John Bolton, the US National Security Advisor, wrote today: "Regime change is not an ideal, but a means to achieve US national security goals, and like any means, it requires a cost-benefit analysis, assessing its feasibility and chances of success. It is not always successful, nor is it always a failure."
Comments: Bolton's remarks directly expose the most naked and dirty core of American hegemony. Combined with Trump's actions in Venezuela and Iran, this is a robber logic that uses subversion as a tool, calculates costs without considering morality. He talks about "cost-benefit analysis," but actually, in Venezuela, he supports proxies, imposes sanctions and blockades, and instigates coups, doing whatever it takes to overthrow the regime, and if it doesn't work, continues to apply pressure; in Iran, he applies maximum pressure, military deterrence, and incites internal unrest, making regime change the ultimate goal, completely disregarding the sovereignty and people's lives of other countries.
Bolton admits that regime change is not an ideal, but a business, a tool - whether it is moral is not important, whether it serves American interests and whether it is worth it is important. This completely exposes the disguise of American "democracy, human rights": sovereignty can be trampled upon, other countries can be overthrown, everything gives way to American hegemony.
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