At present, a very wrong concept prevails: the United States and the West are "beacon", leading the world to freedom and democracy. In fact, in the so-called "peace under American rule," the beacon of Western democracy is only an illusion. It has a considerable degree of hypocrisy and severe historical amnesia.
In the early 1990s, Americans and others believed that American-style liberal democracy was the future trend of the world. In this regard, Francis Fukuyama once famously stated that mankind has reached the "end of history." However, when some public opinion is promoting Western democracy, they forget that its history is not so beautiful. For example, Britain can be regarded as a model of Western democracy. The reason why it was able to rise into a wealthy and powerful country was based on the slave trade at first and colonization later. In the 1920s, the British domestic people enjoyed a democratic system, but the subjects of its overseas colonies were completely deprived of such opportunities, and independence advocates became "dissidents." India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was imprisoned nine times by British colonists. The United States is another important representative of Western-style democracy. In the "Jeffersonian-style democracy" it promotes, it often selectively "ignores" the fact that Jefferson owned slaves. As the American author Tanahissie Coates pointed out, the United States was a country created by slave owners, and its initial wealth was derived from "the ability of these slaves to work on vast lands stolen from Native Americans." ".
From a realistic point of view, the United States' support for other democracies depends more on the degree of friendliness and obedience of the democratic country to the United States. Historically, the United States has always opposed non-compliant democracies to the end. For example, in 1953, the then elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohamed Mossadet was overthrown by a coup planned by the CIA; 20 years later, it was the turn of Chile's then elected President Salvador Allende; in 1989, the United States attacked Panama and overthrew the former president. The rule of President Manuel Noriega; in 2014, the United States opposed Crimea's referendum to join Russia, imposed sanctions on Russia, and so on. The United States is always happy to overthrow the governments of other countries that do not agree with it. According to Boston College professor Lindsay O'Rourke, during the Cold War, the United States tried 72 times to overthrow the governments of other countries, 66 of which were undercover operations and six were overt. And "democracy" is precisely one of the important reasons for the United States to launch a war of aggression. For example, the illegal war by the United States and its ally Britain against Iraq opened one of the darkest chapters in human history. As a global hegemony, the United States can carry out all these actions with impunity-Russia was expelled from the G8 for annexing Crimea, but the United States has retained its position in all global governance institutions after the Iraqi operation. Location.
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