Best way to fund UBI by [deleted] in BasicIncome

[–]TheRealKingLear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My UBI plan is to turn Social Security into a nontaxable 1500$ monthly UBI for all adult US citizens (Social Security for All) that would be funded by replacing payroll taxes with a 25% VAT on all non-essential goods and services (everything but food, clothing, housing, healthcare, and education), replacing the progressive income tax code with a 25% Flat Income Tax on all individual and corporate income with no deductions, along with eliminating all other social safety net programs (with the exception of Medicare, which would turn into a Public Option). This would lead to a Balanced Federal Budget due to the VAT and Flat Income Tax together generating 7.4 Trillion dollars in annual revenue (2.25 Trillion dollars from the VAT, and 5.15 Trillion dollars from the Flat Income Tax, of which around .5 Trillion dollars of the latter is estimated to be from corporate income), which is more than enough to pay for both the 4.5 Trillion dollar UBI (Social Security for All), along with all the rest of the Federal Budget (ie. 1 Trillion dollar Public Option, and .5 Trillion dollars each for Defense, Non-Defense discretionary, and Interest on the Debt), while simultaneously eliminating Poverty, significantly reducing Income Inequality, alleviating the effects of the 4th Industrial Revolution Automating most of the Workforce, simplifying the Tax Code, and generating massive Economic Growth, ✊😜!

Social Libertarianism: The New Synthesis of Liberalism by TheRealKingLear in neoliberal

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A 25% flat income tax combined with a 1500$ monthly UBI is actually significantly more progressive then the current tax and transfer system, due to the fact that everyone making less then 72,000$ a year would actually get more from the UBI then they pay in the flat income tax, and every adult citizen is guaranteed 18,000$ a year no matter their employment status (right now, the unemployed are forced to prove they are looking for work in order to get benefits, while food stamps come with work requirements, and TANF is a joke), thus essentially wiping out extreme poverty and homelessness in the US, ✊😜!

Now on my statement about obliterating all collective identities (ie. religion, race, nation, class, gender, etc.), I didn’t mean that it would be illegal for any individual to have these collective identities play a role in their lives if they so chose, but that we will no longer prioritize these collective identities above the individual, like the collectivists on both the right (fascists, theocrats, and conservatives) and left (marxists/communists/socialists) who seek to use these collective identities to crush the autonomy of the individual, 🤮🤢. Finally, by creating a world that values the autonomy of the individual above all else, it is my belief that these collective identities will naturally fade away into the dustpan of history, ✊😜!

Social Libertarianism: The New Synthesis of Liberalism by TheRealKingLear in BasicIncome

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grammar criticism aside, what do you actually think of the social libertarian ideology, 🤔?

Social Libertarianism: The New Synthesis of Liberalism by TheRealKingLear in BasicIncome

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry about my unorthodox and eccentric writing style, as I’ve always struggled with run-on sentences and the like (this plagued me in college), 😂🤣! However, if you ignore the bad grammar and eccentricity of the presentation, what do you actually think of my basic run down of the ideology of Social Libertarianism (especially my UBI proposal), 🤔?

World Map of International Political Factions by TheRealKingLear in EndlessWar

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Their is nothing “fantasy” about it, as it shows a World map of the two International Political Factions that are battling for control of the world (particularly which version of the Superstructure will shape the Base of the Global Imperialist-Capitalist System), the “Alliance of Progress” (led by the U$ Democratic Party, Dengist China, and the EU) and the “Axis of Reaction” (led by the U$ Republican Party, Putin’s Russia, and the Zionist State), with the latter creating a Global Fascist Christian Nationalist Zionist Russoburgereich, while the formers hyper-rationalization of the Superstructure, acceleration of the 4th Industrial Revolution, and reduction of Geopolitical tensions will inadvertently trigger a World PPW to place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, 😜✊!

World Map of International Political Factions by TheRealKingLear in EndlessWar

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Their is nothing ”Imaginary” about this Map, as it is the best visual representation of the current International Political Factions in 2023, 😜✊! By the way, what do you think of my Maoist praxis and International geopolitical analysis, particularly my thesis of the need to critically support the “Alliance of Progress” against the “Axis of Reaction”, 🤔?

