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Israel-Gaza Megathread #3
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They don't value global peace, because they don't know a world before it.
Maybe I'm a bit tired right now but I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. I guess the 'global peace' means the post-1945 world (or maybe the post-1989 one, I don't know), but surely the countries of the Global South all existed before 1945 and have a long history (and memory) in general.
Most countries in the global south did not exist as independant nation states pre ww2. Most were coming out of a colonial era of subjugation.
Most of these countries don't think about global peace. Their concerns have always been local to their geographic neighborhood.
Our ability to carelessly navigate across international waters
Banning the kind of explicit colonialism that marked the 19th century
Being able to trade your resources with the highest bidder, instead of one that has an army on your shores
...and many more
Having global peace enforced on us by a global superpower with a certain value system has led to the deliberate creation of this modern world. The Global South does not appreciate just how anomalous this peace is and how fickle it can be if nations start pushing too many buttons and pitting competing interests against each other to a maximum extent.
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Maybe I'm a bit tired right now but I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. I guess the 'global peace' means the post-1945 world (or maybe the post-1989 one, I don't know), but surely the countries of the Global South all existed before 1945 and have a long history (and memory) in general.
Most countries in the global south did not exist as independant nation states pre ww2. Most were coming out of a colonial era of subjugation.
Most of these countries don't think about global peace. Their concerns have always been local to their geographic neighborhood.
Having global peace enforced on us by a global superpower with a certain value system has led to the deliberate creation of this modern world. The Global South does not appreciate just how anomalous this peace is and how fickle it can be if nations start pushing too many buttons and pitting competing interests against each other to a maximum extent.
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