President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, a move that confused everyone and appeared to reverse or complicate earlier efforts by his administration to "reduce the number of American service members stationed across Europe".
By Yiannis Damellos
Are you pissed off yet with Trump, or are you still waiting for this war to end and prices to return to their pre-war levels? Cause that’s not going to happen. I’ve been researching inflation and supermarket prices since COVID, and my assessment is negative. Oil prices won’t drastically drop, and coffee, cocoa, grains, produce, meat, or clothing won’t get cheaper anytime soon. Same for electronics and all products whose development depends on fertilizers. The war in Iran will go on as long as it is logistically supported, and your President won’t stop lying—unless he doesn’t have to, that is, if a few Republicans he’s pissed off recently decide to cut his war funding soon.
The tech giants at the commanding heights of the modern economy did not invent a new mode of production — they are simply classically exploitative capitalists.
One of the most persistent left shibboleths is the notion that productive investment is giving way to unproductive speculation, leading to the “hollowing out” of the industrial economy and the decline of capitalism. After all, it seems obvious that capitalists would rather make a quick buck than undertake the arduous and risky process of actually producing something. Neo-feudalism is having a moment.
