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The free people of the world have a right to protect themselves from authoritarians and to assist other free people in doing so. That seems like a pretty fundam
by postingawayonhn 4y ago
The free people of the world have a right to protect themselves from authoritarians and to assist other free people in doing so. That seems like a pretty fundamental moral principle to follow.
- yogthos 4y agoBeing a vassal of the US is not freedom. Also, every instance of US "assisting" a country has resulted in creating hellish conditions for people of that country. Stop helping.
- postingawayonhn 4y agoWestern Europe, Taiwan, and South Korea and now all wealthy democracies thanks in a large part to US assistance. It hasn't been successful every time the US has gone to a country's aid, but some countries just can't be helped.
- yogthos 4y agoLMAO this same South Korea? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-south-koreans-call-their-country-hell-and-look-for-ways-out/2016/01/30/34737c06-b967-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/young-sout...
- NonEUCitizen 4y agoThe US supported the dictators Chiang Kai-Shek and Chiang Ching-Kuo when they were oppressing the people of Taiwan. US also supported dictators in South Korea and the Philippines, as well as in Latin America.
- postingawayonhn 4y agoFrom the end of WW2 to the end of the Cold War the US foreign policy was primarily focused on stopping communism. In some cases they supported dictatorial governments because the alternative at the time (at least in their eyes) would have been worse.
- yogthos 4y agoYeah, weird how US always sided with the brutal dictators while USSR sided with the masses of the people in the countries. It's just so hard to say which was on the right side of history.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoSo? Are you claiming that means the US can't help the Taiwanese in their goal of self determination?
- yogthos 4y agoOne has to be incredibly naive to believe that US is constantly at war killing countless millions of people to protect freedoms. US is an empire that subjugates countries to its will to extract their labour and resources. Here's what US protecting freedoms looks like in practice https://ia800309.us.archive.org/26/items/fp_Killing_Hope-US_Military_and_CIA_Interventions_Since_WWII-William_Blum/Killing_Hope-US_Military_and_CIA_Interventions_Since_WWII-William_Blum.pdf https://ia800309.us.archive.org/26/items/fp_Killing_Hope-US_... https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-the-unrecorded-fatalities-of-the-war-on-terror/ https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-...