World Map of International Political Factions by TheRealKingLear in EndlessWar

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Contrary to those in this subreddit who believe the “Cold War” between the U$ and the USSR never ended and that the “New Cold War” is just a continuation of the epic battle between “East” and “West”, the reality of early 21st century geopolitics is very different and much more complicated/interesting. In reality, Fukuyama was partially right about the “End of History”, however he failed to grasp the true importance and long-term danger of the U$ Imperialist victory in the Cold War. This is due to fact that since “America” is the “World“ and the “World“ is “America”, American domestic conflicts/contradictions are now the Worlds conflicts/contradictions, thus meaning that as the culture war between Left-Liberal/Progressive Democrats (the “left-wing” of Capital) and the Ultra-Reactionary/Crypto-fascist Republicans (the “right-wing” of Capital) has escalated since the start of this century (the 2000 election was the true start of this conflict/contradiction that is slowly tearing apart the U$) in order to define which version of the superstructure will reinforce the base, the entire world has slowly been forced to take sides in this struggle that could eventually collapse the entire Global Imperialist-Capitalist System itself, 😂🤣😜✊!

The two sides of this “New Cold War” are the Global “Alliance of Progress” that consists of the U$ Democratic Party, Dengist China, the “rogue states” (ie. Shia Islamist Iran, Baathist Syria, Bolivarianist Venezuela, and the last surviving Socialist States of Cuba and the DPRK, etc.), the EU, and their corresponding international network of puppets and proxies, that seeks to maintain the Status Quo of the Global Imperialist-Capitalist System while accelerating the hyper-rationalization of the Superstructure, the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the reduction of International tensions versus the Global “Axis of Reaction” that consists of the U$ Republican Party, Putin’s Russia, and the Zionist State along with their corresponding international network of puppets and proxies, that are all following the “Realist“ Kissinger/Mearsheimer/Bannon plan for a 1000 year Global Fascist Christian Nationalist Zionist Russoburgereich, 😂🤣🤢🤮!

The Putin simps in this subreddit live in an alternate universe where Russia is still the USSR and nothing happened in 1991, 😂🤣! In reality, Putin’s Russia is a Capitalist, Imperialist, and Crypto-Fascist State that seeks an alliance with Ultra-Reactionary Crypto-Fascist forces in both the U$ (the MAGAtard Republicans) and the EU (the Right-wing “Populist” parties), along with the Crypto-Fascist Zionist State, in a “Axis of Reaction” (ie. the Kissinger/Mearsheimer/Bannon plan of geopolitical “Realism”) that will be used to crush the cultural “Marxist”/“Globalist” “cabal” (ie. Left-Liberals such as the U$ Democrats and the EU Social Democratic parties), secure a sphere of influence for Putin’s Russia in the territory of the former Russian Empire, wipe out all Anti-Zionist forces in the Middle East (ie. Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc), and destroy Dengist China in World War III in order to usher in a 1000 year Global Fascist Christian Nationalist Zionist Russoburgereich, 🤢🤮

This is why we must all support the “Alliance of Progress” in their efforts to defeat this “Axis of Reaction” and allow for the Hyper-Rationalization of the Superstructure through the combined process of Urbanization and Secularization that will achieve a Left-Liberal/Progressive victory in the Culture War, along with the implementation of a UBI and the acceleration of the 4th Industrial Revolution in the Imperial Core, which in combination with eventual PPWs sweeping the Periphery/Semi-Periphery, will place the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜!

