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You think that Putin and Xi are the good guys here? You really think the world would be a better place if the US let them be the world’s super powers?
by plandis 5y ago
You think that Putin and Xi are the good guys here? You really think the world would be a better place if the US let them be the world’s super powers?
- randomopining 5y agoThese types lock onto a bad thing the US has done as the be all end all, and completely ignore the logically conclusion of a world controlled by Xi and Putin types… for example, none of this quality HN discussion would be available in Autocratica.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoi’m on the US’s side, but for the fun of playing devil’s advocate, it could be that the US resisting the assent of Russia/China is the very thing that unifies them under totalitarianism (common threat and all that) - China and Russia might have had their governments overthrown already if it weren’t for the US giving them something to fight against. Every group turns toward infighting once the outside threat is defeated.
- nraynaud 5y agothe world is not manichean, the superpowers are thorns in the side to "deal" with day in, day out, for smaller nations. What's the point of view of the African nations where only China invests vs what the Uighurs think of the same government? What's the point of view of a NATO nation vs the point of view of the Afghans on the US? It's the same country that blocked the westward moving of the USSR and gave an entire country to the Talibans after having upset them. Or even worse, think of Irak, where nothing good came of the invasion, and nothing good was really foreseeable without the invasion anyways, no clear good vs bad here. Maybe a dictature kills less people and is more predictable than an open war, but that's hardly a manichean difference.