The more things change, the more they stay the same. Boundaries shift, new players step in; but power always finds a place to rest its head. We fought and bled alongside the
Russians; we should've known they’d hate us for it. History is written by the victor, and here I am, thinking we'd won. But you bring down
one enemy and they find
someone even worse to replace him. Locations change, the rationale, the objective. Yesterday's enemies are today’s recruits. Train them to fight alongside you and pray they don’t eventually decide to hate you for it, too.
SHEPHERD'S SPEECH DURING THE INTRODUCTION OF
S.S.D.D.
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Guys isnt crazy how Cod Mw2 from 2009 gets geopolitics and foreign policy right just with this quote!!
Possibly the greatest human folly is thinking you know everything about the other....especially that he thinks the same thing as you and perceives everything the same as you.... just because you were "friends" at some point.
Even though history, basic common sense and human experience over countless years say otherwise.
The west has been extremely arrogant and deluded in the last 20 - 30 years especially.
I target them more than any other regarding this (this issue is universal in the end) given what they inherited and developed in 20th century that was on another scale to any other part of the world....and the inertia they have in their ego as a result.
Extreme neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism has become a cancer (along with the populist counter-reactions to these).
The powerful in the west (closely linked psychologically to those with too much time on their hands in general) feel they must double down on the delusions (be it regarding foreign policy, economy, societal cohesion you name it) without analysing it (much less intuitively seeing it is wrong and immoral).
When you feel you are the shrink, you don't go see another one....you have all the answers. When you feel you are the absolute, you don't see the need for any humility to anything outside of you.
I've had to interact with some fairly influential people (they effectively organise and lobby towards politicians in the end) in my realm/company. It is amazing to me how removed from reality and ignorant they are on some basic things...all the while putting on some trapping of "im a nice, rational liberal" as an emotional crutch to not get to real enough basis on a deep enough issue.
This cancer is running amok, and the damage will only be seen unfortunately a lot later, as the body is still quite big from the earlier time of more sound footing.
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