It is easy to criticize poor countries for failing to challenge US/Western
dominance. In fact, they tried, and the result was economic sanctions, regime
change and war. The only silver lining is that this predatory form of capitalism
encouraged small countries in the Global South to formulate their own
economic blocks, so they may negotiate with greater leverage. However, even
that was not enough to influence, let alone dismantle, the skewed global
paradigm.
