A lot of people in the West still think it is natural and good for 12% of the world to dominate 88% of the world. Any other possibility is seen as an existential threat to Western civilization.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).
Because of course, China and Russia would never
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.
China wouldn’t. Russia would if it had its druthers, but since it presently doesn’t, it presently won’t. Putin tried to join NATO once, to join the imperialist club, but that was rejected, because the US wanted Russia Balkanized & plundered instead. Russia has figured out it’s better off allying with Global South countries than attempting imperialist adventures upon them. And this war has accelerated that allyship.
No one has the power to go against corruption because it's endemic to power.