The United States is not the good one, by Matías Vallés

The world consensus gives Putin the Global Supervillain Title, at the height of James Bond’s Blofeld or Sherlock Holmes’s Moriarty. Next, the Manichaean temptation forces us to designate the good guy in the film, and look where, in the Prado Museum he gave himself up the award of universal goodness to the US as usual. No one seems concerned that this country preaches perpetual peace while its citizens, conveniently armed by the Supreme Court, they settle home disputes by gunshots.

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The obvious that the pacifist country offers a bloody resume it goes back to just yesterday, to the absurd wars without rivals in Afghanistan or Iraq, waged with the ‘New York Times’ as the patriotic standard bearer. The United States is not the good one, but in Madrid it won that title in the chapter on heavy weapons, without losing its suggestive soft power. The three biggest shows of the year are ‘Top Gun’, ‘Jurassic World’ and ‘Elvis’. American dominance is so overwhelming that it doesn’t even need to renew its franchises. The aforementioned are valid for 40, 30 and 70 years, respectively. They can only reply Marvel superheroes, measured in centuries old. Given the longevity of the symbols, one can speak purely of a religion. Very lucrative, by the way.

Periodically, leftist leaders challenge the dogma that America is the good guy from all the movies, and succumb. Felipe González took root in Marxism and the right to self-determination, before entering NATO with his head down and placing a Spaniard as Secretary General. Zapatero refused to get up before the parade of the stars and stripes, but he ended his political career and that of the PSOE by blindly obeying a call from Obama that “I’m going to continue, no matter what it costs me”. Currently, Sánchez denounces the provincial economic and media powers Spanish people. Then he stands firm against the US military-industrial conglomerate that Eisenhower had already denounced, and paying. I don’t know how they get it.

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