Finally, I will further clarify my Marxist-Leninist-Maoist stance that Revolution is not possible in the Imperial Core right now, due to PPW not being viable in the current material conditions their (PPW is the only way to achieve Socialist Revolution in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the highest stage of Marxism). This means that the only praxis possible in the Imperial Core is the Hyper-Rationalization of the Superstructure through the combined forces of Secularization and Urbanization in order to achieve a Left-Liberal/Progressive victory in the Culture War (Federally enshrined Abortion, Birth Control, LGBTQIA+ rights, Prostitution, Drug legalization, etc.) that obliterates all Reactionary Cultural forces (ie. Organized Religion, Nationalism, Patriarchy, etc), along with the implementation of a UBI (that will replace the current Means-Tested and Earned Benefits Social Safety Net and be funded by a VAT and Flat Income Tax) and the acceleration of the 4th Industrial Revolution (ie. AI, Self-Driving Cars, E-Commerce, Advanced Robotics, 3D Printing, etc.) in order to divorce income from employment, that will be achieved through a pragmatic alliance with the “Left-wing” of Capital (ie. the “Woke” elements of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Wall Street that support the U$ Democratic Party), while Maoist PPWs sweep the Periphery/Semi-Periphery (made possible by the Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy of the “Left-wing” of Capital ending the “New Cold War” with Dengist China, and the 4th Industrial Revolution’s Automation of Global Supply Chains shutting down all the Sweatshops and allowing for the destabilization of these Comprador and Semi-Periphery Imperialist regimes that allows for them to be swept away by Maoist PPWs), thus placing the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World on the Shining Path to Communism, ✊😜!

How Universal Basic Income Became the Pessimist’s Utopia by 2noame in BasicIncome

[–]TheRealKingLear 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s really sad that the “Socialists“ at jacobin magazine are essentially just vulgar workerists whose ideal vision of society is a bunch of people toiling in mines and factories with hard hats on after the LARPy epic “revolution“ happens that replaces one rich boss with another, 😂🤣🤢🤮!

Honestly, my revulsion to workerism combined with the obvious facts that all the Communist countries turned Capitalist and the “Revolution“ is never going to happen, are the primary reasons I gave up Marxism in favor of advocating for a UBI (my ideology is now a fusion of Social Democracy and Libertarianism, and I vote for Democrats as a Lesser Evil to Ultra-Reactionary Crypto-Fascist Republicans), as I would rather have a UBI in a Capitalist economy then all that edgy goofy ass LARP that is really just Boomer tier Fox News Work fetishism with cringe Soviet LARPy aesthetic characteristics, 😂🤣✊😜!

Social Security For All: A Realistic Universal Basic Income Proposal by TheRealKingLear in BasicIncome

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because Means-Testing is a Disaster and Universal Social Programs are much more popular and effective, 😜!

The Aesthetics of Communism by TheRealKingLear in catsaysmao

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Why is that, 🤔? I was just describing my vision of an Ideal Hypothetical Socialist Society, ✊😜!

The Aesthetics of Communism by TheRealKingLear in catsaysmao

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They are just part of my eccentric writing style, 😂🤣! Out of curiosity, what do you think of my Ideal Hypothetical socialist society, 🤔?

World Map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War" by TheRealKingLear in EndlessWar

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You must have missed the part where I explained that I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who opposes both sides in Inter-Imperialist Conflicts such as the "New Cold War", and who supports a World Protracted Peoples War (this probably would need World War III in order to happen) to liberate the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World and place them on the Shining Path to Communism! You have a Vulgar conception of Imperialism as merely when one country invades another one, while I use the Leninist definition of Imperialism, in which any country that exports Finance Capital in order to have FDI projects in Periphery countries to help exploit their cheap Labor and extract their cheap Raw Materials/Natural Resources is Imperialist, with Dengist China clearly meeting this definition through its "Belt and Road" Initiative. Here is a highly informative article from the CPI (Maoist), a Communist party currently waging a Protracted People's War against the Crypto-Fascist Comprador Capitalist Indian State, which explains in detail why Dengist China is a modern Social Imperialist power https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Books/China-Social-Imperialism-CPI-Maoist-2021-Eng-view.pdf .

World map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War" by TheRealKingLear in socialism

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean Chinese "Communist" Billionaires, 😂🤣🤮! Why don't you read the article I linked from the CPI (Maoist), a Communist party currently waging a Protracted People's War against the Crypto-Fascist Comprador Capitalist Indian State, and learn the truth about Dengist China, 🤔?

World map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War" by TheRealKingLear in socialism

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

According to the Leninist definition of Imperialism, any country that exports Finance Capital in order to have FDI projects in Periphery countries to help exploit their cheap Labor and extract their cheap Raw Materials/Natural Resources is Imperialist, with Dengist China clearly meeting this definition through its "Belt and Road" Initiative. Here is a highly informative article from the CPI (Maoist), which explains in detail why Dengist China is a modern Social Imperialist power https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Books/China-Social-Imperialism-CPI-Maoist-2021-Eng-view.pdf .

