alt Hacker NewsHaving the British lose the US was a good thing for France, simillarly preventing Russia from just taking over another country is for the best of other countries.
While there is no "job" of a country, it is natural that each one will work for its own best interest and any moves it makes in the global world is due to their own vested interests in some way including helping Haiti, France helpong Us and the world supporting Ukraine.
Why would a country act against its interest or just randomly? Alliances and corporation are a part of politics
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>Why would a country act against its interest or just randomly?
Because country as an entity is a mental construction for which "interest" is a categorical error. It’s certainly a useful concept, but pretending it has interests like some human individual can have have interests. Sure it can serve as rhetorical facility to sell some arguments.
Countries don’t have interests. Some people willing to take control of other people encompassed in that "country" groups have interests, and they don’t necessarily align with best interests of everyone or even majority in each of these groups.
> Why would a country act against its interest or just randomly?
So why is the US supporting Russia again?
> Having the British lose the US was a good thing for France
This seems a bit reductionist. Why would they give the Statue Liberty to the US if they were only in it for the British loss?