Alex Christoforou
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Contrary to Dr Sachs, I think that US interventions that ruin the target country are working as intended. The analogy that seems apt is with the way spiders feed. Having trapped a prey insect, the spider inserts a tube that pierces the prey’s exoskeleton, and pumps in digestive fluid. The prey’s insides are liquidified, after which the spider sucks it out. Just so, US interventions get rid of governments and their armed forces, leaving the nation defenceless. Then US corporations and “entrepreneurs” (bandits) descend and loot the place. If anyone resists, the USA labels them “terrorists” and kills them or… Read more »
Naturally most countries prefer the rule of law to the rule of untrammelled power – because they don’t have the power. The USA sees things the other way around, because it does have the power.
Did I hear Professor Sachs call Barack Obama “a nice man”? I am amazed that such a distinguished scholar should seem unaware that “a man may smile and smile, and yet be a villain”.
Obama is one of the worst humans I have ever heard of.
I disagree with Mr Mercouris that organisations like the UN help preserve peace. The reality is slightly different, and corresponds exactly to the Melian Dialogue.
“[R]ight, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.
In that sense the USA, Russia, and China are equals in power. Therefore they can discuss what is right and what is wrong, and interact only through negotiation and diplomacy. That is so whether or not the UN exists.
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