"I don't like the US ruling the world with nonstop violence either, but if it wasn't us it'd be China!"
No unipolar global hegemon ever once existed in human history until three decades ago. Stop thinking of it as some unbreakable law of nature that there must always be one.
No unipolar global hegemon ever once existed in human history until three decades ago. Stop thinking of it as some unbreakable law of nature that there must always be one.
The idea that China wants to become the next unipolar dominator assumes (A) China has the same values and interests as western imperialists, and (B) that Beijing is looking at the US empire eating itself alive and thinking "Yeah, that looks awesome! That could be us someday!"
Saying you can't end the US empire because China will replace it is the same as saying you can't stop raping someone because then someone else would rape them.
Lots of people say this, but if you actually examine the sources of their claim it's always just China saying it wants a multipolar world and western propagandists falsely spinning that as evidence that China wants to become the next unipolar dominator.
https://twitter.com/madeupmike/status/1419859132434182144?s=20
Yes. Acting like the desire to conquer a planet is some kind of inescapable inherent trait in human DNA and not just some psycho mind virus unique to our society.
https://twitter.com/pleaslucian/status/1419860696330817560?s=20
Not even fucking Hitler wanted to take over the entire world; he just wanted to expand Germany's borders through western Europe, that's why he was fine with a Japanese empire. Acting like taking over the planet is an inherent drive within us all is a total propaganda fabrication.
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