This is where the liberal resistance people were always right.
The US is an insane nuclear power. How do you revolt against that?
If change is going to come, it’s going to come from the periphery of the world-system, not the American core.
The majority of the people in the military…do not actually want a civil war.
There’s two ways that this gets resolved. There’s going to be a clash of forces, which is actual violence, which sucks…or we’re gonna do a general strike, finally, and we’re gonna shut this shit down and we’re gonna have a critical mass of people withdraw their labor.
Politics behind the scenes! A rare glimpse behind the curtain as Van, Lyle, and guest Andrew Facini got together to record an episode on Crimson Tide (coming in due course!). As sometimes happens, their conversation took a massive detour into the politics of the day, and it was urgent enough to share now as its own episode:
The folly of investing in nuclear “deterrence” while America makes an authoritarian turn;
The politics of emergency that Trump is mobilizing to deploy the US military in US cities;
Why a general strike in America is both inevitable and impossible;
What it means that MAGA is a counter-revolutionary force;
Why civil war depends on whether the military follows/keeps following unlawful orders;
Why Trump’s unlimited national security powers have everything to exaggerating the China threat; and
Why MAGA intellectuals are bad military strategists.
