Rasta Roy
Well-Known Member
They don't want to run our country, lol...well kinda technically I suppose. Russia's goal is to destabilize the U.S. so they can no longer play the largest role on the world stage. America has been a guiding hand in world culture and politics, shaping developing countries in our own image (sort of, not too much that we can't take advantage of their natural resources). Pushing a world rhetoric that leans toward principles of democracy, and human rights. By destabilizing the U.S., Russia can step into this role (although it's more likely that China seizes the role).
The real question is; is this a bad thing?
The answer...
No.
But also yes.
No, because does the U.S. need to be the country shaping a world identity? We barely have an identity ourselves. We have words that barely sum up our common ideals; words like freedom and liberty. But if you ask me, from Michigan, what those words mean in action in a society and you ask someone from Montana; you're going to get two very different answers. And probably a different answer from most of the 50 states. We have issues that they have no where else in the world (crippling healthcare costs, mass gun violence, lack of access to available services), who are we to go around and tell developing countries what works and what doesn't?
But yes, it is bad. Very. Very. Bad.
Flawed as the U.S. may be, our attempts at a thing that resembles a free society has quite a bit less human rights violations than fucking Russia. If you think Russia should be the country setting the world culture than I invite you to go stay in Russia for a few weeks. That should be enough time to give you the full experience. Evaluate your feelings then. America has corruption. Russia is corruption if it were ever a tangible breathing thing.
