"It is a concept that eschews morality and values, kicks international and domestic law to the curb and invites disaster for the U.S., our neighbors and the world.
It is the same thuggish, blood-soaked approach to the international relations that guided Hitler, Stalin and virtually all of the great monsters of the past."
#Trump #Venezuela #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #hemispheres #power #Putin #Xi
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@wdlindsy Also: It's wrong. History, both the written human one & at an evolutionary scale, is unambigious; the world is governed by collaboration. Sure, a crazy person can twist that to also mean "governed by power" - but they're crazy, so we probably shouldn't listen to them.
The "powerful" is never more than a parasite, preying on collaborative systems without which they couldn't survive, but which would survive just fine without them.
@wdlindsy Also: It's wrong. History, both the written human one & at an evolutionary scale, is unambigious; the world is governed by collaboration. Sure, a crazy person can twist that to also mean "governed by power" - but they're crazy, so we probably shouldn't listen to them.
The "powerful" is never more than a parasite, preying on collaborative systems without which they couldn't survive, but which would survive just fine without them.
@daliarezk @wdlindsy That as well. There's really only two kinds of dictatorships - the majority, which ended violently for the dictator and/or his family, and a much smaller number that haven't ended that way yet, among which we can now count the US.
@jwcph Well-stated. I very much agree.