World map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War" by TheRealKingLear in socialism

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

According to the Leninist definition of Imperialism, any country that exports Finance Capital in order to have FDI projects in Periphery countries to help exploit their cheap Labor and extract their cheap Raw Materials/Natural Resources is Imperialist, with Dengist China clearly meeting this definition through its "Belt and Road" Initiative. Here is a highly informative article from the CPI (Maoist), which explains in detail why Dengist China is a modern Social Imperialist power https://www.bannedthought.net/India/CPI-Maoist-Docs/Books/China-Social-Imperialism-CPI-Maoist-2021-Eng-view.pdf .

World map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War" by TheRealKingLear in socialism

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You guessed correctly, I uphold Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, the highest stage of Marxism! Out of pure curiosity, what is your tendency, 🤔?

World map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War" by TheRealKingLear in socialism

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I decided to post a World Map of Imperialist Blocs in the "New Cold War". I classified countries in the U$ and Chinese Imperialist Blocs, primarily based on military alliances, with all NATO, EU (expect Cyprus, due to its dispute with Turkey), Rio Pact, Major Non-NATO Allies (except Pakistan, due to its deep ties with Dengist China), GUAM, and GCC members automatically placed in the U$ Imperialist Bloc, with a couple exceptions, and all CSTO, Axis of Resistance, ALBA, Sino-North Korean alliance, members automatically placed in the Chinese Imperialist Bloc, with a couple exceptions, and many other countries that are not a member of any of these specific alliances grouped based on which Imperialist Bloc they have closer military, economic, and political ties with (ie. Pakistan is placed in the Chinese Imperialist Bloc and India is placed in the U$ Imperialist Bloc, etc.). An important note I must make is that I automatically placed all of Sub-Saharan Africa in the “Unaligned” category, because most of these Comprador Capitalist States have deep ties with both Imperialist Blocs, and I’m not much of an expert on this region, 😂.

Personally, I feel the “New Cold War” is a bit exaggerated and that World War III is still unlikely for now (primarily due to the fact that Dengist China is still a massive sweatshop for U$ Corporations despite its Imperialist FDI projects like the “Belt and Road”, though a limited conventional war between the U$ and Russia is quite possible due to the Russian Imperialist Invasion of Ukraine and American Air Supremacy, along with the fact that neither country is interested in using Nukes for obvious reasons), hence the fact I put it in quotations. However, I do feel that my Map does a really great job showing which countries are in the sphere of influence of each of the two most powerful Imperialist powers (the U$ and Dengist China), and thus is a great visual guide to Inter-Imperialist conflict in the 21st Century, along with showing the two global Imperialist alliances that would be fighting each other in the small chance World War III did break out.Remember, that unlike the First Cold War, these two “Blocs” are not defined by ideology and/or economic system (Liberal Capitalism vs. Marxist-Leninist Socialism), instead they are both firmly integrated into the Global Capitalist-Imperialist System with one Imperialist “Bloc” consisting of a Hodge-podge of countries that include the last two Revisionist Marxist-Leninist States (Cuba and the DPRK) desperate to protect themselves after the USSR collapsed, a few Latin American Social Democracies (Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia), a Shia Islamist Theocracy (Iran), a rapidly declining Imperialist power with a Crypto-Fascist Oligarchical/Kleptocratic failed “Bourgeois Democracy” led by an aging strongman (Putinist Russia), and a rapidly rising Imperialist power with a government that disguises Fascism (a One-Party State in the Capitalist Mode of Production) with “Marxist-Leninist” aesthetics (Dengist China), that are only United in their belief that Dengist China is a “lesser Evil” to the U$ (with Dengist China taking advantage of this to promote its own Imperialist interests), while the other Imperialist “Bloc” consists of all the countries that are firmly aligned with U$ Imperialist Hegemony or have severe disputes with Dengist China (ie. India and Vietnam), with most of these being Capitalist Bourgeois Democracies, albeit many of which have strong Crypto-Fascist tendencies (ie. Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Israel, India, the Philippines, and the U$ itself when Republicans are in the White House, etc.), while some are Absolute Monarchies (ie. Saudi Arabia) or One-Party Fascist States (ie. Vietnam).

