SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "Would the US not be more powerful if it returned to alliances built on values?"

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"Would the US not be more powerful if it returned to alliances built on values?"

Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian, May 2026.

Let's examine the values the alliances were built on.

1953: Iran. The CIA removes Mossadegh because he nationalized Iranian oil.

The values: British Petroleum's profit margins.

1954: Guatemala. The CIA removes Árbenz because he redistributed unused land from United Fruit Company.

The values: a Boston-based corporation's unused banana plantations.

1965: Indonesia. The U.S. facilitates the massacre of between 500,000 and one million people to remove Sukarno.

The values: the archipelago's strategic position and resources.

1973: Chile. Kissinger oversees the removal of Allende, a democratically elected socialist.

The values: copper.

These are not departures from the values-based order.

These are the values-based order.

The values were always: access, extraction, control.

The law was always: for countries that complied.

Patrick Wintour is not a diplomatic editor.

He is a restoration theologian.

His god never existed.

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Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

Astonishingly, in comparing the US wars on Vietnam and Iran, the Guardian assumes the first, unlike the second, was guided by "noble intent" at a time when the US was on a "moral mission".

Emphasising Trump's break with that supposed "nobility", the paper's diplomatic editor