I find no difference between historical slavery
in the USA and the current US foreign policy. The idea of slavery is based on
the absolute superiority of white men over other human species (even white
women). This presumption led to the possibility to treat them like animals. The
idea behind the superiority of the US
over other countries is based on the same presumption - the long-term US experience shows that other people do not
deserve any compassion. Actually, this compassion
exists in the reverse order of their other countries possibility to harm the USA.
In this sense I do not understand why people in
the developed countries outside the US protest against slavery, not against the
USA, which considers them as serfs. The only reason I can see behind such
behavior is that all developed countries consider less developed countries as slaves.
This is a long term tradition and to blame historical slavery is easier than
the current suppression (nonequivalent exchange).
Instructively, the countries outside the
well-known slavery-involved club (remarkably this the club of the most
developed countries and their fortress-bank-countries) do not follow the protests
against slavery. They have no guilt feeling and can blame only slavery
beneficiaries, i.e. the USA, the UK, Japan, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, The Kingdom of Netherlands, etc. However, some US satellites have the slave-master
relationships in a different incarnation: subsidies from the EU or trade
agreement with the USA still rule this
world and blaming the slavery beneficiaries is risky for their subsidies. The satellite opinion means nothing - these countries are like slaves.
A few countries are free from
the slavery guilt and subordinate bonds. These countries can blame the historical slavery beneficiaries and the
current US foreign policy considering others like slaves. Why don't they do that?
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