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"The two great enemies of the rules based international order & the free world in the first half of this century will be China & Russia.". I'll join everyone e
by robinsoh 5y ago
"The two great enemies of the rules based international order & the free world in the first half of this century will be China & Russia.".
I'll join everyone else here in pretending that we upheld and didn't violate any rules let alone breaching multiple UN resolutions, supporting, funding, arming multiple repressive dictators and repressive regimes.
Wow. Just wow.
- cuteboy19 5y agoBeing "repressive dictators and repressive regimes" is worse than having funded them sometime in the past. And I say this as someone whose country was harmed because of these activities
- robinsoh 5y agoGuess which country has the highest proportion of its population incarcerated?
- bpodgursky 5y agoChina has turned entire provinces into semi-genocidal concentration camps, so I'm going to go with them.
- cuteboy19 5y agoWhataboutism. Unrelated to the topic at hand. Such type of discussion is better left to some default subreddit
- robinsoh 5y agoI notice that questioning the mainstream view here appears to be instantly responded with as "whataboutism". I fully understand when people don't want their faith questioned, but to then pretend it is consistent with verifiable data is a bit much. The reason I asked the question is because that's verifiable data. It is hard to claim to be free when one is incarcerated. Therefore, if a country has a high proportion of its citizens incarcerated then to describe that country as a free country is questionable in accuracy.
- SkeuomorphicBee 5y agoI disagree, toppling a democracy and setting dictators and repressive regimes somewhere else is much worse than being "repressive dictators and repressive regimes" inside your own borders. Don't get me wrong, none of those options is good, but the latter at least is somewhat contained.