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I don't think a contest of who is the worse human-rights abuser brings much, but recall that the US: * Occupied Afghanistan for 20 years, and its last act ther
by DiogenesKynikos 5y ago
I don't think a contest of who is the worse human-rights abuser brings much, but recall that the US:
* Occupied Afghanistan for 20 years, and its last act there was to drone strike an aid worker and his family.
* Invaded Iraq based on false claims of WMD, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
* Helped overthrow the government of Libya, plunging the country into a decade of chaos.
I'm not going to defend China's actions (though I would push back against some of the absurd exaggerations that are often made), but some perspective is needed here.
- kcb 5y agoBy making this post on a US based platform you have proved his point.
- fortuna86 5y agoHey it's you again, defending autocrats with endless whataboutisms. Again. You aren't providing "prospective" by desperately trying to shift the focus away from China onto the US, you are running interference for them. Oh, and Libya was a NATO operation in which the US largely took a back seat to the French, British, and Canadian Air Forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_... If you are going to propagandize, you might as well be accurate.