by While not agreeing with all the finer points of the article, its overall point of realism over idealism in geopolitics is correct. Look at deeds, not words. Words very often are "rational" justification as a veneer over the actual interests driving policy. The relentless expansion of the Anglo-American Empire based on "spreading freedom, democracy, and human rights" when it is actually about global domination is a case in point. This is just what empires do. Always have, ever will.It is a matter of distinguishing the stated agenda and hidden agenda, although the hidden agenda is often obvious to anyone who has the succumbed to the propaganda that creates the justification based on idealism, whether it is spreading Christianity or one's notion of Christianity, Islam or one's notion of
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While not agreeing with all the finer points of the article, its overall point of realism over idealism in geopolitics is correct. Look at deeds, not words.
Words very often are "rational" justification as a veneer over the actual interests driving policy.
The relentless expansion of the Anglo-American Empire based on "spreading freedom, democracy, and human rights" when it is actually about global domination is a case in point. This is just what empires do. Always have, ever will.
It is a matter of distinguishing the stated agenda and hidden agenda, although the hidden agenda is often obvious to anyone who has the succumbed to the propaganda that creates the justification based on idealism, whether it is spreading Christianity or one's notion of Christianity, Islam or one's notion of Islam, or Western liberalism as the 18th century way of replacing religion with a non-sectarian absolutism. Then, there are the fascist empires that are the extension of national interest, often based on some version of exceptionalism.
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