• Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    ? The most recent one is the ongoing genocide in Palestine that the US and its colony is committing.

    No, “israel” isn’t a separate entity. It was formed as a general western settler colony in Palestine using british colonization tactics, and has been functioning as an american one.

      • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zone
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        I don’t think US elections are terribly real either. You get whoever the Republicans want or you get whoever the Democrats want. If you don’t want either of those and vote for someone else you risk your least preferred candidate winning. You don’t get to decide who runs.

        I’m not saying I like Russia and China but you can’t claim that their actions in anyway justify what the US does.

        Also just because this post is about the US it doesn’t mean the other atrocities aren’t happening. Do we have to mention what China and the US are doing whenever the Ukraine war is brought up? Seems like a bit of a silly argument really

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        The US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, and its government is thus directly or indirectly responsible for a large part of the suffering in the world right now — be it directly through wars, genocides/massacres, sanctions, embargoes, or indirectly through economic imperialism or neocolonialism — so yes, that should be the first country anyone comes up with. Probably also because I happen to be from one of its victim countries.

        China has an active genocide

        All claims of this come from imperial core countries or “independent” orgs funded by its corporations.

        The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and delegates from dozens of Global South countries approve of China’s handling of the ETIM (a problem deliberately created by the US through Afganistan by the way) and deny western claims. This lines up with what the hundreds of millions of annual tourists to the region say.

        Between the western govs responsible for killing, and continuing to kill, millions of muslims in the past few decades alone throughout Africa, Middle-East, Asia, and global south countries without a recent history of doing so (they are the victims rather), I for one know which not to trust.

        Russia

        The US colony has killed three times more civilians in its genocide in the past few months than the Russian military has in 2 years in its proxy war with the US. This isn’t remotely comparable.

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            Idk man. As far as I understood, the main post is about the US, which the comment you replied to also talked about. And then you’re wondering why that person talked about the US and not other countries.