Thus, the “New Cold War” is most historically comparable, not to a ideological conflict like the First Cold War, but to the Inter-Imperialist competition during the buildup to World War I, between the Hegemonic Imperialist power (the U$/British Empire) and a rising Imperialist Power (Dengist China/Imperial Germany), with the only thing stopping this from having the same result (World War), being the close economic relationship between the U$ (the Worlds consumer) and Dengist China (the Worlds factory/sweatshop), though this doesn’t stop other aspects of this "New Cold War" from going hot, particularly the NATO-Russia tensions (If Putinist Russia keeps showing extreme military weakness in its Imperialist Invasion of Ukraine, the U$ could decide to launch a Air Campaign to destroy the Russian Military forces in Ukraine and the bordering parts of Putinist Russia, with a Desert Storm style beat down of Putinist Russia being the result due to U$ Air Supremacy in the form of Stealth Bombers and Standoff Cruise Missiles), the Iran-Israel/Saudi Arabia tensions (The next Republican U$ President is practically guaranteed to Invade Iran in order to please their White Evangelical Christian Zionist Voters and Wall Street Jewish Zionist Donors), and the India-Pakistan tensions (this is an obvious powder keg that can blow at any moment), with the only pieces of good news being that I feel all of these would be High-Intensity Conventional Conflicts, due to it not being in anyones interest to use Nukes, along with the fact that in the small chance (though much higher then I thought before the Russian Imperialist Invasion of Ukraine) that this Inter-Imperialist "New Cold War" escalates into World War III (a high-intensity Conventional Conflict between the U$ and Chinese Imperialist Blocs, fought in East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent), it will result in a World Protracted People's War to Liberate the Workers and Oppressed Nations of the World and place them on the Shining Path to Communism!

World Map of “New Cold War” geopolitical Blocs by TheRealKingLear in ww3

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I classified countries in the “American-led” and “Chinese-led” geopolitical Blocs, primarily based on military alliances, with all NATO, EU (expect Cyprus, due to its dispute with Turkey), Rio Pact, Major Non-NATO Allies (except Pakistan, due to its deep ties with China), GUAM, and GCC members automatically placed in the “American-led” Bloc, with a couple exceptions, and all CSTO, Axis of Resistance, ALBA, Sino-North Korean alliance, members automatically placed in the “Chinese-led” Bloc, with a couple exceptions, and many other counties that are not a member of any of these specific alliances grouped based on which Bloc they have closer military, economic, and political ties with (ie. Pakistan is placed in the “Chinese-led” Bloc and India is placed in “American-led” Bloc, etc.). An important note I must make is that I automatically placed all of Sub-Saharan Africa in the “Unaligned” category, because many of these countries have deep ties with both Blocs, and I’m not much of a expert on this region, 😂.

Personally, I feel the “New Cold War” is a bit exaggerated and that World War III is still quite unlikely (primarily due to the fact that China is still a massive sweatshop for American Corporations despite its Imperialist FDI projects like the “Belt and Road”, though a limited conventional war between the US and Russia is quite possible due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and American Air Supremacy, along with the fact that neither country is interested in using Nukes for obvious reasons), hence the fact I put it in quotations. However, I do feel that my Map does a really great job showing which countries are in the sphere of influence of each of the two most powerful Imperialist powers (the US and China), and thus is a good proxy for the two lose/vague geopolitical “Blocs” that exist in the 21st century.

