US keeps toppling democratic goverments then pretends to be the champion of democracy worldwide.
- US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help.
- As far as hegemons so, US has been the least bad in world history. Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Text book bribery.
It is a sham. And the mask is off, for the whole world to see the true face.
If the US purely operated on principle I wouldn’t be surprised if we had many more enemies than we do now, politics is about trade offs, it’s not black and white.
Fwiw I don’t think it’s morally right necessarily, but these kinds of decisions happen all the time in diplomacy, it’s really easy to arm chair criticize decisions but getting the alignment of all of these countries against Russia is a difficult problem.