What goes around comes around President Vladimir Putin has kept careful notes on the track record of the US and its use of “power over principle” in foreign policy. The US has long paraded around the world as a self-appointed policeman, invading countries and toppling legal governments under flimsy excuses, on the basis that its values must ipso facto be better than those of anyone who disagrees with it. Yet others are not allowed the same right, as only America has positive values, in its own eyes. The US’ sordid interventions, even those conducted with its NATO partners under the guise of international law, are better described as wars of aggression – and invariably are, sooner or later, by the people who live in the countries the US maintains it is liberating. The countries take the US at its word and then see what it actually does. In Iraq, Afghanistan,
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 22:11:23 +0000
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