alt Hacker NewsWith great power comes great responsibility, it's not that complicated a concept.
Switzerland doesn't have any aspirations to be the global hegemon, so they don't get graded on the global hegemon scale.
With great power comes great responsibility, it's not that complicated a concept.
Switzerland doesn't have any aspirations to be the global hegemon, so they don't get graded on the global hegemon scale.
Another saying is: "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
The US sent billions to Ukraine, and what did we get in return? Europeans telling us that "the last time the US did anything good for the world was WW2".
It's not about hegemons vs non-hegemons either. China sends war supplies to Russia and Europe barely complains.
How about this: Consider our loss of support for Ukraine as an abandonment of aspirations of hegemony in Eastern Europe. Bingo, now we no longer have "great power" in that region, nor "great responsibility". Ukraine is your problem now.
Ultimately, you're just playing language games. There's no reason a Swiss taxpayer should be less responsible than an American taxpayer. This is all just anti-Americanism.
People like to scapegoat the US whenever they're dissatisfied regarding anything, virtually anywhere around the world. There's frequently a creative way to blame the US. And because people are impossible to please, and they are always dissatisfied, the US is always blamed. I'm sick of it.