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Wonder how commenters like this will feel when Russia/China/Iran have their own sphere with an alternative to SWIFT like CIPS. Your complete inability to be a
by drekk 5y ago
Wonder how commenters like this will feel when Russia/China/Iran have their own sphere with an alternative to SWIFT like CIPS.
Your complete inability to be a fair global hegemon is the reason nobody respects or trusts your government. Cuba is still needing to ask Uncle Sam for permission to import syringes during a global health crisis, we're still backing a genocide in Yemen, doing all of these terrible things while acting like global arbitrage. USA isn't the global police. If you're going to undercut the WHO, the UN, etc. then you don't get to act like it's about freedom and democracy or the rule of law.
Might makes right is an inane policy for Machiavellian wonks. Just because you can do whatever you want doesn't mean you should. The US imports a lot of things too, and a concerted global effort would at the very least require an isolationist USA. Where are you going to get your silicon chips from if the Republic of China reunifies with the People's Republic of China?
US wants to play by different rules than everyone else, not sure that works long term. Either invasions are globally kosher or they aren't, over a million dead and 38 million displaced over a "war on terror" that didn't do shit is a war crime. If we're not going to call an invasion on false pretexts that killed and displaced millions of civilians a war crime the word has no meaning and the discussion is moot.
And if the US can do war crimes but only China/Russia/Iran face consequences for them because we're a "big powerful country" I hope you're ready for the era of multiple US-hostile nuclear powers. Almost ruined the Earth when only two nuclear powers were butting heads in the 20th century and now we've got several to pick from :)
- cabalamat 5y ago> Wonder how commenters like this will feel when Russia/China/Iran have their own sphere with an alternative to SWIFT like CIPS. If they want to, that's up to them. It wouldn't surprise me if China did do something like this. > Your complete inability to be a fair global hegemon Hey, (1) I personally am not a global hegemon. (2) I was describing the way things are not how they ought to be. You should work on distinguishing is from ought; if you can't you'll never understand anything. FWIW I personaslly think a fair bit of US policy is both immoral and self defeating. But, again, that's irrelevant, because as I said, geopolitics isn't a morality play. > Where are you going to get your silicon chips from if the Republic of China reunifies with the People's Republic of China? I'm European and I think the EU should be self-sufficient in chips. This is because any polity that isn't won't in the long term be fully independent. > US wants to play by different rules than everyone else, not sure that works long term. "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is a rule thast's worked so for for all 5000 years of recorded history (with a few counterexamples). Is that lnog term enough for you? Is that just? No. Does it matter (i.e. affect the course of events)? Not usually. > I hope you're ready for the era of multiple US-hostile nuclear powers. A world with lots more nuclear powers may well happen, depending on the result of the present Russia-Ukraine war.