RE: America can you pls stop meddling in countries you have no busienss in.
March 24, 2019 at 12:02 pm
The relative stability of world trade is basically the result of US meddling. I sometimes think that maybe the relative stability of global trade is perhaps not such a good thing, since it requires us to maintain a massively expensive global military presence and makes it possible for some developed nations to behave like our spoiled children (Europe, I'm looking at you.)
But in our own western hemisphere, we have been atrocious. We haven't been very helpful to our western hemisphere neighbors, and every time a western hemisphere nation takes a sharp turn to the left, we resolutely undermine it in pretty much every way that we can. We will help their wealthy elite export their wealth. We will encourage Saudi Arabia to bump up oil production to undermine global oil prices. We will menace them so that they have to increase their military spending. We will fund the efforts of their various internal adversaries. We will certify the results of corrupt elections that went our way and denounce the results of clean elections that didn't go our way. We destroy them in every underhanded way, and we are masters at that. The target nation doesn't stand a chance. And after we have destroyed them, we hold them up as an example of the failure of socialism.
It's mindblowingly unintelligent. We have an actual need to understand socialism better, and that can't happen as long as we keep undermining it. When Hugo Chavez turned his country sharply to the left, we should have helped him make it work instead of undermining it. We would have learned so much more that way.
But in our own western hemisphere, we have been atrocious. We haven't been very helpful to our western hemisphere neighbors, and every time a western hemisphere nation takes a sharp turn to the left, we resolutely undermine it in pretty much every way that we can. We will help their wealthy elite export their wealth. We will encourage Saudi Arabia to bump up oil production to undermine global oil prices. We will menace them so that they have to increase their military spending. We will fund the efforts of their various internal adversaries. We will certify the results of corrupt elections that went our way and denounce the results of clean elections that didn't go our way. We destroy them in every underhanded way, and we are masters at that. The target nation doesn't stand a chance. And after we have destroyed them, we hold them up as an example of the failure of socialism.
It's mindblowingly unintelligent. We have an actual need to understand socialism better, and that can't happen as long as we keep undermining it. When Hugo Chavez turned his country sharply to the left, we should have helped him make it work instead of undermining it. We would have learned so much more that way.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
