The United States from 1776 till 1945 at minimum.
Made alliances with Colonial Empires and Kingdoms and Monarchies and Communist Regimes and all sorts of weird governments to keep American interests intact.
Its weird now that we got a bunch of cunts in charge that believe every nation should be a democracy.
If every nation becomes a democracy, that won't America feel no more special.
Feels like the history books or views of history are being sanitized by this cult.
The first friendship treaty that the United States, was made with the monarchy of Morocco.
I guess that push is related to the American crony capitalist obsession with GDP and develop everything and everyone is a consumer in any way possible.
America requires every nation be a democracy because its much easier to rig elections in a democracy or flood it with cash. The other American tactic is to give the minority, who historically had no power, power. This has resulted in disasterous consequences (Afghanistan with the Northern Alliance, Iraq).
The difference between this, China and Russia is that China and Russia do not require countries to change. China has always played the long game. They project power economically. To whit, when there was a coup in Zimbabwae, the military enacting the coup asked China for permission first. This has never happened with America.
And all of this is culminating in Ukraine i do believe. The US cant properly support Ukraine and all of its AOs right now even with the eurocucks tossing in behind them. china getting more and more involved can only spell disaster for NATO as it will further push them as THE superpower going forwards. all in all this could be the fall of the American empire.
Adding to what
@Fatniggo1488 said it's been astounding to see as an Anti-NATO coalition has begun to coalesce. I see other nations following China's lead because, like China, they know if Russia falls they're next. If Russia wins, its the beginning of the end for American hegemony.
Again, despite Henry Kissinger's old age and war criminal status, he's still sharp and spot on; he warned then not to do this and to negotiate with Russia with respect to NATO encroaching on its borders, because he foresaw what's happening now. Realpolitik is extremely relevant when it comes to Europe, especially Eastern Europe
We're already in 'End of Empire' phases, and a victory in Ukraine will not reverse that. What has happened is the removal of Russia from SWIFT and the sanctions resulted in fuck all. It showed that America and Europe are strained and their systems are rotten, that they can easily be manipulated, and flouting economic and international law mean absolutely nothing.
What really matters is money, and there are large steps being taken to remove the US dollar as the reserve currency. Saudi Arabia is getting chilly at us, Russia is courting Iran as well as China, Iran is turning out to be the fundamental ME power that we cannot do anything with. We've alienated India to the extent that we've risked an Eastern Bloc of Russia, India and China. That we don't have control over India where it looks to the good of its own people rather than globalist paypigs and capitalist faggots.
The West is also embroiled in struggle right now as well, with France being on the verge of revolt, the banking system being rotten even more (again) and massive inflation. We're looking at overextension. Since we project power militarily, it costs us insane amounts of money. Think if we spent as much as China on defense what we could do domestically.
But the thing is we cannot project power economically like China and Russia. In China, all business is subservient to government. Even if a private enterprise does something in another country, China could make demands and it would have to follow them, because it is still a state entity. No laws, red-tape, hearings, etc. Its just, "Do it" and it gets done. In the US? Forget about it. They'd whine to the international economic bodies, it'd have to go through the courts, all that shit. This is why America is forced to project with its military. Because it is subservient to business. Which, shocker, doesn't really make for a good country.
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