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Compare Iraq with Ukraine. It’s clear the era of US global supremacy is over · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jeff Allen. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope so this will be the last episode I do for a
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  Hey, this story here with everything going on in the news
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  today, I had to talk about this and this.
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  Well, this opinion piece by Jonathan Steele from the
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  guardian. The headline says, compare Iraq
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  with Ukraine. It's clear the era of the u.s.
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  global Supremacy is over. Now, some very interesting
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  points in this. In this article, also, it Funny
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  when you think about and compare Iraq with Ukraine.
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  Well, it's amazing. Think about see the differences,
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  the differences in the way things are handled globally.
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  Not just with you, Iraq and Ukraine.
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  You, look at other Wars, other conflicts that are currently
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  happening at the moment. To me, it's very strange than
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  the way. The Ukraine war is handled by
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  the rest of the world. Old and what, how the leadership
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  and Ukraine, you know how they are treated globally and they,
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  their leadership. His leadership is, wow, it's
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  really held up on a pedestal and I just think it's very strange,
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  the way the rest of the world holds it.
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  He is billed as some kind of leader and they don't really
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  question. Don't really question.
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  How he got to where he is. And some of the Some of the Back
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  stories or some of the, some of the history that he has anyway,
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  we'll go through this article. It says it's a useful
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  coincidence that the 20th anniversary of George W, bush
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  and Tony Blair's illegal attack. On our rack falls, only a matter
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  of weeks after the anniversary of Vladimir Putin's illegal
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  attack on Ukraine. So neither war was authorized by
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  the UN. Both a marked by massive
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  destruction and Huge loss of life.
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  So the bush Blair Invasion and occupation of Iraq and it's
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  chaotic consequences have taken the lives of more than a million
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  Iraqi civilians. According just to one survey.
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  So US forces committed innumerable war crimes.
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  Not least the torture of captured soldiers at the Abu
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  ghraib ghraib detention center near Baghdad us officers
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  humiliated. Iraqi prisoners in violation of
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  the Geneva conventions. The Invasion, provoked,
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  widespread resistance, but us counterinsurgency tactics
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  involved raids on Villages that led to massacres of unarmed
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  civilians. So, the world reacted to the
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  bush player wall with disapproval.
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  But almost no action was taken against them.
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  There was no State impose sanctions on the US or Britain.
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  No. Investigators from the
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  international criminal court took evidence to Stan, she ate
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  prosecution for war crimes, a few individuals and some human
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  rights organizations call for Blair to be indicted on the
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  charge of committing, the crime of aggression.
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  But no government approached. The UN with resolution to open a
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  criminal case against them. Now, consider the very different
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  reaction to Vladimir Putin's illegal war on Ukraine virtually
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  every Western Government following.
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  The US has lead has slapped sanctions.
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  Russia's exports. Russia's Financial Holdings in
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  u.s. banks have been frozen Putin's friends have had their
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  yachts and other property impounded.
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  And then a few days ago, the international criminal court
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  issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, involving
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  the illegal deportation of children from from Ukraine.
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  Now I'll just be clear. I don't mind any of these
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  things. The I'm not against any of these
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  sanctions I'm not against the National Criminal Court.
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  Issuing an arrest warrant for Putin.
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  I think he is a bad bad, man. He's obviously, done some
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  atrocious things here. This wall is illegal against the
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  war, not for it at all, but these points are very good when
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  you when you compare the wars and the differences in them.
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  And what happened and what the reactions have been from the
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  International Community, very, very different continue on with
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  this article, the contrast and the Local reaction to the two
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  Wars is instructive. Nothing better illustrates the
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  differential between Russia's media, International Authority,
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  and that of the US will Putin. It's humiliating he may like to
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  think of his country as a superpower, but in reality
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  Beyond holding a massive nuclear.
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  Arsenal, Russia has little Global cloud and few foreign
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  friends. Putin is widely criticized for
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  trying to recreate an old fashioned Empire by seizing land
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  and intimidating States on Russia's western and southern
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  borders. The US for its part runs, a new
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  style of non-territorial Empire with great success.
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  It enjoys enormous political and economic influence on every
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  continent. Dominates, the International
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  Financial system and operates, 750 military bases in more than
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  80 countries, most of the D, not oppose Washington's, RIT some
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  analysts, argue that it rushes defeated in his current war on
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  Ukraine. Europe will be able to post.
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  Sorry, do enjoy a post imperial system of peaceful relations and
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  autonomy on the continent for the first time in history.
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  They forget NATO the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and
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  began in 1949, and still continues in part as an
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  instrument for. For u.s. its hegemony in Europe.
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  Allies May decline to participate in US military
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  operations as France and Germany boldly did over Iraq in 2003.
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  But they did not publicly denounced them as illegal or
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  call the sanctions. Now, 30 years after the demise
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  of the Soviet Union, there are signs that the unipolar world of
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  us dominance may be coming to an end.
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  The main Challenger is Putin's Russia, but an increasingly
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  confident, China leaders in the global South are also stirring
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  in the first flush of shock over Russia's aggression against
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  Ukraine. In February last year, more than
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  140 un States voted to condemn it.
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  But around only around 40 countries in total have joined
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  the u.s. in imposing sanctions on Russia as the West floods.
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  Ukraine with military hardware, the notion that it is merely
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  helping to defend Ukraine. Looks questionable too many
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  Asian African and Latin American states.
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  Who suspect the end goal to be regime change in the Kremlin and
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  except further down here to the end.
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  It says that some fear, a new Cold War this time between the
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  west and China looking 10 years ahead of others, expect to see a
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  multipolar world in, which states will not be pressured to
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  align themselves with. One side or the other either way
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  in spite of the Resurgence of us power in Europe.
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  As a result of the war in Ukraine, the era of us Supremacy
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  in the rest of the world, may soon be over.
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  Listen, while I don't agree with absolutely everything within
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  this article. I think it does make a lot of
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  really good points and this last piece, last part that you wrote.
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  When it says some fear, a new Cold War this time between the
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  west and China, in the end, I do not believe that we will have.
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  Any super power such as the u.s. or China.
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  I don't believe the Bible describes any such super power.
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  I think we're heading for a new Cold War and very possibly the
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  west or the US Britain, fortunately, maybe Australia,
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  and China canceling themselves out.
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  That's just my opinion. We're dancing on Dangerous
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  Ground. Thanks for listening to the
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  slippery. Slope.