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Why should they be allowed to built military bases in the US?
For the same reasons US military bases are being allowed.
So the US should undermine its national security because of moral principles? You think the United States of America, currently the world’s greatest military power, would undermine its national security and strategic interests entirely due to moral principles? Apparently, you live in fantasy-land where nations act morally. In the real world, nations act to advance and secure their national interests. That’s the world we live in. Wake up bro.
(continued)….And what country has EVER undermined itself due to moral principles? European nations dealt with each other through cold-blooded power politics for 300 years. China’s foreign policy throughout its 2000 year history was barbarian management; balancing barbarians against each other to prevent them from posing a threat to Chinese civilization. The closest ANY nation came to acting on moral principles was the United States. For other countries, moral principles were unheard of.
Really? So stop trying to play the good Samaritan, cause the crowds aren’t amused. If the World hates you, don’t play dumb, look at the mirror and blame your own effing self.
The world doesn’t hate the United States anymore than it hated other great powers in the past. However, the values and ideals that America spreads to the world do inspire people everywhere. Most people in the world do like the ideas of democracy, individual liberty, strong rule of law, a foreign policy that at least considers moral principles, and international organizations that can mediate international conflicts and prevent wars. These are AMERICAN ideas applied to the world affairs.
(continued)…Thus, don’t be upset with how the US conducts its foreign policy. In terms of moral principles, the US foreign policy is as moral a foreign policy you are going to get. Other countries don’t even consider moral principles. Russia and China conduct their foreign policy without an ounce of moral considerations, rather they focus on strategy. America is not only a single incarnation of virtue, as much as it wants to be, but we are also a power like any other with strategic objectives.
You are the one upset because the US foreign policy has failed and the crowds don’t believe in fake claims of moral superiority.
Failed in what sense? The international system under US dominance has been very stable and relatively prosperous.
keyword: relatively.
the whole world has been relatively very stable and prosperous since the beginning of humanity, depending where you are relatively speaking.
libo what? either get updated or shutup.
I have no clue why u said what u said. Either say something constructive or dont bother commenting.
Then how can you say US foreign policy failed after saying what you just said?
Failed because you are still living in your mental bubble, thinking it hasn’t. Go around the world to see prosperity and stability for yourself. I’ll give you a suggestion: avoid the prosperous and stable areas, and you will see the world as it really is, way bigger than your little personal bubble of prosperity and stability that you think has been created by US dominance and foreign policy.
Are you denying that China, India and Brazil have improved in the last 30 years ago? I don’t need to go around the world. I am from Albania, a former communist country, with a GDP of $4,000 per capita. All I am saying is that world is better off NOW than it was before. The world was even more poor and miserable before.
The humans species have been evolving, improving materially and making life easier and more prosperous in general. This process has been happening continually since the first human walked the Earth. But betterment is a human trait found everywhere, not only in the US. As I said, leave your comfortable bubble and look elsewhere. You will find not only misery and poverty on a larger scale than ever before, but unbelievable horrors you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.
“…on a larger scale than ever before”. Look at any statistics, poverty rates are declining worldwide. That’s a fact. You want to deny facts?
What? Poverty levels have never been worse, and are getting worse and worse. The systemic accumulation of property and capital by small elites and the plundering of natural resources are worldwide problems.
Poverty rates are getting worse? So you are denying facts…
Yes, poverty levels are getting worse, not only in the USA, and very soon there will be 7 billion human beings in the whole planet. Do your research and find out how many of those are currently living in absolute poverty.
You need to understand some basic statistics before you sound any more ridiculous. I’m talking about poverty RATES, not raw number of those living in poverty. The population is growing, so of course more people will be living in poverty. But that’s not the important information. The important information is the ratio between poor to non-poor people. The facts are, and I already checked them, that China, India and Latin America have experience a LARGE DECREASE in poverty RATES in the past decades
I am talking about the World’s population, not only 3 countries out of 250.
World Bank’s Development Research Group said global poverty rates were cut in half from 1990 to 2010. A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research estimated that world poverty rates declined by a whopping 80% from 1970 to 2006. An article from the Brookings Institution also confirms that global poverty levels were cut by half from 1990 to 2010. I gave you three sources that all confirm the same thing - drastic decline in world poverty rates. Name me one source that says otherwise.