Re: <nettime> Stormy weather?

[mp <mp@aktivix.org>]

War!

On 13/02/2023 17:39, Felix Stalder wrote:
> On 13.02.23 08:45, Stefan Heidenreich wrote:
>
> > - the defeat of NATO could lead to a "decolonization" of Western
> > Europe (not that this by itself leads to positive results. Repressive
> > "liberal" fascism remains as likely an outcome as some sort of
> > independence.)
>
> Oh my, what this is supposed to mean, only chatGPT can explain.

It just spoke, right there. See how deep inside "us" all it is?

As for the war, three elements come to mind:

1. Wheat to sustain the continued destruction of food autonomy in "the 
colonies".  Ukraine has a lot of it. Control food supply, control people.

2. Minerals to make batteries and other components for the electrical 
paradigm. Or, as Miller calls it: Chip War: The Fight for the World's 
Most Critical Technology - 
https://www.christophermiller.net/semiconductors-1  - lots of it in Ukraine.

3. Trade routes to move those things to and from China/Europe. Ukraine 
is in the middle.

The rest of the analysis is simply complexity in the battles between 
global elites and capital movers and shakers, and whatever perspective 
applies: it's in the eyes of the beholder.

Want to see NATO imperialism, then you are a certain type of lefty.

Want to see attacks on "their" freedom, then you are a certain type of 
liberal.

Want to see attack on "our" freedom, then you are another type of liberal.

Want to play with new brain candy to tickle your intellectual fancies, 
and come up with "new logics", then you are, well, what, fiddling while 
the world burns?

Anyway, that war thing, there were all those tanks standing about being 
out of date for the electrical paradigm and drone and info wars. Got to 
get them monetised. Job done. Good stuff.

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