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the point is that the US is the only super-power. so comparing BadThings done by the US with BadThings done by Russia or Nigeria or some other place would be no
by DyslexicAtheist 5y ago
the point is that the US is the only super-power. so comparing BadThings done by the US with BadThings done by Russia or Nigeria or some other place would be nothing but whataboutism.
if a country is nr. 1 and runs the biggest propaganda operation the world has ever seen (Hollywood, Netflix, but also US based social media companies inventing algorithms that influence and steer behavior) then they need to be treated with large amount of pressure and critic to everything they do (justified or not).
The problem in all of this is that the emperor has no clothes. E.g. the emperor being the polarized US public that doesn't see that their country didn't have any form of coherent foreign policy that wasn't a racist, war-mongering and hypocrite "America first" (since at least Reagan).