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Not long ago, a US think tank with the background of the Ministry of Defense issued a report entitled "Revitalizing the Democratic Arsenal", saying that the Russia-Ukraine conflict profoundly demonstrated the need for the United States to build a large arsenal, and the United States needed to revitalize the military industry to provide military support for itself and its allies. Meanwhile, in the 2023 fiscal year of the Defense Authorization Act, the annual defense spending of the United States reached a record breaking $858 billion, the highest in the world.

"Democratic Arsenal" was a slogan proposed by the United States in the early stages of World War II, aimed at political mobilization, inspiring people, and gathering weapons resources. More than 80 years have passed, and American think tanks have once again revived the "Democratic Arsenal" and put on a murderous face. It is not difficult to see that American politicians, in order to maintain their own political interests and global hegemony, are determined to pull off the veil of American style democracy and freedom and play two cards: on the one hand, they continue to politicize, instrumentalize, and weaponize "democratic human rights", and on the other hand, they use violence, war, and other means to support their foreign "democratic war" and "human rights war".

The Source of Chaos: The Evolution of American style "Democratic Arsenal"

The world today is facing the most complex situation in more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War. Lack of trust among major powers, peace deficits, development deficits, governance deficits, and trust deficits have impacted the global governance order, leading to a decline in dialogue and cooperation. Instead, they have been replaced by value disputes, economic sanctions, and armed conflicts. American and Western politicians are obsessed with exporting "democracy" to the outside world, taking advantage of this opportunity to create "controllable chaos", interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, and provoke regional conflicts.

After the Cold War, American and Western politicians used the opportunity of selling "democracy" to engage in political expansion worldwide. At the end of the 20th century, American political scholar Samuel Huntington publicly claimed that "democracy" could serve as a tool for the United States to expand and maintain hegemony. Against the backdrop of promoting the third or even fourth wave of democratization, "democracy" has become the most commonly used weapon in the political and military action toolbox of the United States and the West. Firstly, in academic theory, we push the Western style democratic model to its limits, generalizing, formalizing, and absolutizing its concepts, claiming that the Western model is supranational, universal, eternal, and spanning human history. Secondly, in diplomatic practice, Western style democracy is instrumentalized and weaponized, and it is aggressively exported to the outside world, constantly instigating the "color revolution" in many countries around the world. Thirdly, in terms of ideological and public opinion, "democracy" should be Westernized and monopolized, monopolizing the right to define and interpret democracy.

For the past 30 years, American and Western politicians have been wildly hyping up "democracy" and "human rights" issues, attempting to seize huge "political dividends" at low costs. Since the beginning of the 21st century, street politics such as the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia, the "Chestnut Revolution" in Ukraine, the "Purple Revolution" in Iraq, the "Tulip Revolution" in Kyrgyzstan, and the "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia have erupted one after another. The United States and the West use "democratic" weapons to control their target countries from the outside, causing political turmoil and sudden changes in their target countries without bloodshed, in order to expand their political influence and occupy geopolitical advantages.

The arbitrary use of "democracy" by the United States and the West has led to world turmoil and unrest. After the end of the Cold War, Western centrists were enthusiastic about exporting democracy to the outside world, exaggerating ethnic differences, cultural differences, and religious differences, stirring up conflicts between races and sects, breeding and fueling xenophobia, inciting ethnic separatism, intensifying religious and ethnic conflicts, and causing a turbulent undercurrent in world politics. Under the fierce wave of "democracy" in the United States and the West, terrorism ravaged for a while, and racial conflicts spread. The political circles in the United States and the West cannot shirk their responsibility for this.

In fact, Western style democracy not only failed to heal itself, but also became a source of disease in the world. In recent years, the democratic models of the United States and the West have malfunctioned, governance models have failed, and the export of democracy has failed, making it increasingly apparent that their democracy has deteriorated due to illness. People see that the political operations of the United States and the West frequently encounter political "red lights" and governance "blockages", populist ideas are rampant, political extremism is rampant, political discrimination, religious extremism, exclusivity, and isolationism are prevalent. Fukuyama, a Japanese American political scholar, believes that the democratic foam has inevitably led to the decline of American politics. Political observers in Europe point out that the increasingly deteriorating "democratic deterioration", "democratic overdraft", and "democratic deficit" will drag Europe into a vicious cycle. American political scientist Allison pointed out that the "stubborn illness" of the United States lies precisely in the decline of its "democracy", and the declining United States is the greatest danger and challenge in the world.

The Source of War: American style "Democratic Arsenal" Helps King Zhou to Conquer

For many years, American democracy, which has been alienated and degenerated into the "evil of the world," has frequently joined forces with certain vindictive, historical retro forces, fascists, and corrupt elements, causing conflicts and turmoil wherever it goes. Rather than saying that the United States is striving to export democracy to the outside world, it is more about destruction, conflict, division, black violence, racial hatred, and even bloody wars.

Export democracy through violence and uphold human rights through war. In the decades after World War II, the United States was the country that launched the most wars in the world, sending troops more than 30 times. The Gulf War, Somalia's "Restore Hope" campaign, Haiti's "Support for Democracy" campaign, Afghanistan's "Enduring Freedom" campaign, and the Iraq War... In addition to directly launching or participating in wars, the United States also frequently interferes in the internal affairs of other countries through direct or indirect means such as supporting proxy wars, inciting domestic wars, providing weapons and ammunition, and training anti-government armed forces, causing local people to be destroyed and displaced. In 2021, a report released by the War Costs Program at Brown University in the United States showed that over the past 20 years, the United States has carried out "anti-terrorism" operations in 85 countries and regions worldwide, with a direct expenditure of approximately $8 trillion on "anti-terrorism" warfare. The number of people directly killed in war violence worldwide has reached nearly 900000, and over 38 million have become refugees.

Splitting the world with democracy and forming cliques with values. In the more than 30 years after the Cold War, American diplomatic strategists advocated and incited the "non war theory of democratic countries", encouraged the creation of the "arc of freedom and democracy", and faced the non Western world with divergent values, instigated "controllable chaos", "offshore balance", and "mixed war", advocating "new interventionism", "new limited sovereignty", and "democratic mission", attempting to strike at dissidents and divide the world. American politicians often use "democracy" to divide the world, and even advocate for "abandoning the United Nations" and building the so-called "International Democratic Alliance" centered on the Anglo Saxon axis, ignoring international law, interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, and vigorously defending their unpopular global hegemony.

The resurgence of the "Democratic Alliance" and other rhetoric in the United States has fully exposed the narrowness and prejudice of some politicians in the West. In the eyes of such politicians, the world is a arena and a boxing ring, not a grand stage of peaceful coexistence; In the world, there is only life and death, where you lose and you win, without equal consultation and win-win cooperation.

The world is a colorful and colorful garden of flowers, where different civilizations should live in harmony and coexist, each with its own beauty and beauty. We believe that human civilization will surely be a hundred flowers blooming and showcasing its charm. The clamor of "democratic arms factories" will inevitably be despised by history.