the 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

the 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.