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> but an eye for an eye doesn't end well and the US is supposed to be "free" so this part of the argument I wouldn't agree with. "stay on the moral high ground
by mschuster91 3y ago
> but an eye for an eye doesn't end well and the US is supposed to be "free" so this part of the argument I wouldn't agree with.
"stay on the moral high ground" only works when the other side is roughly playing by the same rules as you are.
With authoritarian nations, with authoritarian leaders? They see any kind of even the slightest allowance as a weakness to exploit, an explicit allowance to move the Overton window. We should have kneecapped China years ago, when the first complaints about industrial espionage came in, and same for Russia after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine. We didn't, and now we're a bunch of lame ducks swimming in a pond of manure.