European elites are accelerating the push toward direct military confrontation with Russia not to defend democratic values or territorial integrity, but to preserve their own class power and wealth
The central argument is that European elites are accelerating the push toward direct military confrontation not to defend democratic values or territorial integrity, but to preserve their own class power and wealth in the face of a collapsing economic order. The extraction of $152 trillion from the Global South since 1960 underpinned Western capitalism, but the decline of the US empire and the rise of the BRICS bloc have closed off traditional avenues of exploitation.
The empirical basis for this rests on the historical record of colonialism, neocolonialism, and the structural adjustment programmes imposed on the Global South. The claim that $152 trillion has been extracted from the Global South since 1960, while difficult to verify with precision, is consistent with the broader scholarship on the costs of imperialism. The argument that BRICS countries’ economic metrics increasingly exceed those of the G7 is supported by the available economic data. The claim that the sanctions regime against Russia has largely failed is consistent with the observable evidence that Russia has weathered the sanctions and is now trading with its BRICS allies.
The Marxist-Leninist dissection of these arguments reveals that the European push for war is not a product of irrationality or malevolence but of the structural logic of capitalism in its late imperialist phase. The system has exhausted its capacity for peaceful accumulation, and the only remaining avenue for the preservation of elite wealth is the violent seizure of the resources of rivals. The fact that this project is objectively suicidal does not prevent its pursuit, because the class that pursues it calculates its interests differently from the class that would bear the consequences. The billions who would die in a nuclear war are not the decision-makers, and their lives are not a factor in the calculus of the ruling class.
The implications of this for the anti-war movement are profound. The movement must recognise that the enemy is not a particular politician or party but an entire class whose survival depends on global chaos. The wars in Ukraine, West Asia, and the Asia-Pacific are not separate conflicts but interconnected elements of a single campaign to disrupt the emergence of a multipolar world order that would challenge the hegemony of Western capital. The anti-war movement must unite across national boundaries, recognising that the working classes of Europe, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States all share a common interest in ending a war that serves only the ruling class. The struggle is long, but the alternative is the destruction of civilisation itself.
The conclusion is inescapable: the European push for war with Russia is a desperate gambit by a ruling class that sees its wealth and power slipping away and is willing to risk the future of humanity to preserve them. The recolonisation of Russia, the theft of its assets, and the exploitation of its resources are the dreams of a class that cannot imagine a world in which it is not dominant. But these dreams are not grounded in reality.
Russia cannot be defeated militarily, and the attempt to do so will only accelerate the decline of the West and the emergence of a multipolar world order. The question is whether that transition will occur peacefully or through the catastrophe that the ruling class is preparing. The answer depends on the capacity of the working class to recognize its interests and act on them.
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Europe’s Recolonisation Project
How the Push for War With Russia Serves the Bourgeoisie’s Desperate Need to Revive a Dying System
European elites are accelerating the push toward direct military confrontation with Russia not, as official narratives claim, to defend democratic values or territorial integrity, but to preserve their own class power and wealth in the face of a collapsing economic order. The extraction of $152 trillion from the Global South since 1960 underpinned Western capitalism, but the decline of the US empire and the rise of the BRICS bloc have closed off traditional avenues of exploitation. Professor Richard Wolff argues that the demonisation of Russia serves a dual purpose: terrifying European populations into accepting harsh austerity while preparing the ideological ground for the recolonisation of a defeated and dismembered Russia. The “subunits of old Russia” would offer Western Europe “a new colonial opportunity, a vast expanse for profitable investment to obtain food, raw materials, and possibly workers to rejuvenate Western European capitalism.” This analysis reveals that the ruling class is willing to risk nuclear annihilation to preserve its privileges, exposing the fundamental truth that under capitalism, the preservation of elite power takes precedence over the survival of humanity.
Europe’s Recolonisation Project
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16 Aug
Editorial Analysis | August 2026
Authored By: Global GeoPolitics
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