The amount of conflicts going on in the world is mindbonggling. Truly decades happening in weeks like Lenin said. Right now Biden’s trying really hard to link the Palestinian resistence and “terrorism” with Iran in his tweets and statements, which brings back memories of Bush doing the same thing about Iraq after 9/11. Like Goebells said, repeat something enough and it becomes true.
As a result, it looks like the US may very well go to war with Iran in the close future. We’re already proxy warring Russia in Ukraine, but US aid is starting to run dry (correct me if I’m wrong) and it seems like the US will eventually get bored of Ukraine.
The problem here is that Republicans are warhawking for proxy war with China over Taiwan, and some of them are talking about invading Mexico as well. If Biden starts a war with Iran the Republicans will probably be on board. Americans are getting sick of sleepy Biden running their country, and it seems like in the 2024 elections Republicans have a strong chance of winning. If they hold true to their promises, the US could be involved in 3 wars at once, which would be an enormous hit to the economy. The only way I see this playing out is the US shifting to a war economy like Nazi Germany did to prevent the already fragile and heavily indebted economy from collapsing. The US could become even more fascist than it already is, reaching Nazi levels of insanity.
My mind’s running a bit on this one, so someone please tell me any more insights on this or any mistakes I have made.
“Full war economy” is an insane mobilization of all aspects of a county’s industrial capability, and if the US were to undertake such an endeavor it would near instantly implode. This is not very unique to the US though, as modern economies are not designed around being mobilized in such a way, and there is absolutely no way to mobilize a country in such a way without causing extreme and lasting damage; which makes it unlikely for the US and its capitalists to do.
The US is also not “running dry”, they have given Ukraine a tiny little bit of scrap from their pile of aging weapons that were primed to be scrapped anyways. Whatever the US is giving is quickly replaced by new war material from new contracts from the Military Industrial Complex.
Active US war itself is also incredibly unpopular, which is why even the most bloodthirsty libs immediately shy away from the thought when its brought up. This is also why the US avoids any and all direct conflict, and instead pokes and prods, and engages in proxy wars.
All in all, all of these factors combine to mean that the US simply wants a new proxy war that they can fund and run contracts off of. The possibility of launching an invasion of Iran is minimal, but the US would froth at the possibility to arm Israel if they decide to launch an attack.
They just want to sell guns, loans, and contracts. War profiteering.
The US no longer has the factories, shipyards, or airplane manufacturing facilities it had before WWII. Everything has been outsourced and hollowed out. The shipyards are luxury condos now. There are no typewriter factories to churn out tommy guns. There really isn’t a productive economy to convert to wartime use.
Neoliberalism has created an economy that cannot serve the public interest or good. I kind of hope they try and fall flat on their faces.
