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i fundamentally disagree with the notion that westerners understand anything about macroeconomics and geopolitics. at the population level we are not educated we are not literate.
Westerners understand extreme basics, which does distort the bigger picture. It's really easy to understand a war for oil, it's a little more complicated to understand war as an economic engine for the military-industrial complex, but you'll start losing them when it gets more complicated: domino theory and Monroe doctrine and underdevelopment and imperialism etc etc.