order is motivated by a messianic mission. And neither was the old. They might have used "spreading democracy" as their propaganda narrative, but that was never their real motivation. It was always about self-enrichment and control of resources.

It is important to speak up even when you suffer for it. Doing so prevents the fanatics from proceeding to the next step of fanaticism... cleansing.

@@blogintonblakley2708 well when you put it that way I guess you’re right

@@fuckyou11213 Being a dissident is a serious responsibility. I commend your efforts.

They are afraid of truth because they afraid no longer able to live like what they getting used to.

If you could turn just one person around from their brainwashed way, your effort is rewarded.

Brilliant write up. One of the ways through which this economic rent is extracted is the seigniorage of the US dollar. The privilege of the US dollar being the global reserve currency allows it to export its inflation to other countries after printing recklessly to buy up its own treasuries aka quantitative easing which artificially inflates its economy. To solve the resulting inflation, the US Fed increases its policy rates to extort the world and force a recession (aka demand destruction) which enables US corporations to buy up resources for cheap. This leads to drastic depreciation of currencies around the world. For countries in the global south specifically, with the help of globalist institutions like the World Bank & the IMF and their “structural adjustment/neoliberal ” policies, countries become trapped in a debt cycle through the privatization of profitable SOEs. With a loss of revenue to fund critical infrastructure and budget deficits, countries turn to the Eurobond markets which is dominated by US banks and European FIs. With the backing of unlimited money printing capacity of the US Fed and artificially low costs of funding (QE), they buy up resources and SOEs for cheap in distressed economies and countries lose their economic sovereignty. These countries are then forced to implement policies that go against their national interests with threats of economic sanctions. Welcome to neocolonialization of the 21st century.

Well put

Perfect

And they’re still not changing course.

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You hit the nail on the head. We don't have free markets anymore. They are part of the wealth extraction process - run for and by the 1%. It has erupted into neo-feudalism. Our governments are there for the 1% and our democracy only gives lip service. We elect the same types and just shuffle faces. Our leaders are all for sale as long as it doesn't look too obvious.

Precisely

U$ should have done what you mentioned "improve the nation and the world" but TOO BAD because the situation now is like a river of NO return!

Johnathan,- Your last paragraph is what Vladimir Putin has been saying for at least twenty years.

@@tonybenn1000 So have I. He probably took it from me, I'm sure.

And that McDonalds head office is in DC.

many, many did.

so very well said. another way to say it: usa s endless wars, exploitation of x y z worldwide, endless elevating corporations & top percenters to status of kings/mafia lords......within a few years a lions share of large u.s. cities look like jakarta (read: endless homeless crime & massive margin between top percenters and rest of the (impoverished) nation. tragic.

International Rule-based Order==>Uncle Sam makes the rules, you follow his orders.

It is a competitor. Since the USA stands for freedom and democracy they, naturally, do everything in their power to stop competition and rig the game in their favour! smh

Very correct

And Rothschild and their lookalikes are funding both sides of the war as usual

@@peanut0brain You could not be more wrong. It is the US/EU who is funding the Ukraine side. Russia is self funding themselves.

You don't use dollars anymore?

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Yes. Prof Wolff is a clear communicator.

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There is no shortage, because the induced inflation reduces demand. Currently, governments are cutting taxes or offer additional subsidies to prevent a public outcry. But sooner or later, the prices will have to be paid by the people.

Let me give you an answer from India. This country buys a lot of oil from Russia, but little of that goes to domestic consumption. A few oligarchs refine it and resell it to Europe, thus making their money (this is an understatement). The oil travels for longer, thus wrecking the environment more. Europe pays more than it would have before. Russia has rupees that it can't spend. No one wins except oligarchs and US defence contractors. Anti-west sentiment calls this a failure of the west, and it is, but no one else benefits as well. I will confess to you, as a brown man in an erstwhile colonized country (whose repercussions can be felt today), I too harbor anti European sentiment (I don't defend it, it hurts me the most). But it would be an untruth to say that the Global South is benefitting. Aka, the world is ever increasingly fucking itself.

​@@HominisLupis I feel your pain!

@@helengarrett6378 And I appreciate you, ma'am.

OPEC+ that's the question

What facts are you referring to? Please enumerate.

Silly troll.

there are none

Compete might not be the right word, rather, to free themselves from dollar hegemony. Google and read article US Hegemony and its Perils.

Each country involved in BRICS uses it's own currency when trading on the international market. This is a radical departure from the petrodollar decades, that had all countries using the dollar to trade... especially for oil. This is how you get rid of a unipolar world. You allow everyone an even opportunity to trade without requiring that they pay a financial tribute to the USA.

@@andersaskjrgensen5468 This is not true. Each country in BRICS uses it's own currency. The point is to replace the unipolar world with a multipolar world. So it's not replacing one unipolar currency with another.. it's doing away with the whole idea of having one reserve currency.

Change happens

They drove Russia into China's arms, reduced Russia's dependents on the west and nearly bankrupted most of Europe.

Good question 🤔

Not necessarily against just Russia... more like the USA is losing it's privileged position as the world's reserve currency. This is having a detrimental effect on the dollar because it means we can't draw on unlimited debt. Which means that cheap debt is a thing of past in the USA... and interest rates have to go up. Meaning inflation, recession and ultimately depression on the economic front, as the truly massive debt bubble that we've enjoyed as a result of the petrodollar goes... pop. We see this happening in the real estate market as Blackrock falls apart. Blackrock is a real estate bank and it is so heavily leveraged in property that any increase in interest rates drives down the value of the company. Which is why it's defaulting. Trillion dollar corporations going down is a great indication that yes, the USA is losing the economic war. We currently have 29% of the world's governments under sanctions. Sanctions that are now isolating the USA instead of forcing others to the USA's political will.

Haha no.

Denial is strong in this one.

Fascism is the opposite to socialism. It never matters how well a socialist government is doing. Fascism is a sickness that will try to gain power.

😅😊 You are thinking exactly how I see the situation ❤

The difference between slaves that can read and slaves that cannot? None.