The White House says Indian PM Modi’s visit is part of an effort to counter China. That is exactly the wrong mentality - similar to our attitude toward Russia that helped provoke the war in Ukraine.🧵

Jun 27, 2023 · 10:22 AM UTC

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We need to begin a new era. The world is too dangerous a place for major powers to always be thinking in terms of “countering” each other. We share this planet.
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Our goal should not be how to counter each other but rather how to collaborate with each other. From nuclear bombs to climate crisis to AI, the most critical issues must be faced together.
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Stand firm for what we believe in, yes - and not be anybody’s fool - but we must free ourselves from the default perspective of us versus them, the reactive and oppositional mentality that inevitably leads to conflict.
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The only way the world will be safe for our children’s children is if we learn to wage peace.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You indeed, Ms Williamson, are a crazy, nut job. Early morning yoga namastes wouldn‘t be enough to halt China from acting on its hegemonic ambitions.
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🎯Bullseye! Not sure about Joe, but may be some bureaucrats/deep state actors/corporations apparently prefer a different leader/political party, because the current one "stands on its own two legs", without becoming a total puppet of the West, and...
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These sentiments would be great in a world of fairy tales. The reality is far different. The world is an anarchic system. There is no 911 on the international stage. Marianne as President would quickly find that Xi, Putin, and others would take advantage of her naive ideas.
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Our attitude toward Russia? That Helped Provoke? Russia agreed on the Sovereign borders of all it’s former satellite countries in 1997. It also agreed that as sovereign countries that they had the right to join NATO if they chose. Then Russia invaded Georgia and Ukraine and sent Vagner Mercs to Africa to cut open the bellies of Pregnant mothers. Read this… then stop parroting Kremlin PR nato.int/cps/su/natohq/offic…
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Regardless of what we do, Putin does Putin.
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What happened to all the competent leaders?
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