From Roosevelt and Stalin's "Big Two" to Putin and Trump's 'Odd
Couple', history might not be repeating itself, but it does feel like
it's having a laugh at our expense. ---- What happened in Alaska felt
less like the deliberations from an encounter between two warring
figureheads, and more the choreographed delivery of a joint position
statement long held and worked out. ---- A big reveal of the commonality
between capitalism's war mongers usually lost in the facade of rival
narratives. As such, an actual sneak peek behind the veil.
Is it conceivable that Trump is imagining an axis with Putin ultimately
against China? Disregarding Europe, already treated as a backwater on
the one hand and aligning their own strategic objectives on the other,
may well be the best last-ditch superpower throw of the dice for Russia
and the necessary counterweight the US needs to fully pivot East.
Together, they meet on a strategic level over their relationships to
Europe, and Putin cannot regain the central Asian 'Stans against Chinese
opposition without US support.
Similarly, detaching Russia from its Chinese chaperone leaves the latter
surrounded and alone to face the US in the Pacific. In this region and
potential future conflict theatre, the US has just concluded its biggest
war game since the cold war, it involving hundreds of aircraft and 50
locations thousands of miles apart.
The former 'partnership' of Europe has seen the writing on the wall. It
has not been idle, though possibly futile, in its efforts to respond.
It has been buying time telling Trump what he needs to hear. While talk
of increased defence spending and rearmament might look like dancing to
the US tune, they are more likely a gallop towards an attempt at defence
autonomy in the anticipation of the abandonment that is their likely
fate. The realities of the global power competition they're about to
confront alone.
Back to the future? "Thank God for the French army!", Churchill said in
1933. History tells us we are really in trouble when the Anglo-French
entente is the answer to a crisis!
Yet here we are again. Prime Minister Starmer and President Macron held
in early July what was effectively billed as a nuclear summit. They
declared a mutual combining of their nuclear capacities against
unspecified yet forthcoming, "extreme threats".
French President Macron declared this both, ".. a message to our
partners, and our adversaries". This begging the question: is an
Anglo-French nuclear deterrent a salvation or does it bring us closer to
war?
If a pragmatic alliance against populism and multi-polarism could find
its own slogan of provocative militancy, it might be:
What do we want? Pragmatism! When do we want it? Within an appropriate
timescale when circumstances are optimally aligned!
Now maybe, the circumstances are urgently aligning for Starmer and
Macron. A patriotic toast in the last chance saloon of Europe making
its last mark as a global defining entity.
Each successive conflict seems to dwarf the other in horror. From
Ukraine to Gaza, from Gaza to Sudan; to name only a few. Whilst they
all risk becoming sidelined footnotes on the march to a superpower
reckoning. The horizon of which could be accelerating towards us.
There will be no history nor analysis after that. Tragically, given all
the potential we have as a species, here will exist, just the ashes of
tyrannical hubris.
Whatever our analysis or speculation, we are revolutionaries not
journalists. It is not our role to idly conjecture or to excite the
debate. Our purpose here is to emphasise that whatever the twists and
turns may appear to be, no matter how unlikely, the trajectory remains
the same.
Capitalism and war are two wheels of the same bike driving inexorably
towards global destruction in a compulsive competition for power and
resources. Its detail becomes secondary to the primacy of our solution:
Class war!
The focus for their rivaling attentions may chop and change. Ours,
however, remains the same - them and this existing nightmare of a
socio-economic system! Them, the exploiting capitalist class who run
the economies and nations in their interests and at our expense. The
system that has no interests except profit, and which exploits and
oppresses us to this end.
We are the world's producers, the global working class. Without
frontiers and beyond borders, we are used as the cannon fodder of their
wars of exploitation and domination. Without us, all wealth and our
world, would not exist. Without them as a ruling class - war, famine,
environmental degradation, exploitation and oppression will cease to exist.
