With the cabal of pedophiles ordering fascist paramilitaries to abduct five year olds off the streets and sending people to secret torture dungeons, while spending as much on the military as the next nine countries combined and explicitly saying that they can and will take whatever territory they feel like, it makes me think that maybe expanding US influence around the globe is a bad thing, and that having some countries willing to act as a counterbalance to that otherwise unstoppable force is a good thing, even if those countries are far from perfect.
In the past I’ve been criticized for “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and that sort of thing. How much more fascist does the US has to get before, “Who could stop the US if it went full Hitler?” starts being a valid concern?
My example of a world with a balance of power isn’t any better than a world dominated by a single power?
It wasn’t balanced.
It was more balanced than it is today. And especially more balanced than it was immediately after the the USSR collapsed.
No it wasn’t. It was divided along political and economic lines like it is today.
There used to be two opposing superpowers. Then there was one superpower, with nobody else powerful enough to keep it in check. How on earth was it not more balanced? How could anything be less balanced than a world with one superpower?
We had 2 groups wanting to knife fight with nukes, it wasn’t balanced, it wasn’t in check. There were more proxy wars during that time than other times.
Really other that the oligarchy we have went from one hostage situation to another.
Fuck any superpower.