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2NC -- Ext: Russia War LinkCapitalism is the root cause to not only the recent invasion of Ukraine but ALL conflictsWolff ’22 [Richard D.; April 19; American Marxian economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Mail & Guardian; The role of capitalism in the war in Ukraine, https://mg.co.za/opinion/2022-04-19-the-role-of-capitalism-in-the-war-in-ukraine/] SPark Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict. Nor is the issue about either Russian President Vladimir Putin or US President Joe Biden as leaders. The same history and confrontation would prevail on their successors. Meanwhile, former US president Donald Trump’s effort to force change on China by imposing the biggest sanctions action in history (that is, a trade war and a tariff war) utterly failed. Trump was caught up in the same history as Biden, even if each focused on attacking the Russian-Chinese alliance differently. Eventually, some compromise will end the Ukraine war. Both sides will likely declare victory and blame the war on the other among propaganda blizzards. The Russian side will stress demilitarisation, denazification, and protection of Russians in eastern Ukraine. The Ukraine side will stress freedom, independence, and national self-determination. Meanwhile, the tragedy goes beyond Ukraine’s suffering. The entire world is caught up in the decline of one capitalist empire and the rise of yet another. Conflicts between the capitalist empires can occur anywhere where differences between them flare up. Perhaps the greatest tragedy lies in not recognising the responsibility of the capitalist system with its markets of competing enterprises run/dominated by the minorities we call employers. That system lies at the root of these historic repetitions. The minority employer class controls or is the leadership of the nations that have absorbed and reproduced the competition that capitalism entails. The majority employee class pays most of the costs on both sides (in dead, wounded, destroyed properties, refugee lives and taxes). A different economic system not driven by a profit motive offers a deeper solution than any on offer at present. Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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