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Jeffrey Sachs: BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions (consortiumnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by davel@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.

Since the 1990s, the goal of American foreign policy has been “primacy,” aka global hegemony. The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Kazan brought together 35 countries with more than half the world population that reject the U.S. bullying and that are not cowed by U.S. claims of hegemony.

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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just in the last 24 years the US killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions; and now facilitating a genocide.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nothing compared to the US crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq or the genocide it is enabling in Palestine. Not to mention the embargoes and sanctions on multiple countries now. The same sanctions that killed half a million children in Iraq in the 1990s.

You can’t defend the US crimes, so you have to scaremonger that the others will be worst. The thing is most of the world disagrees and knows better.

Remember: just because you believe in European supremacy and American exceptionalism, doesn’t mean that the rest of the world does or that it is even true.