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China has been China-ing for a while, we get it. America's actions are relatively fresh, and a majority of us DID choose him. While I'll immediately reassure people that I didn't vote for him, the fact that I have to separate myself from what's going on comes from a sense of shame over that.
That said, if I met a Russian I wouldn't necessarily hold the invasion of Ukraine against them... But I might have to ask if they really support that shit.
China has been eliminating poverty for quite some time. In fact, over the last 70 years, China accounts for 80% or more of the entire global poverty alleviation gains. The US has created more poverty in that same time.
But also, the US has been racist, violent, colonialist, jingoistic, misogynistic, and white supremacist since it's founding. You know those propaganda images DHS posts on Twitter? Those are from the US's time of westward expansion. This isn't new. What's new is that we have given up on trying to hide it, which is something we did for for the last 70 years. But even in the 40s we had concretation camps, we had open racism in all of politics, we had the second largest Nazi group in the world.
And after WW2? Operation Paperclip? Operation Gladio? The US openly staffed NATO with Nazi officers. The US openly advocated for Nazi politicians to lead West Germany. There were literal Nazis running West German after the war.
And then of course the Korean War. The Vietnam War. The Irag wars. The Afghanistan war. The embargo against Cuba. The coup in Iran.
This is what the US is. Nixon banned heroin explicitly to imprison black people. We have slave labor producing billions of dollars in value annually. And we punish our prison slaves who don't work by giving them solitary. All of that is massive gross human rights violations, things we've pretended to invade other countries for.
This is who we are. It's not new.