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For the US, suspending joint military exercises with South Korea seems like a small price to pay for such an outcome, as it would do little to undercut America’s overwhelming military superiority.
But, in that same speech, Trump betrayed the superiority he ascribes to Israel: “Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital.”
The late Stephen J. Gould, author of The Mismeasure of Man, dismissed cross-cultural research using IQ tests as an attempt by white men to show their superiority.
The reason for this failure, which is of course also the reason for the superiority of market economies as they are manifested in free societies, is superiority lies in the free civil society as a major source of innovative development.
The fact that so many Asian students come to the West to study – and so few Europeans (Westerners) do so in Asia – is not a sign of the superiority of the Western mind and model.
A good politician should be able to explain without seeking to seduce; he should humbly look for the truth of this world without claiming to be its professional owner; he should alert people to the good qualities in themselves, including a sense of the values and interests which transcend the personal, without giving himself an air of superiority and imposing anything on his fellow humans; he should not yield to the dictate of public moods or of the mass media, while never hindering a constant scrutiny of his actions.
In Lebanon’s post-war parliament, seats are widely distributed among the various confessional communities, so that none feels excluded or fears losing political representation if it loses numerical superiority.
Then, in the middle of the 19 th century, China suffered at the hands of European imperial powers, which gained technological and industrial superiority over China, using this to force trading concessions from the Ching Dynasty.
Despite China’s overall military superiority, it is scarcely in a position to defeat India decisively in a Himalayan war, given India’s fortified defenses along the border.
And, indeed, the key to saving a rules-based order is not just to demonstrate its unquestionable superiority, but also to acknowledge and address its flaws.
The US had a unique opportunity at the end of the Cold War to use its benevolent and enlightened superiority to establish a better international order.
Of course, given America’s objective military superiority, I would call it “asymmetrical multi-polarity.”
Given Russia’s conventional superiority in the Baltic region, NATO would not have to worry that such an effort would inadvertently end up weakening the region’s security.
Europe’s superiority lies in its values and principles as an open, democratic, peaceful, prosperous, and law-abiding society.
This breeds arrogance and a sense of smug superiority over their counterparts – policymakers who must balance multiple, complicated agendas.
And, in retrospect, we now know that these enlightened economic policies played just as crucial a role as military superiority in winning that conflict.
And America’s military superiority has not proved all that useful in accomplishing American ends.
Nazi propaganda blamed Jews for everything: Germany’s defeat in World War I, universal moral values that prevented the Aryan race from exerting its superiority, and both communism and capitalism.
Moreover, India is working to safeguard its naval superiority over China.
Militarily, while the US will remain the dominant global power for the foreseeable future, its absolute superiority in East Asia is no longer unchallenged.
One possible line of criticism of this kind of thinking is simply to claim the superiority of Western values.
On top of all this, the US military, rather than being a burden, feeds the country’s technological superiority by subsidizing basic research.
But financial systems do not emerge as a result of their superiority in a particular environment.
Insulting Muslims simply on the basis of their faith is foolish and counterproductive, as is the increasingly popular notion that we must make sweeping pronouncements as to the superiority of “our culture.”
In this vision, Latin superiority consists in a more expansive view of the state’s capacity to secure incomes and create wealth, and less of the “Protestant” obsession with the individual’s work.
If the US is serious about establishing a genuine partnership with its Latin American neighbors, it must change not only its policies, but also the attitudes – rooted in a long-standing presumption of cultural superiority – that underpin them.
To argue that state capitalism’s success proves its superiority is to put the cart before the horse.
Kennan maintained that the US should work to create a world that no one can dominate, and that the best way to spread democracy is to demonstrate its superiority.
More importantly, Russia considers these weapons insurance against the possibility of Chinese conventional superiority.
Russia, with its formal nuclear superiority, has no serious fears regarding China’s military buildup.
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