BRICS Summit Should End Neocon Delusions
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The majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams The recent BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, should mark the end of the Neocon delusions encapsulated

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.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    1·
    4 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.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
        11·
        4 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.

          • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
            1·
            3 days ago

            Oh, I thought I’d already made it clear that the west has totally failed to do the right thing here.

            One of the best historical examples may be the Persian empire.