Might not be my business, since I’m not Muslim or Arab (I am a POC though), but I don’t think you should concede that point. Alot of Arabic countries’ leaders are no doubt shitty/evil. But that doesn’t preclude the U.S. from being untrustworthy and duplicitous and conniving.
As you said, Arab nations and the Global South have far more to fear from the U.S. than they do China.
Even on the extreme end, China would at most send a strongly worded letter and a handful of slight sanctions to any country that slanders them, but China as a whole forgives slights surprisingly easily and is way more willing to not rock the boat, and to keep trading, for practical, economic, peaceful and diplomatic reasons.
A single low-level governmental official of a global south country could rightfully talk shit about the U.S., and the U.S. could spend an entire country’s worth of GDP like it was goddamn pocket change, to pay violent psychopath gang members and mercenaries, religious fundamentalists, or wealthy traitorous gusanos (or any combination of the above) to overthrow that country’s government, psychologically, mentally, physically and sexually assault it’s people, siphon it’s natural resources, and lie about it, all before fucking breakfast.
I don’t concede the point. I used to but for the reasons stated above I’ve stopped, and tried to get other people in my community to follow that decision as well.
Might not be my business, since I’m not Muslim or Arab (I am a POC though), but I don’t think you should concede that point. Alot of Arabic countries’ leaders are no doubt shitty/evil. But that doesn’t preclude the U.S. from being untrustworthy and duplicitous and conniving.
As you said, Arab nations and the Global South have far more to fear from the U.S. than they do China.
Even on the extreme end, China would at most send a strongly worded letter and a handful of slight sanctions to any country that slanders them, but China as a whole forgives slights surprisingly easily and is way more willing to not rock the boat, and to keep trading, for practical, economic, peaceful and diplomatic reasons.
A single low-level governmental official of a global south country could rightfully talk shit about the U.S., and the U.S. could spend an entire country’s worth of GDP like it was goddamn pocket change, to pay violent psychopath gang members and mercenaries, religious fundamentalists, or wealthy traitorous gusanos (or any combination of the above) to overthrow that country’s government, psychologically, mentally, physically and sexually assault it’s people, siphon it’s natural resources, and lie about it, all before fucking breakfast.
I don’t concede the point. I used to but for the reasons stated above I’ve stopped, and tried to get other people in my community to follow that decision as well.