It annoys the fuck out of me that some people will complain about oil and gas prices going up as the reason why AUKUS-Israel shouldn’t wage war in Iran. It is an “annoying inconvenience” to them.
USAmericans are missing the plot that the USD is backed by the oil trade it has never been able to sustain, without exploiting and extracting from the global south that has been trapped in a time loop of repair and survival since Eurocolonisation and the rise of the global north.
To every nation that has bought into it—your reliance on imperialism is why your systems are “disrupted”. The source you have taken advantage of, and taken for granted, is now inaccessible.
Given that oil is unsustainable, the Anglosphere turned its extraction onto Venezuelan gold because the mines in other parts of colonised First Nations lands, Africa and Asia are insufficient. And yes I am equally critical of other gold-backed currencies reliant on imperialism to sustain that.
What other parts of the global north relies on the global south?
How enthusiastically will you bandwagon the calls for “stability” (read: a return to successful hush-hush imperialism), when you can no longer exploit the global south?
It is so easy for so many of you to default to dehumanising especially Asian and African lives and livelihoods, as soon as it disrupts your conveniences that you’ve grown accustomed to.
This is what I mean about the global north doing global north shit.
Suddenly now taking public transport/carpooling is undoable, stocking up on frozen and canned foods is undoable, conserving water and electricity is undoable, prepping for blackouts and medication shortage is undoable. If you have never had to learn/do this before, why?
When my families in the rural global south survive these insecurities in their daily lives and have always lived on scarcity while people in the global north live like kings? And before you bring up any other intersections like race or disability: the Global South is not remiss of said intersections either.
You don’t care about how your country exploits the global south, and you are pro-imperialism. Your politics obeys the arbitrary lines that informs you of “Us VS Them” in who deserves what rights.
And your ‘leftism’ and decolonial and anti-racist politics has never included those in the global south. Not unless we served your agendas.
End of story.
