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minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months agoThis kind of everybody’s doing it argument flattens the scale to which countries are doing it to a binary. No country is doing it to anywhere near the scale to which the US is, just as no country but the US has over 750 overseas military bases around the world, and is building more to further encircle China. No other country constantly has multiple regime change operations in play around the world at the same time.
minus-squareWarmSoda@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoWell yeah. I’m not talking about scale though.
minus-squaretiredturtle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI kinda see your point. Everybody knows the USA does wrong things on a huge scale, and while that is true, the most vocal about it don’t care when the rest of the competing authoritarian regimes do worse things on a smaller scale.
minus-squareTheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoLike? You mean genocide or concentration camps or forced hysterectomies? USA does it, China and Russia “near peer competitors” do not.
This kind of everybody’s doing it argument flattens the scale to which countries are doing it to a binary. No country is doing it to anywhere near the scale to which the US is, just as no country but the US has over 750 overseas military bases around the world, and is building more to further encircle China. No other country constantly has multiple regime change operations in play around the world at the same time.
Well yeah. I’m not talking about scale though.
I kinda see your point. Everybody knows the USA does wrong things on a huge scale, and while that is true, the most vocal about it don’t care when the rest of the competing authoritarian regimes do worse things on a smaller scale.
Like? You mean genocide or concentration camps or forced hysterectomies? USA does it, China and Russia “near peer competitors” do not.