Imperialism Reading Group Ping!

The penultimate chapter. If you're behind, don't worry - we're going to have a few weeks on pause where you can catch up. Next week's thread will be the last for this book (as it's the epilogue chapter next week), and we can share thoughts and observations about the whole book there, as well as ask questions and hopefully get community answers to those questions.

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Seeing it all culminate and wrap up in this chapter really helped connect the dots. I got quite lost throughout a lot of the financial jargon, but this chapter helped put it all together. I definitely feel like I better understand why T-Bills are an important tool of modern US Imperialism whenever users over in the News Mega reference them.

haha i caught up to you i'm actually now wondering, do gulf state shenanigans connected to sports flows from "can't buy our shit, surplus countries, here buy golf or mma promotion".

also soviet importing grain, thanks . I wonder though why soviets were bothering with gas extraction and selling, whatever for?

Apologies for the lack of a new thread. I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been struggling to find time to get on it while events in the Middle East are going on. Israel must have timed their operation to begin when we finished this book or something.

Anyway, given that this week was supposed to be epilogue week, I don't think it matters that much, but I will be posting a sort of containment thread next week. My proposed schedule (to start the next book in mid-July) might be yet further delayed because I'll probably be spending a big chunk of my free time on the news mega, especially if the US enters the conflict. For now I'll keep the date of the beginning of the next book a little open-ended as I don't want to promise something I can't keep to, but assuming WW3 doesn't start, I'm thinking maybe the end of July, early August. Also, perhaps we should shift our next geopolitical reading to the Middle East, so if anybody has any strong recommendations on that front, I'm all ears.