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In reply to the discussion: "On the fourth day, I’d be assassinated." [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)from fighting with each other' eventually lost their power. The world went on but some of them miss the role of being able to steal the resources of other nations and are now clinging to the coat tails of the latest one.
Let's suppose that there does need to be a few Super Powers to keep all those, as Churchill among other Imperialists, referred to them 'savages' from attacking each other.
Let's suppose that rather than using their power to kill people with, the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions eg, and instead used all that money to help them become first world rather than third world nations? Suppose that when there was a natural disaster somewhere, in some Asian country eg, and the US used its military to help the victims restore their lives.
What if they created student exchange programs that allowed students from various countries to learn to know each other as human beings, rather than as 'enemies'.
We are in the 21st Century and have made ZERO progress wrt evolving into the kind of planet that IS possible. Because we are still stuck in the primitive stages of development.
We are just the latest war mongering nation to jump on that old bandwagon.
But if someday an Empire does emerge that uses its power to spread good will rather than bombs and torture and illegal invasions, that Empire will be powerful.
The truth is though that most nations don't need the Western powers to tell them how to live.
The very idea that this is the case shows how racist Western Imperialism is, even still.