"When Communism fell in 1990, as I have noted repeatedly here, the US assumed that our values and our influence were now supreme,. Others felt differently. Both the Chinese and Russian governments have repeatedly made clear that they do not accept this view, and that they are especially opposed to the idea that the world has a right to depose authoritarian governments on the grounds of human rights violations. Ironically, in so doing, they, not we, are standing up for the original principles of the UN, which was based, as it had to be, on respect for national sovereignty. Putin has spoken repeatedly and tellingly about the weaknesses in the U.S. world view. Last year, he decided to show us that we could not simply promote a pro-western government in Ukraine, annexing the Crimea and starting a border war. Now he has taken another huge step: adapting American principles for his own purposes in Syria...." DK
See my prior post and my comment below, re Ed Boyle's rant:
"....take a look at our constitution. It abhors nation states, monarchies, imperial powers, colonial power, and regional power. The only kind of society it envisions, politically, is that of yoeman farmers, small merchants, tradesmen, and the learned professions and clergy. It did not like the plantation system or slavery, but started out stuck with them, from Virginia on down. It did not like the idea of cities, even though that is where most of the colonial political power had come to lie, but was stuck with them too."
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