Is America a beacon for peace?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 7, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“America has been spending billions for decades to secure world peace. Do non-American people appreciate it?”

This statement is “slightly” in contrast with the fact that since the end of World War II, almost all conflicts and wars were instigated and indirectly or directly fought by the US and its allies driven by the US — not to mention the trillions it spends on and benefits from arms deals. Even now, when we look at Ukraine and Taiwan, one has to be blind not to see American manipulation behind the events.

The Obama administration scorched the Middle East, which settled to a certain extent during the 4 Trump years only to flare up and ignite — together with the Cold War (almost hot) with Russia and China almost immediately at the start of the present administration. And that is while the US has been the sole winner of WWII, easily achieving world dominance even without inciting and fighting wars, simply through trade and its overwhelming media and entertainment propaganda.

The US does everything solely for its own selfish benefit; when it “gives” by it enslaves and asks for much more in return. This is not uniquely American, all powerful colonizing nations did the same and still do if they can.

This is not the fault of the Americans. The US simply represents the peak of the inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative human nature. After all, the American Dream was the dream of every human being; even today, many still admire the US — although the number of such people heavily declines as America declines.

But again, America’s decline is just a symbol of the end of our original selfish, egocentric and cancer-like development where we wanted to consume and accumulate everything only for our own sake while succeeding at the expense. Our whole human system based on the insatiable human ego has “lost its right to exist” in Nature’s closed, finely balanced and mutually integrated system governed by strict, unchanging and unforgiving laws.

Thus we all need to learn how to adapt ourselves to Nature’s system and its laws if we want to avoid the next “civilization-ending explosion” that might wipe out most of humanity.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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