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False equivocation? Certainly the US doesn’t need to get involved or hands dirty with everything; this is a choice by its leaders. It is a government policy to enable such cruelty and use soft power to manipulate perceptions.

The false equivocation is calling out other countries when similar or worse atrocities have been carried out by the Us and there still are no reparations, restitutions, or repercussions to dissuade continued US aggression and transgression.

I am all for scrutiny of governments, but to leverage one against another while ignoring or downplaying, it is not a real argument, it’s optics.




The comparison is between countries with wildly different roles in the world my friend. It is not apt.


That type of belief is, in my opinion, self-serving and a way to justify geopolitical hierarchies. You may as well say the quiet part out loud that people from weaker countries are worth less.


I am not American. People in weaker countries are geopolitically worth less. Geopolitical hierarchies don't need to be justified, simply observed.

It is not as if the rest of the planet will simply fall into line with your Kumbaya attitude, so empty moralizing rhetoric is self-serving, sorry.




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