Understanding the tyrannical nature of the US government would help you understand geopolitics.
The US government doesn't "fight tyranny," the US government IS tyranny.
You would always be confused seeing the events unfolding at the geopolitical level without taking into consideration the tyrannical regime that currently dictates the world order. Looking beneath its iron armor of liberty you would find the tyranny flowing through its blood vessels, which would bring clarity to your worldview as you would no longer be thinking of the US regime as just one government whose influence is confined to its borders.
The US regime is multifold of whatever picture you have of tyranny in your mind and it’s not even a hyperbole. It’s no less irrefutable than “water is wet.” Yes, there are other countries you can label tyrannical, but none of them comes even close to the tyranny that the US regime possesses under any stretch of the definition of the word. The US can be less tyrannical toward its own citizenry than other countries you’re told to be afraid of by the TV man but all of them start looking like a saint when you zoom out of the boundaries and look at the global picture.
I understand that making this claim about a government that spent decades convincing people of its role to be “fighting tyranny” is going to raise a lot of eyebrows, but the raised eyebrows should think about the horrific realities of the US foreign policy before denying/criticizing/smearing such a claim. It’s not absurd that someone is making that claim, it’s absurd that not everyone is making that claim.
Its military is currently encircling the planet with hundreds of bases that exist not to protect its national security but to preserve its hegemony. It has been waging wars all over the world which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions in this century alone. It forces other countries into submission by deliberately starving their population with sanctions, funding religious extremists and proxy armies, carrying out CIA coups, and election interferences. It enjoys the stability of its currency by destabilizing the economies of the third world.
You can’t name a country that represents even a fraction of the tyranny of the US government at the global level. It’s not China or Russia or Iran or North Korea or Cuba or any other country that the Western media glues the sticker of tyranny upon. You can argue that they are tyrannical toward Chinese or Russians or Iranians or North Koreans or Cubans respectively, but comparing their national tyranny with the global tyranny of the US government is childish.
Hypocrisy and ignorance are essential ingredients for the preparation of a worldview that considers the US to be a bastion of liberty and its targeted nations to be bastions of oppression. That’s why you see both these ingredients drip off of the statements uttered by the officials of the US power structure and its stans about geopolitics. For such a worldview to taste good the bootlickers of the US regime run toward whataboutism and accuse those critical of the US foreign policy of being biased toward tyranny. When in reality, they’re the ones using whataboutism to divert the conversation away from what it should be about: the most oppressive government in the world.
If you think of the US government to be idealistic and virtuous with not much influence over global happenings, as you’re told by the media, the worldview that you’re going to form will always place the US in the good guy spot and its target in the bad guy spot. If you are unaware of the tyrannical nature of the US regime, you’d always accept what it has to say about foreign governments uncritically, you’d always support its disastrous military interventions abroad, you’d always support it killing a million Iraqis, you’d always support it trying to extradite a journalist for telling the truth i.e., you’d always support it to be more tyrannical with time and have a much less clear understanding of the world events.
There is no valid argument that can justify opposing the tyranny of [insert whatever country the media told you to hate] while supporting the US foreign policy and if someone thinks it’s justified then he neither understands tyranny nor does he oppose it. If global tyranny is an elephant, the US represents its entire body except for the little tail.
Among two bullies, one who bullies just one class and the other who bullies the entire school, which one do you think deserves more attention, criticism, and opposition? Of course, the latter. When you try to be “fair” and distribute your criticism equally, you’re encouraging the bigger bully to continue its bullying because that’s what they want - less attention toward their actions.
If you’re in it to resist tyranny, you have to start exposing the tyrannical impulses of the most tyrannical government. Everything else is psycho-babble conjecture.
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