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>From a practical standpoint the West’s intervention in Ukraine is best understood as a symptom of the deepening crisis of the capitalist mode of production,
Unfathomably based. Capitalism is an anti-economic anti-system. It's a literal cargocult.
>Capitalism today is marked by a shrinking surplus value,
I don't know what that means. Are you referring to real production of real things in the real world inside one's borders? Yes, capitalism murders that. Every single time, no exceptions.
>a crisis of over‑accumulation
Of what? Fiat currency? Imported real wealth?
>and a rapid retreat of productive forces into a few global “super‑firms.”
I wouldn't call conglomeration or consolidation of businesses accumulation.
>Those forces have largely moved out of the public sphere and into an opaque network of transnational conglomerates that have no incentive to bear the social costs of warfare, especially when the warfare itself is an extension of capitalist competition for markets and raw material.
I think you're looking at things through too many layers of abstraction. Things are much simpler. Capitalism destroys the real economy. The economy of making real things, doing real things, in the real world, inside your borders.
>The West’s intervention, both the political rhetoric of “freedom” and the massive military aid to Ukraine was framed as a defense of liberal democratic values, yet it ultimately served to reinforce the imperial‑capitalist logic of “global hegemony” that is already unsustainable in a world where surplus production is spiraling out of control.
Surplus is a weasel word. Like capital and value.