Good that those things are taught in some places. I can only speak from my own experience in high school - we were required to have laptops for school but were never taught how to be safe online.
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Some people put their whole lives on the internet and never once stop to think if it's a good idea. Then again, online safety and security are never taught or communicated, at least in the west, maybe by design.
Line goes up, board of directors happy. How, what, and why is irrelevant.
Just give the worker drones happy pills until they comply.
This is normal.
How does this actually play out in practice? If we believe all the NATO bluster about their holy article 5, an attack on Netherlands would mean the rest of NATO has to come to the aid of the Dutch. So the US would come to aid the country it's invading?
But of course it wouldn't play out like that, as article 5 is only meant as a causus belli to attack the US' villain of the week.
Controlling the narrative is just as (if not more) crucial for national security as aircraft carriers and troops.
Ok so they're not allowed to use Azure OpenAI, but there's certainly a secret Microsoft department called Thin-Blue-Line ClosedAI which provides support to cops using AI for facial recognition and pre-crime.
So they'll just start shoveling wood into coal power plants in 2030 and unfurl the "Mission Accomplished" banner.
Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.
From my reading Hudson's Superimperialism is an more an extension of Lenin's Imperialism, based on how material conditions had evolved over the interim fifty years and the lessons learned from (at initial publication) the first generation or so of US dollar hegemony. To simplify it maybe too much, it adds a monetary dimension to the already established framework of finance capital being the driving force behind imperialism.
Superimperialism is indeed the same English term often used for Kautsky's Überimperialismus hypothesis. Yet apart from the initial parallel of a global cartel, ie. dollar hegemony, I don't see much of Kautsky's ideas represented in Hudson's work, but I'm also not terribly familiar with überimperialism.
For an actual explanation for what happened in 1971, economically and monetarily at least, go ahead and read Michael Hudson's Superimperialism and Global Fracture. Superimperialism was so prescient at its original publishing that the US government itself used the book and the theory as a manual on how to be better superimperialists right back around 1971, and hired Hudson as a consultant.
I won't comment on the fascist economics presented in the linked website.
My only break between reading books in the Expanse series was waiting for the final book to be released. A very enjoyable series and story.