This is why the "just telling the truth" model of propaganda works so effectively against the US.
No need to lie when your adversary does.
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"Look what <insert political enemy> did."
"You did that last week/you support regimes that do that/you enable that through regime change."
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The US does do a number of things better than e.g. Russia, but lying about their own conduct isn't a good way to demonstrate it.
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In fact it's a terrible technique - one that goes a long way towards worsening global fatigue with hypocritical US grandstanding.
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It might seem like a tame political non-issue, but a world with China as global hegemon is very unlikely to be an improvement.
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This is why US propaganda worked so well in the West during the Cold War: all they had to do was tell the truth when the Soviets wouldn't.
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That asset has now been turned on its head, probably because dominant political forces in the US are delusional about its global standing.
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"Project for the New American Century" kind of says it all. This has been -the- dominant force in US political life for nearly two decades.
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The US managed to hold on to a hell of a lot of power for decades, by being nicer about it than just about every empire that went before.
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By taking a once-relevant, now-delusional stance of American Exceptionalism, the fall that follows will be all the heavier. Unfortunate.