Corinne Nita
2 min readApr 27, 2022

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China, Russia, and the West are imperialists. I'm not denying that, but I'm not going to support one imperialist power over the other just because I'm a US citizen. However, China hasn't invaded or overthrown any governments, and if we compare the US foreign policy track record to Xi's and Putin's we're clearly the deadliest imperialist.

The US has total control over the world, and it will do whatever it takes to maintain that power. Instead of collaborating with nations, the US dominates them, and if it cared about dictators or human rights violations it wouldn't have friendly ties with numerous leaders, but it does.

Our government cornered Russia, and Putin fell for it. Russia's relationship with Europe threatened the US, and the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations sanctioned and provoked Russia to limit its economic growth. Do you really think Putin would have invaded if the West embraced the Russian economy, and isn't trade supposed to reduce global conflicts?

Invading Ukraine gave the US exactly what it wanted; to smear Russia and eliminate global trade agreements. This is the same strategy used throughout the Cold War, yet we think the US is in the right, so we justify it, but we aren't the lesser evil.

At a time when nations should focus on the ravaging of our climate, we're warring over wealth and power. The US is the most powerful nation, and what does it do with this power? Keeping the peace and working toward a liveable future is a decision we decided not to take. We had thirty years of unipolarity, and we wasted the time in endless, pointless wars. Fuck, it devastates me.

Ukraine will suffer for decades and we did nothing to prevent it.

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Corinne Nita
Corinne Nita

Written by Corinne Nita

We need the social with the science to call it economics.

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