I cannot help but question how is this different to a USA carrier group in the South China Sea as a provocation to China?
Yes, but I have always viewed American exceptionalism, backed by moral righteousness, as the best way even if it's a charade. At the end of the day, all of the other systems harm everybody. Yes, America wants to be on top of the money pile, but at least everybody who works with us walks away better. Everybody who works with us walks away independent, sovereign, and just better overall.
America has gone without free education and free healthcare to fund an over bloated military budget just to protect everybody’s world trade on the seas. China, Russia, Europe, nobody else protects trade on the world’s seas. When a pirate attacks a ship anywhere around the world, local governments often do nothing. It is because the U.S. Navy is around, and because we intervene, that world trade remains secure. Including for US enemies.
So, at the end of the day, like I said, hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of years have proven that human autocracies fail quickly on a human scale/lifetime perspective of course. Only capitalist democratic societies have shown the greatest human prosperity, statistically AS A FACT, in human history.
