Mutual interests tend to keep things civilised
Mutual interests tend to keep things civilised
You could make that argument, but that is dependent strongly on everybody being rational actors and there is plenty of evidence that dictatorships are not rational actors.
The reality is that it will take multiple generations for us to get rid politicians who when zoomed out act like teenage boys, and we can argue all we want.
Everybody - "Welcome, US of A."
USA - "Today I haven't orchestrated a coup in (checks paper)[0] ... six years?"
*applause*
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Guinean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
That would probably require a different point of view than labelling China as the enemy, or keeping them pre-industrial and poor in order to control them, as the US has done repeatedly in many south American countries.