Russia funds separatist anti government groups in Donbas and annexed Crimea, while maintaining military bases across Eurasia specifically near their former subjects.
Russia funds Iran, responsible for the ongoing Yemeni famine, and as a cherry on top, Iran funds various groups across the middle east through Russian instruments.
(This is all ignoring the idea that they’ve refrained from projecting power more often at a global scale due to being peaceful, as opposed to lacking the capability entirely due to being relatively poor and weak.)
Iran is responsible for the Yemeni famine? Now I’ve heard it all.
Even if Iran is partly culpable, the US is not supplying funds to Iran, and is in fact sanctioning it (incl. medical supplies) during a global pandemic. I mean look at the military bases around Iran alone: https://i.redd.it/2x46rg6uid631.jpg
The current Iranian regime came into power as a result of a US coup of a democratically elected prime minister for the benefit of British oil. China doesn't even come close to the US foreign presence.
That can certainly advance things.
I think you misread 'to' in this sentence to mean 'in order to'. The intent by the parent comment was 'too busy...instead of develop[ing] the global reach'
We should pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy and not force our way of life, which itself is a compromise between different groups, onto other countries. Other countries need to come to a different modus vivendi compromise between themselves and with us, and have as much right to sovereignty as we do.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis "Another major reason why Khrushchev planned to place missiles on Cuba undetected was to "level the playing field" with the evident American nuclear threat. America had the upper hand as they could launch from Turkey and destroy the USSR before they would have a chance to react."
The world does not want "freedom, and democracy", or any ideology that has been used to destroy their countries. The use of illegal radioactive weapons in Iraq is resulting in deformities to this day. (e.g. here's the first link I could find: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/iraq-children-birth-defe...)
The Russians do not want a Western model of democracy, especially after the "shock therapy" that sent nationally funded industries into the private tyranny of oligarchs.
Read John Gray. True liberalism means "modus vivendi" politics, reaching a peaceful co-existence with other countries, rather than trying to change the world to realize some sort of utopia.
The communists tried it, the neoliberals tried it. In each case the results have been disastrous.
Are you claiming there exists some kind of banned thorium weapon? And that Americans are using it? And that therefore Americans are responsible for these birth defects?
The article you linked does not contain any support for this claim of American use of radiological weapons. It describes thorium birth defects near Tallil Air Base.
I don't see how these thorium birth defects have anything to do with radiological weapons. There are no known thorium weapons.
Thorium is, however, used in making alloys for jet avionics, though. And it turns out the Iraqis buried a shitton of planes at Tallil AB.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170201130725/http://okwreckcha...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-ur...
If you want to labour the point, here's the specific law: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul...
I'd consider birth defects to be "unnecessary suffering" (this exact wording was used in the Guardian article).
The topic is elaborated on here: Here's an additional link: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/VicULawJJl/2015/6.html
Thanks for your time. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Ultimately the question is not of great importance because no one actually enforces international law.
Have a nice day :) (said sincerely, without irony)
If any country is well positioned to de-escalate a nuclear arms race, it is the United States, and this is the action that it should take.