A-Infos (en) UK, AnarCom: 'It's Capitalism stupid!' (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Paradigm Lost? ---- Has everything suddenly changed?  How can the pot we 
were watching so intensely suddenly seem to be boiling? Aren't such 
turnarounds, back stabbings, treasons and betrayals usually carried in 
behind our backs, closed doors or dead of night?  Is such change too 
unbelievable to be true?  Yes, of course it is.  Everything changes but 
capitalism! ---- Imperialism's 'great game' never went away, it briefly 
froze in the headlights of the Cold War.  What has changed is the 
80-year consensus since the last great world war (2) on how business is 
done.
Since the end of the Cold War the pieces on the chess board of the 
power-bloc competition have moved slowly but inexorably towards this 
point - where some piece or other has to fall to progress towards the 
end game.

Republican Elephant goes to town...
Trump is the backlash to 40 years of neoliberal economic 
experimentation.  The acceleration and integration of forces of 
production and distribution that temporarily masked capitalisms drive to 
hegemonic monopoly.  Far from receding, the danger of war has just 
increased exponentially.

The previous way of doing things aka a 'world order' (sovereignty, 
alliances, mutual agreement and international standards etc) has 
paradoxically left the 'mono-polar' world's only truly 'superpower' 
constrained against its best interests - a ruthless unfettered challenge 
to its only true rival, an ascendent China in the east.

What we are seeing is not about Ukraine, Russia or for that matter, 
Europe.  It is about the pacific frontline between rival organisers of 
capital.  The writing has been on the wall since the post Reagan era 
when the US abandoned the idea of a military strategy based on a 
simultaneous conflict on two continental fronts.  Slowly but surely the 
centre of gravity has been shifting.

Every US administration has signaled this for a generation or more. 
Trump has had both the momentum and audacity to move the dial.  His 
position on Ukraine and Russia is neither appeasement nor surrender, it 
is a strategic realignment.

While Europe has expected the US to engage in the western hemisphere in 
time of threat, the US could not count on such reciprocation in the 
east, even if Europe were able - which it isn't.  And it is increasingly 
clear that the western focus is not US capital's prime concern.

Trump could have pulled a blinder.  Hiding behind the façade of his own 
hyperbole he could be on the verge of decoupling Russia from China, 
silencing the Western Front and force Europe to pay.  Sentiment and 
semantics have no role in this ruthless tour-de-force of realpolitik.

Starmer Chameleon..
To see the cringeworthy homage paid by the Kings socialist emissary Sir 
Kier at Trumps Republican court was like watching Idi Amin being 
celebrated as the 'last king of Scotland', while the following public 
castigation of Zelensky added to the theatre with his refusal to sign up 
to his tormentor's extortion.

The outcome, however, is possibly cast. This fortuitous yet diversionary 
chapter from the US point of view, war in Europe, will close with 
preparation for the conflagration to come with China the next bloody 
project.

A European volte-face changes little.  An armed peace is as austerity 
driving as war and the threat remains.  Besides, the moving of a global 
battlefront in the era of nuclear warheads and ICBMs is no more 
significant than a dinosaur ducking to avoid a meteorite.

In My Name..
For our class, everywhere and without frontiers, the challenges and 
tasks remain the same.  Capitalisms existential threat - through war 
most immediately or climate catastrophe should that fail requires the 
same unyielding response.  Fight it where we find it - on the 'home front'.

If global power politics feels complex, our daily encounter with its 
consequences is very familiar! Austerity; cuts to Health and Social 
Services; food banks, travel costs that keep us geographically confined; 
poor housing that is killing us; exploitation through rent, low wages, 
inflation and debt.  This is what they call peace!

Fighting this peace is our daily struggle.  This Class War, at first for 
bread and then to live is by its nature a fight against their wars!  If 
we won't let them kill us at home, we can stop them killing us, or those 
like us, abroad.  Resistance begins at home.  It grows with a 
conversation.  It spreads through discussions and shows itself in 
actions and solidarity.

The drive to war was never more a European affair than the Class 
Struggle.  The opposition to war globally, everywhere is our Class War!

https://anarcomuk.uk/2025/03/01/its-capitalism-stupid/
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