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Originally Posted by Slighted
so are you of the belief that private corporations are keeping "pax american[a]", i.e peace in the western hemisphere/ somewhat the rest of the world?
Pax americana is what allows american corporations to sell outside america basically, and for foreign countries to sell to americans. And even more of that for the EU, australia and so on.
Pax americana is based on military power (and alliances with other civilized countries), capitalism is what uses pax americana to generate massive worldwide prosperity.
That prosperity would exist anyway but be much more limited to a few countries, without pax americana. And various areas of the world would be on fire. Imagine israel/palestine but 20 times per year across the globe, and for countries with many more people.
We are at the bottom low of military action globally in the last decades, all thanks to western capitalism and western military might (with america playing the chief but not exclusive role in this), which for the first time in the history of the world, isn't used to conquer land and subjugate foreigners, rather to play win-win capitalist games.
Tl;dr is that people in indonesia, brasil, botswana, pakistan and so on would live far more horrendous lives if not for this.