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What's Standing in the Way of Worker Power? Hint: it's the Workers · Mechonomist Podcast

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to do a bit of an exercise which is to take the moral and ethical beliefs out of the equation and look at what's going on in the globe today and see what the strategic parts of what's going on in the world today are.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Hamas is immoral, Israel is immoral, Russia is immoral, Ukraine is immoral, China is immoral, whatever.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: What are the strategic parts of it?
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: To me it looks like a trap for the West.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Russia invades Ukraine, baits the United States and NATO into dumping resources into Ukraine to defeat Russia.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: it's a stalemate Hamas attacks Israel second front of the war brings the West in to support Israel and that's going to be a stalemate third front of the war China invades Taiwan which has not happened yet now we're fighting a three-front war
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: all over the globe and we're fighting against states and non-state actors that absolutely hate us.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile at home we have people trying to have coups, we have a left-wing that is increasingly dissatisfied with
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: the center and the right, and we have increasing social unrest in the west at home.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: So we're dumping money into Ukraine, we're dumping money into Israel, and we're about to dump money into Taiwan.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: We're stretched thin.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like a trap.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like that non-western actors are setting a trap to bring down the American empire.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Who's right in this?
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it fucking matters.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Because the West cannot win a war in China, a war in the Middle East, and a war in Europe.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: This happens to empires.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: They get stretched thin.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: They have tentacles out all over their sphere of influence.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: and they get stretched in.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's 800 military, American military bases all across the globe.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: There's only 170 something countries.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that our leadership, the leadership of the West is making very unwise decisions about how to govern the globe.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the wisest decision would be to step back
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Pull back from Ukraine.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: Pull back from Israel.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Pull back from China.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: And let these people fight these little battles out before they become really big battles.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because the West can't win a really big battle.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Just period.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: There's only so many resources that we have.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: and we've already shown that we can't win in Ukraine and if we can't win in Ukraine we definitely can't win a three-foot war all across the globe.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: So take the morals out of it.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Just take the morals completely out of it and look at it strategically and strategically it is a bad deal for the West.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: So step back, pull back the military and call for peace.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: That is the best strategic path.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: I doubt it will happen, but that is the best strategic path.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'll see y'all later.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Peace y'all.