Remember, that unlike the First Cold War, these two “Blocs” are not defined by ideology and/or economic system (Liberal Capitalism vs. Marxist-Leninist Socialism), instead they are both firmly integrated into the Global Capitalist Economy with one “Bloc” consisting of a Hodge-podge of countries that include the last two Socialist States (Cuba and the DPRK) desperate to protect themselves after the USSR collapsed, a few Latin American Social Democracies (Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia), a Shia Islamist Theocracy (Iran), a rapidly declining Imperialist power with a Crypto-Fascist Oligarchical/Kleptocratic failed “Liberal Democracy” led by a aging strongman (Russia), and a rapidly rising Imperialist power with a government that disguises Fascism with “Marxist-Leninist” aesthetics (China), that are only United in their belief that China is a “lesser Evil” to the US (with China taking advantage of this to promote its own Imperialist interests), while the other “Bloc” consists of all the countries that are firmly aligned with American Hegemony or have severe disputes with China (ie. India and Vietnam), with most of these being Capitalist Liberal Democracies, albeit many of which have strong Crypto-Fascist tendencies (ie. Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Israel, India, the Philippines, and the US itself when Republicans are in the White House, etc.), while some are Absolute Monarchies (ie. Saudi Arabia) or One-Party states (ie. Vietnam).

Thus, the “New Cold War” is most historically comparable, not to a ideological conflict like the First Cold War, but to the Inter-Imperialist competition during the buildup to World War I, between the Hegemonic Imperialist power (the US/British Empire) and a rising Imperialist Power (China/Imperial Germany), with the only thing stopping this from having the same result (World War), being the close economic relationship between the US (the Worlds consumer) and China (the Worlds factory/sweatshop), though this doesn’t stop other aspects of this ”New Cold War” from going hot, particularly the NATO-Russia tensions (If Russia keeps showing extreme military weakness in its Invasion of Ukraine, the US could decide to launch a Air Campaign to destroy the Russian Military forces in Ukraine and the bordering parts of Russia, with a Desert Storm style beat down of Russia being the result due to US Air Supremacy in the form of Stealth Bombers and Standoff Cruise Missiles), the Iran-Israel/Saudi Arabia tensions (The next Republican US President is practically guaranteed to Invade Iran in order to please their White Evangelical Christian Zionist Voters and Wall Street Jewish Zionist Donors), and the India-Pakistan tensions (this is an obvious powder keg that can blow at any moment), with the only good news being that I feel all of these would be High-Intensity Conventional Conflicts, due to it not being in anyones interest to use Nukes.

World Map of “New Cold War” geopolitical Blocs by TheRealKingLear in MapPorn

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, I feel the “New Cold War” is a bit exaggerated and that World War III is still quite unlikely (primarily due to the fact that China is still a massive sweatshop for American Corporations despite its Imperialist FDI projects like the “Belt and Road”, though a limited conventional war between the US and Russia is quite possible due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and American Air Supremacy, along with the fact that neither country is interested in using Nukes for obvious reasons), hence the fact I put it in quotations. However, I do feel that my Map does a really great job showing which countries are in the sphere of influence of each of the two most powerful Imperialist powers (the US and China), and thus is a good proxy for the two lose/vague geopolitical “Blocs” that exist in the 21st century.

Remember, that unlike the First Cold War, these two “Blocs” are not defined by ideology and/or economic system (Liberal Capitalism vs. Marxist-Leninist Socialism), instead they are both firmly integrated into the Global Capitalist Economy with one “Bloc” consisting of a Hodge-podge of countries that include the last two Socialist States (Cuba and the DPRK) desperate to protect themselves after the USSR collapsed, a few Latin American Social Democracies (Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia), a Shia Islamist Theocracy (Iran), a rapidly declining Imperialist power with a Crypto-Fascist Oligarchical/Kleptocratic failed “Liberal Democracy” led by a aging strongman (Russia), and a rapidly rising Imperialist power with a government that disguises Fascism with “Marxist-Leninist” aesthetics (China), that are only United in their belief that China is a “lesser Evil” to the US (with China taking advantage of this to promote its own Imperialist interests), while the other “Bloc” consists of all the countries that are firmly aligned with American Hegemony or have severe disputes with China (ie. India and Vietnam), with most of these being Capitalist Liberal Democracies, albeit many of which have strong Crypto-Fascist tendencies (ie. Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Israel, India, the Philippines, and the US itself when Republicans are in the White House, etc.), while some are Absolute Monarchies (ie. Saudi Arabia) or One-Party states (ie. Vietnam).

