The recent invasion, Hamas and growing terrorism are all indicators that our diplomacy based on promoting hypocritical values is failing. Do you think it's time we conclude the rest of the world is a hopeless and abandon our idealism for the old imperialism? (rebrand to whatever term that sounds better)
What's the difference, you ask?
For a start, we can publicly buy off foreign politicians and help them channel hard-earned money to our banks. We can crown rulers like Putin or Xi to manage their little empires for us, if they happen to lose popular support. Nothing works better than a foreign dictator who has to rely on our military might for survival. Imagine if we supported Mao's cultural revolution - China could never be a threat today.
We can also turn their propaganda machines into factories of controlled oppositions to mainstream medias, that way we'd always control both sides of opinions.
With real controls, terrorism could be easily crushed or limited to those distant countries whose people we don't really care, and our potential enemies would be too busy fighting each other with our weapons they paid for. Also they'd happily comply to our requests
from mining, border control to whatever we need against climate change, since they only need consider our opinions aka their profits not those of their subjects.
The bottom line is, there are many who have been saying the west is imperialist. So we better prove them right and show them!
So what do you say? Sounds reasonable yes?