It’s going to take a long time but ultimately one can only hope for a more balanced world.
Question is, will Westerners manage to keep their democratic values such as individual liberty, the rule of law and the protection of minorities in a world where theocracies and fascist states have more power?
Sure thing. Germany, UK and Italia waking up every morning trying to figure out how to have more unfaithful spouses stoned, more blasphemers beheaded and more women hidden under fabric bags
Iran was quite progressive before the US intervened to secure oil.
Syria had a strong left wing separatist movement before the US intervened and repeatedly betrayed them.
The extremist right theocrats in Afghanistan were kept safe during the war and reinstated (but the moderates and extremist left wing are dead).
Ethiopia, Sudan same story.
The Saudi Arabian and Israeli theocrats are allies of the west. The west supports the genocide Israel’s ultra-conservative government is performing.
Niger has been destabilized by france for decades to keep them from controlling their energy resources. Just because what russia is going to do is worse, doesn’t mean the existing corruption (and thus the ability for russia to trigger the coup) wasn’t the direct result of western imperialism.
It is publicly stated policy of the fascist evangelicals in the US to spread homophobia and hate via “charities”.
At every turn, anyone outside the imperial core with resources has the most corrupt and theocratic element assisted by the west. The US brings the opposite of democracy or progressivism, and there are many countries in europe that are just as bad.
And that’s not to mention the growing fascist movements in the UK and Italy who would love to go back to stoning women.
Clearly you have an altered perception of reality or an agenda to point Western democracies as the villain in the story.
I am not denying the fact that Western countries have initiated and supported some dictatorships that would align with their interests. But these regimes are light years away from fascism and theocracy. You can not in good faith compare military dictators in the Sahel with de jure theocracies like Afghanistan and Iran.
Unless you want to prove that every regime is corrupt and that democracy is no better than dictatorships.
Also, the fact that these democracies are struggling peacefully with inner extremists without falling into outright dictatorship like China and Russia is enough to prove that yes, they are better.
You are just stating alternative fact to support your narrative.
War is profitable. We need to make war less profitable. Then grievances will be solved by other means. Destroying the Western imperialist system will go a long way to making that a reality.
Russia is the 2nd biggest weapons dealer in the world, China is the 4th, so for me that “Western imperialist system” part is hollow. We cannot bring down every large government of the world and simultaneously solve every tribal grievance.
Your standards are off. Weapons dealer is not the standard. The West dominated 80% of the world’s entire population. The standard is not weapon sales it’s using war to expand and fund with global western order
It's just the next world expo. I'm not sure why a Japanese newspaper would explain what the Osaka Expo is, when it's pretty much impossible over here to not see mentions of it fricking everywhere, or that horror show of a mascot?
...sorry, I live in Osaka and I've seen far too much of Myaku-Myaku on ads EVERYWHERE. It's even on the damn manhole covers.
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