Russia Sees Multi-Polar World as It's Future -- Not Trump

[Lauren Johnson]

A multi-polar world is the best possible alternative at the moment, given humanity's present state of mind. Together with China and other Asian nations there is developing a political and economic bloc that can operate irrespective of the US need to dominate the world with their neoliberal lust, greed and never-ending-war.

David, I'm not quite as ready to sign on to this as I might have three years ago. Certainly Russia is in a position to adopt a rope-a-dope foreign policy and with China appears to practice an foreign economic policy of reciprocity, its internal policies strike me as rapacious and designed to benefit the government's sponsors -- the oligarchical class. It strikes me that Russia is at the moment organized around the eternal threat of war to benefit its nucleus. It is an internally neo-liberal economy as I see it.

Witness Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich's yacht.



I am marginally in agreement with you but still not hopeful. The most dire threat comes from the result capitalism in its various forms driven by the logic to the endless accumulation of capital. The arctic sea ice reached lowest maximum in since the last great warming event, many millennia ago. The physics of the polar ice sheet point toward a catastrophic collapse perhaps this summer due to winds tearing it apart. This would be a blue water event leading to a dramatic arctic warming and sudden climate disruption.