[chrischen]

The article we are commenting on literally describes indiscriminate killing of people by the US military. If all you have to do to justify killing a people or imprisoning them in Guantanamo is to label them as terrorists then China is way ahead of you. They are just preempting their own terrorists. So is Russia. They are just fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

It’s pointless to argue who is more corrupt/evil. It doesn’t matter if one side is even a lot more rotten than the other. Any rotting system will continue to rot until they resemble each other.

My whole point revolves around the ignorance of Americans to their own atrocities, because, believe it or not, that Chinese citizen has the same line of thinking on their own country’s atrocities.

You might argue that Chinese citizens are also subject to propaganda on the atrocities. But actually many are well aware of that. The difference in America is that we think we don’t have propaganda. Propaganda is really just a prevailing spin in information. Just because there is free speech doesn’t mean some prevailing biased take cannot exist.

[watwut]

The comment I am responding to is not so much about American guilt as about arguing that China is somehow better. Note how not a single sentence in my comment rationalized or minimized Guantanamo.

> So is Russia. They are just fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

I know this is tangential, but that is not actually all that Putin is saying tho. His rationale is way more far reaching and involves a lot about where he see Ukrainien future as such.

As in,even going by Russia propaganda, this statement is not true.