In his TedxCERN talk, Sinan Aral talked about how the world could remain safe in the face of misinformation. During his talk, he mentioned the Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential elections. This is one of the many problems that plague the world, the intervention of countries in the domestic affairs of other sovereign states.
The earliest intervention of a country in another country’s domestic affairs is probably the Opium Wars, when the United Kingdom invaded China in response to a Chinese crackdown on opium smuggling. Since then, many countries and their respective intelligence agencies have interfered, militarily or otherwise, in other countries’ domestic affairs. A few examples would be the 1953 Iranian coup d’etat, the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, and the Russo-Georgian War.
Countries, especially the world’s superpowers of the United States, Russia, and China, must stop trying to influence and interfere with the affairs of other sovereign states. Every country has the right to govern and control its territory, and that should not be affected by another country’s desire to control the world.
