When you grow up in any country reading basic textbooks about history and international relations, you’d most likely learn that the post-World War II world order was established by the United States. You will also read that America has always been the force for good against evil in the world, which was backed by the communists and later the Jihadists.

In order to create a balance in the chaotic order of global politics, the United Nations was created primarily by the United States with a detailed charter designed to administer justice in global affairs by preventing the weak nations from the wrath of the powerful ones. Truth be told, it has been the United States that has been the biggest violator of that very charter and that very strong nation that invades, harasses, sanctions and threatens other countries that do not follow the dictates of the imperial power nestled securely on the western shores of the Atlantic. Everytime an American president opens his mouth about Iran, for example, he issues a threat,........

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