Jeffrey Sachs: BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions (consortiumnews.com)

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The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated in the subtitle of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Global Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.

Since the 1990s, the goal of American foreign policy has been “primacy,” aka global hegemony. The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Kazan brought together 35 countries with more than half the world population that reject the U.S. bullying and that are not cowed by U.S. claims of hegemony.

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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just in the last 24 years the US killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions; and now facilitating a genocide.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is nothing compared to the US crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq or the genocide it is enabling in Palestine. Not to mention the embargoes and sanctions on multiple countries now. The same sanctions that killed half a million children in Iraq in the 1990s.

You can’t defend the US crimes, so you have to scaremonger that the others will be worst. The thing is most of the world disagrees and knows better.

Remember: just because you believe in European supremacy and American exceptionalism, doesn’t mean that the rest of the world does or that it is even true.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

While true to a point, don’t paint Russia as being any better. They chose the war of aggression against Ukraine and are choosing not to stop it.

They were also in Afghanistan before the US, and destroyed it even more than the US has, between the two of them leaving the Taliban as the best local option remaining.

I sure don’t know what the solution is, as everything the world has tried so far has eventually failed, concentrating power in the hands of a few to abuse it.

BRICS could have a potential to control Russia while redistributing power, except that it includes Russia and China and India, all of which have a strong track record of concentrating power into the hands of the few, rejecting the voice of the people while putting on a western facade of being for the people.

Throw into this mix the upcoming results of global warming and neither bloc is going to make things better for the majority of humanity.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

My comment is about multipolarism being natural and long overdue. Not about whether any pole is “good” or “evil”.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

It’s definitely natural; it may be in humanity’s best interest to direct and curb it though. Unfortunately, that always seems to lead to corruption and inequality.