Our choice and our task is a fore gone conclusion. It is also in
reality no choice at all. Fight for survival but also for the creation
of a truly human community beyond exploitation and destruction.
https://anarcomuk.uk/2025/08/26/putin-trumps-zelensky/
_________________________________________
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Couple', history might not be repeating itself, but it does feel like
it's having a laugh at our expense. ---- What happened in Alaska felt
less like the deliberations from an encounter between two warring
figureheads, and more the choreographed delivery of a joint position
statement long held and worked out. ---- A big reveal of the commonality
between capitalism's war mongers usually lost in the facade of rival
narratives. As such, an actual sneak peek behind the veil.
Is it conceivable that Trump is imagining an axis with Putin ultimately
against China? Disregarding Europe, already treated as a backwater on
the one hand and aligning their own strategic objectives on the other,
may well be the best last-ditch superpower throw of the dice for Russia
and the necessary counterweight the US needs to fully pivot East.
Together, they meet on a strategic level over their relationships to
Europe, and Putin cannot regain the central Asian 'Stans against Chinese
opposition without US support.
Similarly, detaching Russia from its Chinese chaperone leaves the latter
surrounded and alone to face the US in the Pacific. In this region and
potential future conflict theatre, the US has just concluded its biggest
war game since the cold war, it involving hundreds of aircraft and 50
locations thousands of miles apart.
The former 'partnership' of Europe has seen the writing on the wall. It
has not been idle, though possibly futile, in its efforts to respond.
It has been buying time telling Trump what he needs to hear. While talk
of increased defence spending and rearmament might look like dancing to
the US tune, they are more likely a gallop towards an attempt at defence
autonomy in the anticipation of the abandonment that is their likely
fate. The realities of the global power competition they're about to
confront alone.
Back to the future? "Thank God for the French army!", Churchill said in
1933. History tells us we are really in trouble when the Anglo-French
entente is the answer to a crisis!
Yet here we are again. Prime Minister Starmer and President Macron held
in early July what was effectively billed as a nuclear summit. They
declared a mutual combining of their nuclear capacities against
unspecified yet forthcoming, "extreme threats".
French President Macron declared this both, ".. a message to our
partners, and our adversaries". This begging the question: is an
Anglo-French nuclear deterrent a salvation or does it bring us closer to
war?
If a pragmatic alliance against populism and multi-polarism could find
its own slogan of provocative militancy, it might be:
What do we want? Pragmatism! When do we want it? Within an appropriate
timescale when circumstances are optimally aligned!
Now maybe, the circumstances are urgently aligning for Starmer and
Macron. A patriotic toast in the last chance saloon of Europe making
its last mark as a global defining entity.
Each successive conflict seems to dwarf the other in horror. From
Ukraine to Gaza, from Gaza to Sudan; to name only a few. Whilst they
all risk becoming sidelined footnotes on the march to a superpower
reckoning. The horizon of which could be accelerating towards us.
There will be no history nor analysis after that. Tragically, given all
the potential we have as a species, here will exist, just the ashes of
tyrannical hubris.
Whatever our analysis or speculation, we are revolutionaries not
journalists. It is not our role to idly conjecture or to excite the
debate. Our purpose here is to emphasise that whatever the twists and
turns may appear to be, no matter how unlikely, the trajectory remains
the same.
Capitalism and war are two wheels of the same bike driving inexorably
towards global destruction in a compulsive competition for power and
resources. Its detail becomes secondary to the primacy of our solution:
Class war!
The focus for their rivaling attentions may chop and change. Ours,
however, remains the same - them and this existing nightmare of a
socio-economic system! Them, the exploiting capitalist class who run
the economies and nations in their interests and at our expense. The
system that has no interests except profit, and which exploits and
oppresses us to this end.
We are the world's producers, the global working class. Without
frontiers and beyond borders, we are used as the cannon fodder of their
wars of exploitation and domination. Without us, all wealth and our
world, would not exist. Without them as a ruling class - war, famine,
environmental degradation, exploitation and oppression will cease to exist.
Our choice and our task is a fore gone conclusion. It is also in
reality no choice at all. Fight for survival but also for the creation
of a truly human community beyond exploitation and destruction.
https://anarcomuk.uk/2025/08/26/putin-trumps-zelensky/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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