America? I know that's not who you mean, but in my mind America and Americans are the World's Biggest Spoiled Child. Roughly half of my country (maybe more) feels actively entitled to living in an unchallenged superpower--with no regards for the human consequences. Tens of millions of people here crap their pants at the thought of us not having such an enormous military that we can tacitly intimidate anyone into doing what we want.
For them, international relations is a zero-sum game where you are either a bully or the one being bullied. Big rich boy can't comprehend why the other kids don't want to kiss his ass. Big rich kid can't comprehend other kids treating each other as equals deserving of respect and dignity.
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Diagnoses: AS, Depression, General & Social Anxiety
I guess I just wasn't made for these times.
- Brian Wilson
Δυνατὰ δὲ οἱ προύχοντες πράσσουσι καὶ οἱ ἀσθενεῖς ξυγχωροῦσιν.
Those with power do what their power permits, and the weak can only acquiesce.
- Thucydides
Conservatism discourages thought, discussion, consensus, empathy, and hope.