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Genesis
That's not true.
Iraq war: The Iraq war was not sanctioned by the UN. In fact quite a few western countries objected to it, here's a map (Blue = opposed to the war).
Afghanistan war: The USA invaded without waiting for UNSC mandate, the UN resolution came after the invasion has happened and has dealt with building a security force for the already conquered country.
Vietnam war: There was no UNSC support. In fact the lack of such resolution was used to bash the USA (need I provide links?).
In conclusion your statement could not be farther from the truth.
The UN and the other
international organizations are not about USA nor Europe they are about cooperation. Sure the west holds more power there because historically the West has been more powerful in the past. This will obviously change and already is changing, such things take time.
By the time of Vietnam war, America is already powerful enough that it no longer required the false title of UN in some situations.
Much like the saying 挟天子以令诸侯.
It talked about CaoCao, of Three kingdoms period in China. After he conquered ove rhalf of China, he adopted the title of king, even though during the beginning of the dynasty, the founding emperor made a rule no body who isn't from his blood can be made a king. (the title emperor is still higher to a king)
His son, eliminated the emperor and made himself an emperor and started a new dynasty.
America is at a point where finger pointing does as much to it as wind blowing in someone's face. America's got Amnesty international and organizations like these that constently point fingers at other countries that people stop focusing on America.
You may think America doesn't hold all the cards, but Russian economy is puny relative to America, militarily much weaker and Russian allies as well as Chinese are third world, while American allies are all the developed countries in the world.
How can our allies object to America, when they need help from "international" organizations like the IMF where the developed world provide the bulk of the funding and decide who gets what and how.
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Hellraiser007
You guys got beef with pretty much all your neighbors as well, let's be real. BTW, all world powers are created not by balance but by taking risks.
The rise of prussia is one of the riskiest, it started with the seven year war and at points it looked like the end of Prussia, but then Prussia survived and became a great power.
Balance is good, but to be great, you can't always play it safe.
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GR!FF!N
funny you choose to ignore this in my last post.
We won't bow to America, and if we do it won't be for long and it'll just be a ploy to bid our time.
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http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...ipino-supply-ayungin-shoal.html#ixzz2UzPq9iRm