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Wait so if we suck for never always doing the right thing, how bad is everyone outside the west for not even doing it some of the time?
I dunno, the majority don't really go around acting like world police in the first place, so it's not really a comparable thing? Also, it's not like we just have a "whoopsy" and do the wrong thing every so often. It's a big old shit layer cake all the way down with a non-awful icing on top named WWII. We can topple democratic governments so that banana prices stay low, but if there isn't an obvious benefit or a lobbyist throwing money at it, then it doesn't happen. No country should be acting in the way America does to begin with, but if we're doing it anyway, we may as well at least try to demonstrate some measure of compassion and altruism in providing defensive aid.
What we're really talking about (or should be) is the elimination of war in modern society and that was the goal of the League of Nations and it's successor the United Nations. That in of itself was intended as a way for countries large and small to maintain the peace and contribute troops to defensively stopping wars from happening. I'm gonna say we suck yet again though, as the US/West just couldn't get off that sweet war juice and dismantle it's military industrial complex. War is money to a lot of folk, so the "defense" industry can keep greasing the right palms to keep the machine moving. We do what we want, regardless of what the U.N. or I.C.C. dictate, and in not being able to be held to account, we nullify the validity and effectiveness of those institutions.
ACAB, especially the world ones.
The west is not just America.
Didn't say that it was? If we're having a discussion on military spending, global policing, western powers military's and their combined lack of action, then the singular country accounting for 40% of all military spending worldwide (that's part of the west) deserves a bit more emphasis in my opinion. They're all failures, some failures just deserve more credit.