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The term "Russian aggression" alone gives a glimpse into the false narratives we are fed.

We never heard US aggression. Did the US leave the Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, Nicaragua alone? No. Then why we never heard of US aggression.

For decades, an active geopolitical cat and mouse games has been going on in the world . However, we hear only one side's narrative.

In geopolitics if one side pursue an aggressive strategy to contain another nation, for instance expanding NATO eastwards or changing a regime by other means for instance Ukraine 2014 revolution and have the propaganda mechanism powerful enough to label the other side is the aggressor, we won't see the whole truth.

That's why we tend to have the belief that the US dominated world order is good.

China lifted billions of people out of poverty. India has been improving as well in that front. That means billions of people will go to bed without an empty stomach and wake up with much more hope than in the previous decades.

The world order is changing rapidly and moving towards a multi-polar world. That means the US and the west cannot impose their will on countries that doesn't suit their interests. Regime change operations and other tactics used by the US will be much costly in the coming decades because there will be other powers to counter that.

That means millions of people will live peacefully with less violence. Without their life disrupted suddenly because someone thousands of kilometers away decided to change things over in their country.

However, there is looming threat to this prospect, how the US will handle it's internal politics. The more failed it becomes internally the more external power projection will be needed to maintain it's dominance. Most of the troubles happening around the world right now can be traced back to the US efforts to contain China's growth. If you look at holistically, this shouldn't be this way, if the US spent most of the defense budget in public education and health care, it doesn't need to worry about China. It can keep it's dominance while there is a wealthier China existing on the other side.

However, as history has repeatedly shown, the pendulum always swings back. Empires crumples and new powers replaces it.

There is a glorious future awaits for those living in China, India and other rapidly developing countries.