What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com.au:
Headlines in the 2020s are continually dominated by the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the US brinkmanship against China with Taiwan.
The US asserts that it has been well within its rights to bring NATO to Russia’s doorstep and convert Ukraine into a heavily-armed NATO asset, and that it is perfectly entitled to menace China with military encirclement and its provocations with Taiwan. When Russia and China contend that these actions pose a threat to their national security interests, US empire managers argue that no nation is entitled to a “sphere of influence” beyond their own territory, and that the US is just helping its good friends on the borders of its top two geopolitical rivals protect themselves.
If I may, I have a solution that could help the US make its arguments a bit more convincingly: simply welcome Russia and China to amass military forces in Latin America.
If the US made it clear that it would do nothing to prevent Russia and China from militarizing the nations south of the US border to the furthest extent possible, after those military presences begin to appear empire critics will no longer be able to claim that the US is the clear and obvious aggressor in its conflicts with Moscow and Beijing.
