03-29-2021, 12:21 PM
(03-28-2021, 07:57 PM)Einzige Wrote: It's always amusing to see that Eric The Green is a Rumsfeldian neoconservative behind the veneer of hippie.
It goes back to the American Revolution, which saw its emerging USA as a shining city on a hill that would be an example to the world, a phrase Reagan often used; and later to Manifest Destiny in the 19th century and to the Munich Doctrine in the 20th that says the West needs to stand up to aggressors and avoid appeasement, and even more to the French Revolution whose early Girondist leaders offered their military services to any people seeking to recover their liberty, a cause Napoleon took upon himself for his own glory (the new boss not being much better than the old). Once launched, The Western WEIRD revolution has continued, in fits and starts, to shape the world and overturn the old authority, whether by imperialism, or by dissemination among the people rising up for liberty and the spread of tech.
That's the best way, but sometimes genocidal tyrants can't be moved, and the people need to take up arms, which also usually doesn't work out too well. And the USA can help the people rise up, but should only do so if asked by the people and their alternative state, and not through unprovoked invasion, preventive war or bombing-- unlike what Bush and Rumsfeld proposed and carried out in the People for a New American Century project.