Yanis Varoufakis analyzes the real reason why USA wants to stop China
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Yanis Varoufakis analyzes the real reason why USA wants to stop China
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The US is clearly trying to stop China from becoming the world’s top economic power. But why? Many assume it’s because China is a communist country, a global threat, or even planning world domination. But according to Yanis Varoufakis, the reason goes much deeper.
Letter that was sent to Harvard from Dept. of Education, Dept. of Health and Human Services, and General Services Administration, 11 April 2025.
…line in the sand…
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Yannis Varoufakis: The United States is clearly trying to stop China from becoming the world’s top economic power. But why? … According to Yanis Varoufakis, the former Finance Minister of Greece, the real reason goes much deeper.
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The USA is trying to stop China from becoming the world’s top economic power. But why? [Many] assume it’s because China is a communist country, …or even planning world domination.…According to … Varoufakis … the real reason goes much deeper.
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George Galloway,
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Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the USA to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.…
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Super-sharp!
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![In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s 1984, who was allied with whom is whatever Big Brother said was so, and it was ever so.
“[Never] was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time as he forced his shoulders painfully backward (with hands on hips, they were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise that was supposed to be good for the back muscles) -- the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?
The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lnuxdldmzvkk2apcvih2envo/bafkreia5vse6cj423jekgiqpao4wphtqirv4m2uhj42fylos67sxeuysem)
In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s 1984, who was allied with whom is whatever Big Brother said was so, and it was ever so. “[Never] was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time as he forced his shoulders painfully backward (with hands on hips, they were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise that was supposed to be good for the back muscles) -- the frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories …
