The earths’ resources are finite and we are in a competition for them. Technology and AI make the race for energy even more intense.
If your country was as large as the US or China it too would likely be a “bully.”
France is still a bully in Africa when it wants to be.
I also bought into all our cultural exports as a child and believed we were going to war for freedom and Democracy. As I get older I see the truth. It was all geopolitics.
Freedom and Democracy were just icing on the cake if we managed to preserve it wherever we were sending our kids to die.
If your country was as large as the US or China it too would likely be a “bully.”
France is still a bully in Africa when it wants to be.
I also bought into all our cultural exports as a child and believed we were going to war for freedom and Democracy. As I get older I see the truth. It was all geopolitics.
Freedom and Democracy were just icing on the cake if we managed to preserve it wherever we were sending our kids to die.