RE: China
October 16, 2014 at 12:09 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2014 at 12:20 am by Anomalocaris.)
There is great benefit to being part of a powerful unified state in a world of powerful competing states. No state ever got to be powerful and unified without extensive and brutal bullying. There is the most profound truth in statecraft to the saying that one can't make omelets without breaking eggs. Some simply willfully forget how many eggs they had enthusiastically broken when it suits them to pretend they never broke any eggs.
The only difference amongst powerful states is how sanctimonious some states can get, perched as they always do upon privileged position they had only attained by the path of bloody bullying that they had not long ago tread, as they talk from a presumed moral superiority down onto other states seeking to attain similarly privilege position using very similar means.
This is why I don't question the morality of the Chinese are doing in Tibet, nor what the Russians are doing in Ukraine, only whether what they do is good for long term balance of power in the world or not.
The only difference amongst powerful states is how sanctimonious some states can get, perched as they always do upon privileged position they had only attained by the path of bloody bullying that they had not long ago tread, as they talk from a presumed moral superiority down onto other states seeking to attain similarly privilege position using very similar means.
This is why I don't question the morality of the Chinese are doing in Tibet, nor what the Russians are doing in Ukraine, only whether what they do is good for long term balance of power in the world or not.
