Empire came up in my piece on Wednesday, as the model that best describes foreign relations - at least according to that hippy dippy leftist, Henry Kissinger.
Imperialist nationalism routinely has me down, but I recognize that in my humanism I am in the vocal minority. The vocal majority loves state projects more than anything else - and so we have wars of empire all over, including this one with the UAE in Sudan - and no hope of anything better arising in our lifetimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/uae-sudan-war-peace-emirates-uk-us-officials
This is why I think the best we can do, as individuals, is to deepen our commitment to hyperregional globalism, where we strive to build more robust forms of mutual aid in our 'hoods, and advocate for more resilient, pluralist, & democratic views of societies everywhere.
I do not hide this subject-position.
I know I'm not the only one sick to my stomach from the brutality of empire.
But a humanist view needs to accept that other humans might think very very differently. And right now most do.