Knowledge, ideology, and real socialism in our times

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US war against Iran to contain China?

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Political cartoon in the Chinese English-language newspaper Global Times

Wars and rumors of war

     Billy Bob, host of the YouTube program Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline, sent me his piece making a number of predictions concerning the near future of world dynamics.  He predicts, in essence, that the USA will soon launch a war against Iran in order to contain China.

     Billy Bob bases his prediction on the assumption that “Western global hegemony perceives itself to be under threat from China’s rapidly growing economic power” plus a second assumption that “the US will implement their plan of containment against China, sooner rather than later, rather than resign itself to an inevitable multipolar world where China becomes too big and too powerful to ever hope to contain.”

     Billy Bob maintains that the plan to contain China involves creating a global economic catastrophe and deep economic depression that would weaken China’s commerce with 120 trading partners throughout the worl…

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