THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THE IMPEDIMENT TO WORLD PEACE
1 – The legacy agrarian empires of China, Russia, Persia(Iran), the want of empire in the middle east, and the harmful borders left over from the (dead) age of agrarian empires. And the ‘elites’ that profit from (the corruption) governing those empires.
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2 – The universal desire given the prosperity made possible by the industrial revolution, for ethic self-determination, by sovereignty that requires small, homogenous nation-states capable of low power distance, high trust, governments that produce commons for the benefit of their people, and the highest redistribution with the least competition, especially for power.
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3 – The USA/British postwar goal of preventing another world war by creating free trade, ending the necessity of agrarian empires to conquer, subjugate, ‘own’ colonies and capture trade routes. This strategy consisted of:
… (a) demanding states respect borders, free trade, and focus on economy and human rights, instead of conquest. … (b) In exchange the USA would police the world system of communication, transport and trade, and;
… (c) creating the Bretton Woods agreement, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. The purpose of the agreement was to promote international economic cooperation and stability after World War II by establishing a system of fixed exchange rates and providing financial assistance to countries in need.
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4 – This policy was successful in the greatest decrease in poverty in human history. But it did not resolve ethnic-and-border disputes nor prevent the conversion of remaining agrarian empires to remain agrarian empires, but using communist justification rather than cultural or economic or pursuit of power to justify the means of conquest and government.
The American position is that all border conflicts and wants of ethnic self-determination should be solved by peaceful negotiation and separation. However, the more resource-based the economy, or the more corrupt the government, or the less developed the society, economy, and government, the more conflict that remains.
So the Americans tried to prevent empires, prevent conquest, and force peaceful pursuit of self-determination. But this was optimistic. So Americans ‘waited out the problem letting time force people to solve it themselves’.
However, conflicts and despots still arose, and Americans and allies had to defend human rights and international peace by the use of force. In most cases this kept the peace. And in other cases this was futile – or worse.
And for Americans, this resulted in the rise of world standards of living, but a decline in American standards of living. Especially opening our borders to free trade that benefits other countries but harms our laboring, working and middle classes.
So Americans have grown tired of policing the world, tired of losing our soldiers, tired of Europeans free-riding on American soldiers, working classes, and economy, while at the same time claiming they are culturally superior. Tired of a ‘thankless’ world. And Americans want to stop.
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5 – (This makes me angry) Americans sell the ‘good’ of democracy to the world. But American success is due to our rule of law and obedience to the constitution. And this obedience is partly due to American ‘religiosity’ to both faith and constitution. So, democracy is a privilege that results from producing rule of law, and respect for rule of law. Rule of law produces economies. Economies raise people out of poverty, into education and experience that makes it possible for them to possess the incentives, and knowledge, and wisdom necessary to vote ‘even a little’ intelligently.
But worse, the Jewish class Marxists moved from Europe to America, creating cultural marxism and race-marxism to undermine American culture and institutions by creating hatred and decadence. So, thos is what ‘democracy’ means to the world. Not rule of law. And they don’t want it.