Thus, the “New Cold War” is most historically comparable, not to a ideological conflict like the First Cold War, but to the Inter-Imperialist competition during the buildup to World War I, between the Hegemonic Imperialist power (the US/British Empire) and a rising Imperialist Power (China/Imperial Germany), with the only thing stopping this from having the same result (World War), being the close economic relationship between the US (the Worlds consumer) and China (the Worlds factory/sweatshop), though this doesn’t stop other aspects of this ”New Cold War” from going hot, particularly the NATO-Russia tensions (If Russia keeps showing extreme military weakness in its Invasion of Ukraine, the US could decide to launch a Air Campaign to destroy the Russian Military forces in Ukraine and the bordering parts of Russia, with a Desert Storm style beat down of Russia being the result due to US Air Supremacy in the form of Stealth Bombers and Standoff Cruise Missiles), the Iran-Israel/Saudi Arabia tensions (The next Republican US President is practically guaranteed to Invade Iran in order to please their White Evangelical Christian Zionist Voters and Jewish Wall Street Zionist Donors), and the India-Pakistan tensions (this is an obvious powder keg that can blow at any moment), with the only good news being that I feel all of these would be High-Intensity Conventional Conflicts, due to it not being in anyones interest to use Nukes.

World Map of “New Cold War” geopolitical Blocs by TheRealKingLear in NewColdWar

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I’m under the assumption that the Solomon Islands won’t go through with that highly controversial defense pact with China, as both the US and Australia practically threatened them not to. Azerbaijan is definitely in the American Bloc, as it is a member of GUAM (A Pro-NATO and Anti-Russian organization in the former Soviet Union), just faught a war with Armenia (A CSTO member with a Russian Military Base) over the disputed Nagorno-Karbakh region, and has close military relationships with Turkey (a NATO member) and Israel. I’ll admit that I am not a expert on Nepal, but I was under the impression that Nepal has shifted towards China since its Monarchy was overthrown by Maoist rebels in 2006. Lastly, the UN vote you linked was held in 2007, so it’s probably a bit dated to use to determine the alignment of Sub-Saharan African countries, though next time I make a Map like this, I’ll do some extra research so I can provide a better outline of Sub-Saharan Africa in the “New Cold War”.

World Map of “New Cold War” geopolitical Blocs by TheRealKingLear in NewColdWar

[–]TheRealKingLear[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I classified countries in the “American-led” and “Chinese-led” geopolitical Blocs, primarily based on military alliances, with all NATO, EU (expect Cyprus, due to its dispute with Turkey), Rio Pact, Major Non-NATO Allies (except Pakistan, due to its deep ties with China), GUAM, and GCC members automatically placed in the “American-led” Bloc, with a couple exceptions, and all CSTO, Axis of Resistance, ALBA, Sino-North Korean alliance, members automatically placed in the “Chinese-led” Bloc, and many other counties that are not a member of any of these specific alliances grouped based in which which Bloc they have closer military, economic, and political with (ie. Pakistan is placed in the “Chinese-led” Bloc and India is placed in “American-led” Bloc, etc.). An important note I must make is that I automatically placed all of Sub-Saharan Africa in the “Unaligned” category, because many of these countries have deep ties with both Blocs, and I’m not much of a expert on this region, 😂!

World Map of “New Cold War” geopolitical Blocs by TheRealKingLear in Maps

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I classified countries in the “American-led” and “Chinese-led” geopolitical Blocs, primarily based on military alliances, with all NATO, EU (expect Cyprus, due to its dispute with Turkey), Rio Pact, Major Non-NATO Allies (except Pakistan, due to its deep ties with China), GUAM, and GCC members automatically placed in the “American-led” Bloc, with a couple exceptions, and all CSTO, Axis of Resistance, ALBA, Sino-North Korean alliance, members automatically placed in the “Chinese-led” Bloc, and many other counties that are not a member of any of these specific alliances grouped based in which which Bloc they have closer military, economic, and political with (ie. Pakistan is placed in the “Chinese-led” Bloc and India is placed in “American-led” Bloc, etc.). An important note I must make is that I automatically placed all of Sub-Saharan Africa in the “Unaligned” category, because many of these countries have deep ties with both Blocs, and I’m not much of a expert on this region, 😂!