Times of Eswatini

Decline of the American empire

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and disappeari­ng jobs. Whole towns closed as the climate change rhetoric get the upper hand. We have to understand that a huge global working class is emerging in Asia and the global south, while it is shrinking dramatical­ly in Western countries, particular­ly in America.

US PENDING ISOLATION

The American empire peaked and started to decline. The signs are everywhere. However, it would be a mistake to believe that its demise will be sudden given the fact that America is still the biggest economy in the world. The European countries are facing similar difficulti­es as the French and German workers have joined strikes to protest the inflation, which is attacking them from all directions. Europe is caught up between the new capitalist from the East and its old friend America.

TRIGGERED

They are asking themselves if they should remain with America and continue to do their duty work as in Ukraine and Libya (where NATO invasion only triggered an influx of refugees and destroyed available country ) or if the future is with the new global east China and its allies.

The expansion of NATO was not a priority to the European Union but seemed impotent to the US. The pain of losing Russian natural gas and food supplies is still fresh in their minds. American-based Human rights watch reacted with anger to French President Emmanuel Macron saying that he seems to have succumbed to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s charm offensive during a three-day visit to China recently. The headline read France’s Macron Ignores Human Rights Violations During China Visit.

Will we continue next week with the isolation and decline of the America Empire. We will look closely at the BRICS organisati­on and its de-dollarisat­ion drive. We will look at the number of countries that have applied to join BRICS and the effect of Chinese-brokered peace between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the petrodolla­r. &RPPHQW VHSWHPEHUH­VZDWLQL#JPDLO FRP

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