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> Global stability has been worsening with the decline of American power. Has it really been though? At the height of American power during the cold war there
by chungus_khan 7y ago
> Global stability has been worsening with the decline of American power.
Has it really been though? At the height of American power during the cold war there were pretty much constantly regime changes and civil wars backed by the US. The instability of the era was intense for people living in these places, but because it was orchestrated in the name of furthering American interests it created a kind of "Global stability" in the eyes of the west. A perfect example of this might be someone like Pinochet or Suharto, whose regimes were the result of violent coups, and who committed politicide domestically, but were "stable" from the perspective of a western businessperson.
- solatic 7y agoMost of the post-WW2 twentieth century "hot" conflict in non-aligned countries is the result of a relative power balance between opposing forces - in Latin America, specifically, the unwillingness of neither the US nor the Soviet governments to devote the full power of their militaries to the local geography, but rather a limited force that supported a local proxy (similar to how Iran currently supports proxies across the Middle East). None of these local proxies were sufficiently more powerful than the others, plus drug cartel interests typically developed their own power which itself was not overwhelmingly more powerful (sometimes, not overwhelmingly less powerful) than the other local players.