The word they always reach for is "provocation." When North Korea tests a missile, that is a provocation. When Iran enriches uranium, that is a provocation.
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The word they always reach for is "provocation."
When North Korea tests a missile, that is a provocation.
When Iran enriches uranium, that is a provocation.
When Venezuela nationalizes its oil, that is a provocation.
When Cuba maintains its political system for more than six decades, that somehow, still, is a provocation.
The word "provocation" implies that there is a "neutral baseline" that is being disturbed.
What is the neutral baseline?
American military bases in 80 countries.
The largest naval force in history patrolling every ocean.
The dollar as global reserve currency enforced by financial architecture that extracts value from the periphery to the center.
The IMF and World Bank imposing structural adjustment programs that have, for more than forty years of documented evidence, consistently transferred wealth from poor countries to rich ones.
That is the baseline.
A country asserting its sovereignty within that baseline is called a "provocation."
The baseline itself is never called a provocation.
Because the main character does not provoke.
The main character simply exists.
And the people who respond to the main character's existence are, by definition, the ones causing the problem.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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