Yes they are. Azteca is owned by Salinas Pliego which is aligned to Trump, Banamex is now part of Citigroup as you said, and Banorte is owned by foreign banks along the Hank family, another one of our oligarchs.
I completely disagree, these small wins have costed the US and Europe all of their global credibility and have completely polarized their populations, it may seem that nothing ever happens but these things will eventually have consequences. They are also facing a very dangerous property crisis and the increasingly growing threat of dedollarization, people like saying that "China does nothing" but it's not true, the Chinese people have never been one to sit back and relax, while the West continues to sink their resources and public image into Israel/Ukraine, China continues to strenghten ties in Asia, Africa and latín america while developing alternatives to the financial monopoly of the West.
Sure it sucks what has happened in Syria and Gaza, but in the grand scheme of things, they're gonna end up being Israel problem, the people of Syria won't keep their heads down so the wahhabist chop them, it will inevitably blowback.
Butchering the definition, imperialism is the monopolist stage of capitalism, specifically the monopoly of finance capital. This can be expanded but there is no point in doing so here.
The monopoly on finance capital is already formed by a cartel of mostly american+european financial institutions and so on. These countries are what we call imperialist, we do not call Russia imperialist simply because they do not have this monopoly and are actively fighting against it, their future ambitions are a story for another day.
Let's say that somehow the cartel completely disappeared and banks were to start from zero again, a bunch of local banks would emerge all around the world. As time went on, the most efficient banks would inevitably best its competitors, consolidate their position and gain increasingly more market share, until it becomes a local monopoly, then they go global and the process repeats until a global monopoly is formed, this is what happens on every single industry.
This is an inevitable outcome of capitalism simply due the nature of capital growing, capital stagnates when it faces competition so capitalists inevitably organize into cartels to consolidate a monopoly. The only way to do some sort of "checked capitalism" is to completely strip capitalists off political power through a violent revolution, like China did.
When Cowbee says that capitalism decays and leads into imperialism this is what i think he means, and he is right.
When private property is so ingrained in your brain that you think communism is when more people have land.
The tragedy of commons straight up describes capitalism, profits are privatized and costs are socialized, how can people think this is a refutation of communism.
Its objectively true too. North american civilizations faced the british and the french, latin america civilizations faced the spanish and portuguese (mostly) yare yare.
Its sad because our civilizations were fundamentally destroyed by these calamities, what we have now is an amalgamation of european with what remained here.
He is pointing out the obvious contradiction on NATOs justification on their war crimes.
If they were worried about s genocide in yugoslavia and forced to intervene, why aren't they doing the same with israel? Have you asked yourself this question?
Its pretty hard at this conjunction in time, they used to be able to get away justifying these interventions with the "stopping genocide" card, but they can't say that now that they're enabling Israel. The facade of virtuousness has fallen.
Yes they are. Azteca is owned by Salinas Pliego which is aligned to Trump, Banamex is now part of Citigroup as you said, and Banorte is owned by foreign banks along the Hank family, another one of our oligarchs.