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Anti-American Sentiment

2025 is the 80 year anniversary of the end of WW2. America has reigned supreme for the entire duration, and I am surprised by the support that this anti-American imperialism protest had.

The Rise of American Imperialism Criticisms

For someone like me who studied American politics and its history, it is clear as day the US empire is the biggest terrorist in the world, much bigger than all of its proclaimed “enemies” combined, by several magnitudes. The amount of deaths, destructions, sanctions, and complete political and economic domination it imposes on any state that it deems to be a potential threat to the American hegemony is unparalleled in human history. Through military actions, funding coups, uplifting pro-American governments, using CIA covert ops to remove dissenters, USA has maintained its dominance in the world stage.

It would be easy to hate America as a father who just lost his child in Gaza, but it takes a different type of truth-seeking vigor to see through the smokescreen of the American propaganda and come to the same conclusion in a country like Japan, where the abundance of pro American messaging is only matched by the amount of anti-China rhetoric. As much as the US would like to portray other countries as warmongering threats, with 120 American military bases in Japan, 73 in South Korea, and countless more in Asia Pacific  one starts to question the legitimacy of their accusations. Not to mention the endless list of war that America has participated in, either directly or via proxy. It dwarves every other country by an unfathomable margin.

America as the “World Police”

The post WW2 global order was set up intentionally to benefit the USA, while it stirs up conflicts in countries far far away from its soil, in the name of justice and democracy. It brands itself as the “world police”, exploiting the destructions of nations that do not bow down to their ideologies, while massively benefiting from the cheap labor force of the global south. This system has allowed America to prosper, and kept other countries poor, but it has made a fatal mistake – it did not reinvest its war profits back into its own people. As prices rise and wages stagnate, the growing distrust and discontent of the American populous is what I believe to be the reason for this shift in public sentiment towards USA. With the USAID funding being cut globally, maybe we will see more of that sentiment around the world too.

Multi-Polar World Order

In an ideal world, the US can simply exist as its own nation, without meddling in foreign affairs. The world does not need a single super power that demands uncontested rule – be pro American or face retribution. Is it not enough that the world trades with the US dollars and America can acquire riches from its finance sector and brands without manufacturing a considerable amount of goods? Of course, the shift from the current status of complete military + political + economic dominance to just an economic one would take at least 20 years to achieve, in my view.

I am glad US and China’s softpower and branding have been evolving in the last few months. Evolving quicker than I could have ever imagined. As a Chinese-Canadian who is politically engaged and has been openly critical about the dominance of the American empire, all I want is a multipolar world where different countries and factions can co-exist peacefully and keep each other in check – USA, China, Russia, EU, NATO, BRICS, whatever it may be. No one is innocent of crimes. A country need institutions within to hold each other accountable, the same way that the world needs countries of similar economic and political influence to hold each other accountable. No one singular nation should be the “gold standard of morality” or “world police”. Not America, not China, not Russia, not the EU. In order for a truly harmonious world, these countries and organizations need to peacefully coexist.

The Crimes of America – Should They be Answered?

If the US were to face penalty for their crimes in the name of justice, the world would never see peace again. Frankly speaking, the list of horrifying and inhumane acts committed by the American empire is greater than any individual, American or not, can possibly imagine. As someone who was not directly impacted by the US’s “global diplomatic outreach” (derogatory) (unless you count the economic exploitation it has enacted on China, but that is almost privileged compared to what some countries have endured), I don’t feel like I am in the position to judge whether the US should be thoroughly prosecuted for its crimes since 1945. I will leave that to other countries to decide – Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Cambodia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Bolivia, El Salvador, the Philippines, Guatemala, Indonesia Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, Honduras, Laos, Uruguay, Congo, Greece, Turkey, Haiti… The list goes on and on and on, but you get the point. If the world scrutinized and punished the US the way the US did to other countries, it could lead to a desperate attempt of complete nuclear destruction. It certainly has the means to decimate the world many times over, so matters like this must be tread lightly. Either way, holding the US accountable on the global stage 

is nothing but a pipe dream. I do not foresee a future where this can happen. Maybe in a school textbook 100 years from now, students will look back on this era of the American dynasty, and understand the utter insanity we currently live in.

Closing Thoughts

All this is not to say I hate America, or Americans. My grievances lie purely with the American empire and its ambitions – something that is frankly unknown to the average American. Ask random Americans what “School of Americas”, “Phoenix Program”, or “Jakarta Method” is, I guarantee you 11 out of 10 of them will have never heard any of them. Americans are simultaneously the ones benefiting from the status quo, but also victims to the greatest propaganda machine the world has ever seen – their own government.