US Ruling Class United Against China But Split on How to Counter Empire s Decline, w, Ben Norton
Watch the full episode on our Patreon: The US is escalating a bipartisan Cold War, pumping up the military industrial complex, fueling proxy wars and gutting whats left of the welfare state. But there is a split in the ruling class on how best to guarantee US hegemony. On one side is the farright America First crowd led by Trump, who claim to want out of Ukraine. Thats only because they want to divert the countrys Cold War resources solely toward what they see as the ultimate enemy, China. On the other side there are the neocons and liberals who want to take on Russia and China at the same. Both sides are committed imperialists with the same agenda, but they have a different pathway for how to get there. Here to discuss how to navigate it all as the U. S. Empire gets desperate to maintain itself in an increasingly multipolar world is Ben Norton, a LatinAmerica based journalist and founder of the Geopolitical Economy Report. Th
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