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At a United Nations Security Council meeting last year, Morales summed up the true nature of America's role in the world very accurately, and, it turns out, very presciently.
"'I would like to say to you, frankly and openly here, that in no way is the United States interested in upholding democracy,' Morales said. 'If such were the case it would not have financed coups d'etat and supported dictators. It would not have threatened with military intervention democratically elected governments as it has done with Venezuela. The United States could not care less about human rights or justice. If this were the case, it would have signed the international conventions and treaties that have protected human rights. It would not have threatened the investigation mechanism of the International Criminal Court, nor would it promote the use of torture, nor would it have walked away from the Human Rights Council. And nor would it have separated migrant children from their families, nor put them in cages.'"
"'The United States is not interested in multilateralism,' Morales continued. 'If it were interested in multilateralism it would not have withdrawn from the Paris Agreement or given the cold shoulder to the global compact on migration, it would not have launched unilateral attacks, nor have taken decisions such as illegally declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel. This contempt for multilateralism is motivated by the thirst of the United States for political control and for the seizing of natural resources.'
"'Each time that the United States invades nations, launches missiles, or finances regime change, it does so behind a propaganda campaign which incessantly repeats the message that it is acting in the course of justice, freedom and democracy, in the cause of human rights or for humanitarian reasons,' Morales also said.
"'The responsibility of our generation is to hand over a fairer and more secure world to the following generation,' Morales concluded. 'We will only achieve this dream if we work together to consolidate a multi-polar world, a world with common rules that are respected by and defended from all the threats ranged against the United Nations.'"
Indeed, the only reason the U.S. is able to wage its endless campaign of regime change agendas against unabsorbed governments is because the uni-polar world order it rules has allowed it the power, resources and leisure to do so. A multi-polar world would enable the citizenry of this planet to have a say in what happens to them in a way that is not dictated by a few sociopaths in and around Washington, DC. A multi-polar world is to democracy as a uni-polar world is to monarchy. The citizens of the world should oppose this uni-polarity.
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