West don’t have diplomacy since 90’s, it’s only dictate or be dictated. You can easily spot it with western diplomats being pretty shocked hearing “no” from global south.
Absolutely, the formative years in politics for all the people running things in the west were during the fall of USSR, and they internalized the idea that the west is effectively unchallenged globally. The world has changed dramatically since then, but these people haven’t bothered to keep up. Now we see western politicians make one blunder after another because their world model is completely divorced from reality.
West don’t have diplomacy since 90’s, it’s only dictate or be dictated. You can easily spot it with western diplomats being pretty shocked hearing “no” from global south.
Absolutely, the formative years in politics for all the people running things in the west were during the fall of USSR, and they internalized the idea that the west is effectively unchallenged globally. The world has changed dramatically since then, but these people haven’t bothered to keep up. Now we see western politicians make one blunder after another because their world model is completely divorced from reality.