Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has censured US President Barack Obama, drawing a comparison between American ˜exceptionalism™ and Nazism.
œObama surprises me…[Belarus had] already survived this ‘exceptionalism’…which cost us 50 million lives,” Lukashenko said in a television interview on Thursday, while referring to the alleged number of Soviet deaths during World War II.
The Belarusian president added that he was surprised Obama would promote such rhetoric, considering the American president comes from a country œwhere black people were slaves not all that long ago.”
This is while on September 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article published by The New York Times that œit is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.”
During the UN General Assembly last week, Obama said that his view of American œexceptionalism” centers entirely around its willingness to start wars based on the idea of diplomacy – a clear segue to launch military action against Syria.
œI believe America is exceptional, in part because we have shown a willingness, through the sacrifice of blood and treasure, to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest, but for the interests of all,” Obama insisted.
Obama has made repeated calls for military action against Syria, accusing the Syrian government of using chemical weapons in an attack last month against militants who have been fighting government forces for the past two and a half years – an allegation Damascus rejects.
Experts contend that the idea of declaring oneself ˜special, superior and/or exceptional™ can evoke a sense of entitlement power – that the same standards of judgment are applied differently to one person compared to another.
American ˜exceptionalism™ draws similarities to the violent behavior of Nazi Germany, who used to justify the violation of human rights through the subjugation by invasion, occupation, and wholesale exploitation of other nations.
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