American logic, summarized
We hate communism.
We shipped jobs to China because labor was cheaper. We are a free market society.
We hate communism.
We love freedom.
We hate dictatorships.
We invade countries to liberate them from their dictators. First Iraq. Soon, Venezuela. We also liberate them of their oil.
China stole jobs from American companies. (The American companies’ Boards of Directors and CEOs were asleep in their beds while this theft took place.)
We hate communism.
So we will fight back by adding tariffs. That way, American companies will be encouraged to build factories where Americans don’t want to work.
We hate communism.
Free healthcare is communism.
Therefore, 34 of the world’s 35 industrialized nations offering free healthcare are communist countries.
We love to promote democracy. That is why we have 817 military bases and presences around the world.
Russia has just over 20.
China has three but is rumored to be adding one more.
America loves fair and open democracy. That’s why we have sophisticated mechanisms to protect it. Such as the Electoral College.
We believe in free speech.
That is why we inspect the mobile phones of anyone entering the US: to ensure they are exercising their right to free speech. If they are not, we send them to hotels in El Salvador.
We hate communism.
We love freedom.
We are the country the rest of the world looks up to.
Perverse and hypocritical = USA ….
What we call support for democracy around the world usually translates into support for access to resources and positioning of our military in other countries. We’ve overthrown popular governments and installed autocrats and dictatorships as long as we get access to resources and military bases. Not saying this isn’t also true of other powers—Russia and China today. It’s just that we’re hardly the exceptional “good guy” we like to think we are.
We can discuss that we were indeed “the good guys” in WWII fending off the Nazis and expansionist Japan…. But it took Japan’s misbegotten attack on Pearl Harbor to get the US into that war — and many of the most influential elite in the US (e.g., Lindbergh and Joseph Kennedy) worked hard to keep us from opposing Hitler.
Today we are seeing this again in our undermining Ukraine’s right against Russia’s invasion and our backing away from NATO.
Today the US is again being run for oligarchs by oligarchs.
As Walter Cronkite would say, “That’s the way it is.”
Sadly ….