Ok so this is somehow revision...well first year international relations which may or may not count for future reference!haha!
Today I will be talking about the political undertone of X-men Origins- Wolverine...
So for those who have not seen this movie, I urge you to hook yourselves up with a cinema near you!!!!!!!If not for the love of our beautiful country which was so stupidly portrayed(i.e. the igbo spoken was impure to say the least) but for the sexual prowess of Hugh Jackman...my God...sex on legs...*dreamy eyes*
Back to politics!!!
The American foreign policy
Ok so, the mutants go to Nigeria in search of some stupid stone/diamond and they kill a few people to find it... This is typical of the US and the West in general where they make alliances with countries and then try and take over the governance of the land(democracy is not always the way guys!let Iraq go)... The refusal of the man in the office with the elevator to co-operate with the general cost him his life...The professor and his team assume this role of protection without been asked and this takes its toll on countries like Nigeria who are minding their business doing 419 and smuggling diamonds or whatever it was the 12 disciples in the defence house were up to when the man said 'ton off the elevato' in the most un-Nigerian accent...it was a cross beween Ghana and some country in East or South Africa!!!!this is the first undertone which is shown...the american foreign policy of expansion and promoting democracy at all cost...No america will not be the president of the United States of the World. so what's your bizwax if Timbuktu(its not a country!) won't democratise!Are you neighbours?NO! isich your money?NO...so pls face obesity in your country abeg!(ok that was OP!)
For the protection of the 'american people' the professor is trying to create something which will eradicate these mutants but so what is the Nigerian 'diamond' industry's concern(ps: I am not a guru on Nigerian raw materials but I doubt that the Igbos would be willing to die for something that they most likely don't have!)Same with this 'war on terror'...fair enough innocent civilians died in the twin towers but is the answer to kill thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, and a few more around the middle east...
Another aspect of this is the professor's desire to 'stop them' before they spread...straight out of the foreign office in DC...The american foreign policy is to deter all forms of threat before they think about threatening you...The cold war(which might I add, I don't believe they won, Russia lost!), this issue with Iran having nuclear weapons, Iraq's unfound weapons of mass destruction...So what if they have them, why so paranoid...who cares about you guys...in our world of anarchy, there is no safety, states are going to protect themselves from threat too...If you think you can protect yourself and your citizens, Iran and Iraq should have the free will to do the same!
RANT OVER!
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