US VP JD Vance Admits West Wants Global South Trapped at Bottom of Value Chain

U.S. VP JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain

At a summit held by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, U.S. Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that the West wants to keep poor, formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies.

US VP JD Vance Admits West Wants Global South Trapped at Bottom of Value Chain

At a summit held by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that the West wants to keep poor, formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies.

According to the new US administration, the United States would have paid for the defence of Europe while Europe was building the welfare state. This version of Europe as a “slurry”, in the words of Vice President J.D. Vance, responds to a distortion of the past, because the strategy of the United States during the cold war was not to defend Europe from the Soviet Union, but to defend its interests in European theatre.

JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain - Friends of Socialist China

In the following article, that was originally published on his Substack, Geopolitical Economy, Ben Norton draws attention to a recent speech by US Vice President JD Vance on globalisation that  made it clear that Washington’s goal is to keep formerly colonised countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain. … Continue reading JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain The post JD Vance…

J.D. Vance is right: the threat to the West comes from within, but not from the “abandoning of freedom of expression,” as he proclaimed in Europe, but from the expansion of nationalist populism. And to counter it we must know the reasons why it arose. The post The decline of the West and the origins of the new world appeared first on Free Letters.

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