Geoffrey Klien
US as the International Police
As I mentioned before, the US likes to laud itself as the international police and the keepers of the peace. With my last entry you'll begin to see that's quite funny—parading around with the rules yet ignoring them yourself—and that they shouldn't be the one with the power. But, that's not even the beginning.
Another example of their hypocricy is the fact that they're the only ones who get to have nukes. They flipped out when
the Soviet Union made some and then there was that whole thing in Cuba; the DPRK making them. Basically, the US doesn't like anyone having a
bargaining-chip against them. Obviously an enemy with weapons isn't good, but, this plays right back into the US propagandizing their enemies
and getting the people to hate them.
In peace talks with the DPRK the US cannot just have peace or an end to the war, they need the DPRK to give up all their weapons, stop producing
them, and all that other balogna. Now, if you remember, that exact thing happened to Libya. They were coerced into giving up their weapons in
peace talks with the UN, and without that crucial bargaining-chip they invaded Libya, tortured Gadaffi to death, imposed a collapsing government
that screwed the people of Libya over, and left it as is. All of that, by the way, to get to the oil money Gadaffi gave back to the people and
give it back to France. They destroyed a country and left its people to suffer just for some oil money.
Anyone dumb enough to give up weapons to the US or UN after seeing what happened to Libya deserves what's coming to them.
The US really shouldn't get to decide who has weapons, a functioning government, or a functioning economy with international
trade. That's another thing; they economically bully countries through the UN. Why should they be allowed to tell the UN who they can and
can't trade with?
They used this tactic, again, on the DPRK. After destroying most buildings and farmable land, they put sanctions on important things like building
material, medicine, and food. Despite all this, the DPRK persisted into the '90s where they faced a great famine. Through the famine the US refused
to lift sanctions or allow too much food to enter the country. This is obviously an attempt to collapse the country through economic hardship, but,
even if you're stupid, it's not a very kind thing. Then, mere years after the famine, the UN reacts to the testing of nuclear weapons by blasting
the DPRK with horrendous sanctions.
Now, I have a theory. The US has strategically destroyed a country's weapons and government before; quite effectively too. So, why is it so hard to do it to the DPRK? The reason they can do things like that in Iran is because they have Israel giving them intel and safe-haven. They have South Korea right next to the damn country, so, why don't they attack? I think it's because they need an enemy for the US to be mad at. They could probably go in very easily and do whatever, but they don't. If they have a scary enemy, whose poor but also really powerful, that also happens to be communist, they can literally do whatever they want.
Last thing to mention is just how much of a hand the US has in the actions of other nations. People (politicians, then through people)
will tell you that North Koreans can't leave and how they're trapped. It's easy enough to believe, especially given the decades of propagandizing, but,
I bet many people'd be surprised to see it's actually the UN that limits it.
United Nations Security Counsil Resolution 2397.
They literally do it themselves. Notice it came after the launching of a weapon, something that happens often, and they felt the need to restrict fuel too. They've also sanctioned petroleum and even medicines.
This should honestly just be "how the UN enables evil and hegemony."
