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Originally Posted by Wisdom_Seeker
The question is this:
What is the best way to deal with a bully such as America who uses its power to do nothing but harm and spread chaos and misery?
The UN? Its a joke. International Law? Thats also a big joke. Human Rights organisations? No power.
I'd like to hear Americans answer this question and put themselves in the shoes of people who are at the receiving end of American Injustice. Lets put the patriotic sht aside for a sec, I want to get serious answers from americans on this one.
WS.
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I'm not a patriot, or a nationalist, and I really don't think nation-states have much inherent value as organizers of society. In fact, they may be more harmful than good. That said, I disagree with the characterization of America as a "bully that only uses its power to do nothing but harm and spread chaos and misery." Any state in the same position would behave similarly, if not worse, and frankly, I think the world is lucky to have had a
relatively liberal democracy with
relatively accountable leaders be the sole superpower after the Cold War. Sure, America's leaders were and are no saints, but they also didn't, or weren't able to, take full advantage of its newfound unipolarity.
Instead of asking what to do about America, I think we need to ask about to do about international anarchy, because
that is a large contributor of what allows states to engage in military conflict, in power politics, in human rights abuses. And ironically, America is (or at least was) in one of the best positions in history to reshape the international order. I suppose it would be naive to imagine a nation-state leading the world into a new international order that weakened nation-states, though. Rather, it seems the continual balancing of power and threat is at it again in the new century with the formation of regional security pacts and continental politico-economic integration. Maybe that is how things will unfold in the new century to balance against a single state's hegemony. I don't know, but that sounds possibly worse than nation-states today.