Yankee empire desperately watches as China and Russia build infrastructures, harness energy and build alliances based on Marx’s dictum to ‘develop the productive forces”. Yankees in a panic call few remaining allies for reinforcements. Who are they? France, has-been minor power whose fate is sinking along with the European Union; India, whose fundamentalist prime minister has 90% of the peasantry against him; India, selling its ports to the highest bidder has agreed to allow French bases on its ports. All this maneuvering is designed to disrupt Chinese trade using the Indian ocean.
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