I think this comparison only stands if you narrowly view the US's actions in their own uniforms under their own flag. If you include covert assistance to coups

I think this comparison only stands if you narrowly view the US's actions in their own uniforms under their own flag. If you include covert assistance to coups and juntas, training fascist insurrectionists, supplying weapons to genocidal autocrats, and the proxy wars... well maybe still they aren't the same but they're playing in the same league for sure. It's not preposterous to make the comparison.