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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

The problem with the concept of a world police is that it's a political thing, not a law and order thing.

A political world police is just as good as a political regular police would be.

Imagine, police would just do whatever the majority are saying instead of, you know, using evidence to get someone before a judge and continue to use evidence to get someone convicted or alternatlively let people go free where there's no evidence.

ICE is pretty much what a political police looks like, and the US as the world police acted just like that.

Remember 911? Attacking Afghanistan might have maybe been somewhat justified, but attacking Irak, mostly because US troops were already there was totally not.

The "world police" was certainly not a successful thing and certainly not in regards to world peace. More often than not it was used to score points for the next national election.