Thank you, US; for destroying the American empire for our sake.

The unpleasant reality is ~~Russians, like the Chinese~~ Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. They are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

Russia isn't going to lose. The Ukrainian counteroffensive has been a complete failure, and Ukraine's Western patrons are already at the stage of acceptance. Of course, Russia won't agree to freezing the war, like what happened at Korea, because they have all the leverage.

The world really is revolving faster than I had anticipated. I thought that the decline of USD hegemony would gradually occur over the span of two or three decades, but it might occur in just a few years. This year, 2023, isn't even over, yet 21 countries—BRICS+ and ASEAN—have agreed to remove USD as the middleman in cross-border transactions.

The UN, under the UN charter, already recognizes the US unilateral sanctions as illegal, but the US can afford to maintain them to this day—despite annual calls by the actual international community to cease such policies—because the USD has been the dominant reserve currency for a long time.

Now that the world is increasingly becoming more multipolar and regional-based, the US and their satellites, in Europe and Asia, are panicking.

Apparently, the problem is that US technology is present throughout SMIC operations; that, existing rules demand that companies that rely on US technology exports must seek prior consent before exchanging products that contain said technologies.

Regardless, it's a moot point. It's blatantly clear that the US is trying to suppress Chinese technological growth, so there's no long-term incentive to play by the US' rule.

Not that we as communists give a single shit about “free market competition”, there is nothing wrong with a weaker nation using protectionist measures (although we must be clear about the fact that sanctions are not protectionism, they are the polar opposite, they are aggressive economic hybrid warfare) to prevent a stronger one overrunning their economy, but it shows the hypocrisy of their own neoliberal “free trade” mantra.

My understanding is that the "free market" is to prevent foreign nations from developing their economies by means of import-substitution industrialization, for the sake of domestic monopolies taking over the foreign nations' economies, like a parasite, and turning them into rent-extracting hosts.

In that case, it's in the interests of all peoples of the globe to reject this form of neo-colonialism—not just communists.

This blue water boi comes to you and smacks your rear with its' tail. How do you react?

The modern, neoliberal variant of feudalism: neo-feudalism.

I don't think that we disagree. Because, for the reasons that you have provided, competition will produce almost-indestructible monopolies as a natural consequence, and those monopolies have a tendency to use their extensive power to destroy and buy out potential competitors and seek for quick, easy ways to accumulate wealth; notably, through rentier capitalism.

This is literally what's happening right now; at least, in the US.

Interestingly enough, Xi Jinping's speech at the Closing Ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum 2023 makes a similar remark:

An ancient Chinese thinker observed that “following the underlying trend will lead one to success, while going against it can only cause one to fail.” We humankind have achieved notable economic development and social progress over the past decades, and that is because we have drawn lessons from the two world wars and the Cold War, followed the historical trend of economic globalization, and embarked on the right path of openness and development for win-win cooperation. Our world today has become a community with a shared future in which we all share a huge stake of survival. What people in various countries long for is definitely not a new Cold War or a small exclusive bloc; what they want is an open, inclusive, clean and beautiful world that enjoys enduring peace, universal security and common prosperity. Such is the logic of historical advance and the trend of our times.

The BRICS summit meeting begins tomorrow.