Was the western elite acting against its interest by supporting Rhodesia? People aren’t looking into the empire’s finances if they attribute this entirely to corruption of key figures in the US political system, as if it’s the governing body of the entire empire & not just a privatized facade. A lot of them just repeat Mearsheimer-inspirired international relations/poli sci which feigns ignorance of why the US acts against its national interest. We already know that the US govt acts in ruling class interest. Nations are not all mindless amoebas trying to swallow the others up. Somebody needs to actually put their body between the fiber optic drone & the settlement. The region needs to be kept cowed & deindustrialized, it’s a subimperialist dynamic. Rhodesia was so subimperialist at one point Samir Amin says itreachede his definition of a first world country.

They serve the westoid cult of liberalism well (taken to mean zero restrictions on capital if your country has a Whiteness Rating above 4, outside the institutions they create to redistribute the violence & inflatiom to the periphery). Imperialism needs colonialism to slice up the world before it can be stitched back together into something easier to manage, but it’s unwieldy enough to backfire this hard. The need to bring irrationally self-absorbed elites into a messianic death cult in order to even have a narrative to run with makes it pretty hard to 180⁰ this thing