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> There are plenty of places where the threat level against journalists is equivalent to the US and quite a few where it is actually less.

While your point is well taken, I haven't seen any US administration execute a journalist for quite a while.

Russia and China don't have quite so much restraint. And most of the petty dictatorships and theocracies make Russia and China look perfectly reasonable.

The fact that the US is not a bastion of moral rectitude does not automatically grant moral equivalence to bad or worse actors.

I am perfectly capable of condemning the actions of the US government and working to make it better even while acknowledging that it is better than most and worse than some.

"But he does it, too!" is not a valid argument for justification. But neither is it a valid reason to refrain from reasoned comparison.