Comfort Ero: Why Is Violent Conflict Reaching Record Levels? | Foreign Affairs Interview

[@rickfool1452]

Smart guest. Great podcast.

[@DiHuang-o1m]

I think this might be the best conversation I have encountered recently. I think Ms Ero is particularly right about her last point that despite all the conflicts and tragedies, nations still come to New York every year to discuss important matters. If going forward, US don’t manage every details carefully, it may very well lose this prestige. As the unipolar power in the world, US too often considers itself as the only universal truth bearer and therefore takes the respects from other nations for granted. Now, in my opinion, this all comes to crumble. It is time for US to earn other countries’ trust and respect if it wants to maintain its status of prestige. I don’t think multipolar is the solution to less conflicts but I do think multilateral is.

[@999reader]

The host and his guest may wish to consider that the double standards they refer to is just another name for hypocrisy. The effort to be absolutely consistent and not a hypocrite, which is very rarely achieved, merely makes you a fanatic.