‘Democracy Police’ Under ´Double Standards’: Bad for Preserving USA Superpower
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Published Date: 07 October 2022 at 03:47
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07 October 2022 at 03:47. The USA has taken the role of ´police democracy´ for many years and it is indeed appreciated by those who care about preserving democracy. However, it is unnecessarily good for the USA in terms of geopolitics when Russia and China its rivals do not interfere in the internal affairs of their allies, especially China. China treats its allies like customers, so from a marketing perspective, China cares about the potential ´sale´ (FDI and export) to their allies and for their ability to ´pay´ (payments and loans). Russia, on contrary to China, treats its allies like ´father and sons´, so it is loyal relations in the long-run. The USA is a different story. The USA engaged actively in regime transformation to democracy while punishing regimes via sanctions if the regime stops acting like a democracy, nonetheless, the USA less punish West strategic allies for democracy problems like the case of Israel, which is perceived as ´double standards, regardless of democratic problems at home, in the USA, as Trumpś behaviour and policy, so many do not see the USA as a full democracy. Hence, from a country perspective that is looking for a ´provider´-superpower, then for many countries Russia and China are more attractive than the USA, especially if the countries are half-democracies, such as many countries in Africa and South America. Thereby, is the USA should stop acting like a ´police democracy´? The answer is not simple yet the answer is simple and clear from the superpower perspective. The USA should engage in preserving democratic values, but not in an active way because from a superpower perspective, the USA has lost many ´customers´ due to its active policy of ´police democracy´, so paradoxically, instead of getting more democratic countries worldwide, USA pushed many half-democratic countries to the hands of its ´competitors´, Russia and China. Therefore, from a marketing perspective, punishment never helps to preserve customers or to get new customers, so the USA may need to transform its policy into a ´marketing democracy´ to preserve its position as a superpower.