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If you look through entire USA history, they do seems to care about human rights abuse. Americans still heavily debating to this day about the Japanese internme
by ikerdanzel 6y ago
If you look through entire USA history, they do seems to care about human rights abuse. Americans still heavily debating to this day about the Japanese internment. It pales in comparisons to what British and Chinese did consistently throughout their history. Even American Indians are given their own "Nations" within USA. Show me which countries are doing that.
No other countries outright fought a war to emancipate slaves and enshrined that in constitutions. No countries willing to go fight consistently in foreign lands for the idea of freedom. No countries on earth allows a slave minorities became president. No countries on earth has peace corp and fund United Nation operation more than USA. Even WHO is largely funded by USA. No countries without the need of signed Montreal Protocol and achieve it. USA is probably terribly shitty by any metrics if you judge it individually. But as a nation overall, it is simply the greatest nation on Earth and human history until now. Americans do believe largely in manifest destiny. That phrase alone say a lot about USA. You should read up more and diversify your readings.
You can't change how trade works. That is international. At best you impose sanctions. Trade changes won't change a country behavior. If it can, Obama would be greatest true Peace Nobel laureate having change Iran, Libya, SA, Iraq, China, Russia, NK for the better.
- mabbo 6y ago> You can't change how trade works. That is international. I'm arguing in favor of exactly this. I believe nations should give up on trade deals in their present form, and change to a simpler model whereby the tariffs imposed on other countries are purely a function of the ethics of that other country. And as I said, a dream at best. But maybe with the rise in fascists who believe in protectionism, there is an opportunity soon for such a system to be put in place. It appears existing trade deals are going to be ignored or broken at the whim of the POTUS without warning anyway. > Trade changes won't change a country behavior. Then why does the US bother with sanctions? If they won't influence change in a country's behaviour, what's the point? By that logic, we might as well all open up trade with North Korea, right?