No, but that’s what Karp implies when he talks of „the west“. Americans may not realise how close that is to NSDAP propaganda, but it is.
> “As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.’
“He continued: ‘Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.’”
Yikes..
https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lheu...
It's also an essential one--sovereignty depends on it. That will be true as long as international relations are anarchic.