• Tachanka [comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    You do want a single uniform system of trade and travel, one which promotes a peaceful coexistence between nations

    Right, and as you go on to say further down in your post, this is what american unipolar hegemony only pretends to be.

    Begging people not to light a match is not unreasonable. But all of this concern is predicated on you maintaining your own prosperity at the expense of your globally southern neighbors.

    Yes. When people get couped/sanctioned/embargoed/invaded/occupied if they try to nationalize their natural resources, or if their labor rights are too strong, or if they don't take out a high interest IMF loan with prerequisite demands of privatization, etc. you don't really have a "uniform" system of trade, you have a hierarchical system of trade where certain regions are made into vassals, kept deliberately underdeveloped and overexploited, yada yada. Those at the helm of the imperialist unipolar global system of trade are so afraid of "near peer" power that it is willing to do any amount of violence or false/exaggerated accusations of violence to maintain that system.