Mexican president shows the courage required to change the world

We must all think globally and act locally.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

‘Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has bristled over his government being accused by the US State Department of human rights abuses, and dismissed his country’s neighbors to the north as “liars.” ’ —RT

Bullying by individuals or nations has one big thing in common. It will continue unabated until such time as the bully is challenged and held to account. The USA is the world’s unrepentant bully of long standing. Where individuals or nations allow themselves to be bullied a bad situation becomes worse as being servile to a bully empowers it to be more arrogant, flagrant and abusive in its behaviors. The world has allowed itself to become too servile to American bullying and this is one of the fundamental under pinnings of the strife we see today.

Where there is no mutual respect and civility war, strife and despotism prevail.

When the US State Department decided to accuse Mexico of human rights violations Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador fired right back as he must, accusing his neighbors to the north as being “liars”.

Accusing other nations of human rights has been a malicious tool of America’s foreign policy for too long and left unchallenged. The accusations are most often false as they are intended to ridicule and vilify other nations as necessary. What is most galling is the hypocrisy of a rogue superpower having a long standing record of human rights abuse against other countries; up to and including genocide, literally bombing nations out of existence.

Servility and slavery are synonymous terms. Nations that submit to bullying are committing themselves to both and become victims of Stockholm Syndrome.

Calling out bullying is an essential component in today’s geopolitics because by some presumptuous divine right the US has assumed ownership of the world. In spite of its badly tarnished resume it assumes all other nations to be squatters on its manifest destiny.

It is trying desperately to bluff its way to complete global hegemony when its tool box has become blazing transparent and inept:

• It claims to want to spread liberal democracy around the world when in fact it is a practitioner of neoliberalism, which fragments cultures and economies while colonizing them.

• It openly claims to want to weaken competitors with no regard to how it is weakening itself and the alarming extent of its imperial overreach.

• It holding China under siege at a cost to itself that is not sustainable and threatening a war that can never be fought.

• Its belligerence is driving other countries to align themselves with the East rather than the West. (Mexico has also recently stated its intentions to join BRICS).

• It touts its “rules based order” for the world which are no more than its present imperialist agenda.

• Its egregious miscalculations haves seen the European economy destroyed and Ukraine in ruins. Where it wanted to destroy Russia it has empowered it on the world stage.

• Flagrant militarism signals its down fall not its salvation.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shows the leadership necessary to establish a new multipolar world where leaders lead and not be servile to the tyrannies that are tearing down the planet. Too many Western leaders pander to an unacceptable status quo that is ruinous to their countries as well as the world community.

Canada is a country so servile to Washington it will not get to participate in the dynamic new world order emerging. It has closed its options by blindly adhering to the US agenda. Like the US it must change its posture and join the rest of world in the 21st century, and the relevant challenges and opportunities.

We can no longer see the world in terms of wars, empires and domination. There must be peaceful co-existence among all nations. There must be detente and reciprocity among all nations where the international rule of law applies to all.