There is a reason why the negotiators from the Global South are always failing. Due to the mythology of the Enlightenment, it has been spread throughout the world that states should be rational and political actors should be rational.
When Global South policy makers consider options they come up with scenarios which match mutual interest. Western policy makers also map out the world in terms of actors seeking rational self interest.
Western theorists never address the counterfactual? Why the continuous and multiple genocides committed by the West? In many cases of genocide that the US has engaged in there was no additional economic benefit. What has emerged is a game. A smokescreen that the US believes in the Enlightenment values, that it believes in a myth of Western values, is maintained. Many scholars in the West are led to believe that if they push the narrative Western values the US will eventually buy the narrative and begin to believe. These scholars believe there is split within the establishment for which they fight for goodness and wisdom.
However from the point of view of the dark forces this is marvellous. These scholars are so genuine they will convince the rest of the world that the US genuinely believes in ‘Western values’. From the point of view of the ‘dark forces’ these people are useful idiots.
In addition most scholars from the global South cannot believe that the US in particular and the West in general are wrapped up in a general project to wipe out all non-white people. This is despite such a policy being inscribed in the work of Immanuel Kant. Why did the Argentinians genocide their Black population? After 25 years it was all forgotten and this became the template for the Nazis. It was the expectation that after 25 years the absence of Jews in Germany will be a matter of curiosity. The issue here is not that the scholars from the Global South disagree about this , but they cannot even think about it to even investigate it.
This takes us to Putin’s desire to de-Nazify Ukraine. This Ukraine regime has been widely supported by the West and its genocidal beliefs kept off the front pages. What does Putin mean when he says he needs to de-nazify Ukraine? This becomes complex when you add
that Putin has said that Russia is fighting NATO. If Ukraine is proxy for NATO then de-Nazify Ukraine may be a proxy for de-Nazify NATO!
It is not for nothing that the Nazis looked to the US and Britain for templates on how to deal with non-whites.