this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
19 points (100.0% liked)
US News
2407 readers
75 users here now
News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yeah, that makes sense. I do agree that decline is getting more overt and i dont think it is reversable either but I dont know if it is as fast as it looks or if it will be a perpetual slow trainwreck like in britain where they starve their population, sabre rattle towards ireland and otherwise keep still as much as possible. For germany this would mean long lines at food banks, strong identification with israel and more police presence on the streets, maybe even outlawing of protests or curfew as with covid. I can see that happening. Germany always was a little more authoritarian than the rest while pointing fingers at erdogan.
Personally, I expect that things will keep getting worse in the west for a while yet. And material conditions for the vassals will be worse than in the core because the US will be sucking the life out of Europe, Japan, and occupied Korea to prop up its own economy. We're already seeing this happening with the "deals" that Trump rammed through. That all might lead to revolutionary conditions, but seems like that's quite far away at this point. Naked fascism seems like the most likely next stage to me.
I'd say austerity for at least a couple years with massive spending towards the us and military. I dont think we will see fascism again as it was back then. Its probably more a toned down, stupider version like the us.
It's hard to say. I don't think anybody expected 1930s style fascism before it got into motion either. These things can take on a life of their own very quickly. What we'll see is that repression is going to increase in response to public discontent. We already see this happening both in the US and the EU. We're seeing militarization of police, mass surveillance, bans on political speech, widespread censorship, and so on. All of that will continue to be cranked up, and that's how you end up with full blown fascism in the end. The US is just at the start of the road, it's going to keep getting worse with each and every year. Europe is sure to follow.