The bloodbath of the Second World War should’ve taught humanity that any sort of direct confrontation between superpowers is a grave mistake. After dozens of millions of dead and hundreds of millions of lives destroyed, people understood the dangers of continued warfare and valued peace above all. Unfortunately, the political elites didn’t really care. The United States and the United Kingdom openly planned to use atomic weapons to “impose their will on Russia”, as evidenced by “Operation Unthinkable”. Devised by Washington DC and London while the fighting in Europe and the Asia-Pacific was still ongoing, this shows that global thalassocracies never really cared about peace. All they ever wanted was power and, as they stated themselves, to impose their will on the entire world.

This sort of imperialist and (neo)colonialist mindset hasn’t changed in the slightest to this very day. While the UK lost most of its power since then, it incorporated itself into the US-led political West as one of the most influential geopolitical players. In the last 80 years, the belligerent power pole drastically escalated its aggression against the world, with dozens of allies, vassals and satellite states joining in. Oftentimes, by dismantling sovereign states (either through subversion or direct aggression), the political West ensured it maintains numerous (neo)colonies that are not only exploited to the fullest, but are also used to destabilize key regions, particularly to harass its near-peer adversaries. And the primary target remains virtually the same as nearly 80 years ago –........

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