[jazzyjackson]

DoD and American exceptionalists also believe American foreign policy is in service of humanity’s long term well being

[temp8830]

It is all for the benefit of man. We even get to see the man himself daily on television.

[viking123]

I think the last few months have shown pretty clearly in whose service this policy is. If China went to attack Taiwan, west has no moral high ground left.

[mapt]

Yeah, I don't think so any more. The sort of lofty Cold War rhetoric about leading the world, if it was ever legitimately believed by the people spouting it, is gone. A very different attitude has taken hold, which puts a zero sum ethnonationalism at the core.

[Balinares]

One of the hallmarks of fascist thinking is the dehumanizing of opponents and minorities, so within their own messed up framework, they might even mean it.