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> The US plays "fairly" in international relations? Honestly amazed if anyone truly stands by that statement. If you consider how much power the U.S. has and h
by speedplane 7y ago
> The US plays "fairly" in international relations? Honestly amazed if anyone truly stands by that statement.
If you consider how much power the U.S. has and how often it does not use that power to its fullest advantage, it's pretty remarkable how much it holds back.
- qwsxyh 7y agoNot being as evil as they possibly could is not really good.
- manigandham 7y agoThere are dozens of countries murdering their own citizens. The US is not nearly as much as problem as people want to make it seem and Pax Americana has led to almost a century without major worldwide war.
- qwsxyh 7y ago> There are dozens of countries murdering their own citizens. I assume you're including the US in this, too.
- manigandham 7y agoIn what way?
- ganzuul 7y agoThe death sentence is the same thing, just with more decoration.
- manigandham 7y agoYou mean criminals tried, found guilty, lost all appeals, and sentenced to death? This is not the same thing as countries killing their own innocent citizens.
- ganzuul 7y agoYes. Many have been wrongly sentenced in spite of all those decorations.
- manigandham 7y agoThere's a massive difference between wrongly-fully sentenced inmates and countries that kill innocents through authoritarian means. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
- ganzuul 7y agoThere are similarities too.
- manigandham 7y agoWhich are overshadowed by the differences. North Korea and the United States are not the same, but you already know this.
- ganzuul 7y agoThey are not overshadowed because life is not a commodity bartered according to rules of law. Once you take a life there is no restitution. Life is not a transaction: it is destiny, and it is above the law. Rules and reasons for why killing is okay are therefore all equally wrong.
- Bakary 7y agoI don't think they're holding back so much as the Pax Americana system is the most profitable for them. They aren't powerful enough to choke the whole world, nor would they even want to.
- ShorsHammer 7y agoThis is actually a fair call. It could be far far worse. Still reasonable to complain about as a Western citizen barely affected if not benefiting from it.