[pkinsky]

>The US doesn't start invasions and pretends it's someone else's military.

Drone strikes come to mind. Didn't the US claim that bombings in Yemen where the work of the local government?

That said, the order of magnitude is indeed different.

[smsm42]

US didn't occupy Yemen and claim it's "local self-defense forces" and then rushed through a fake referendum to make Yemen part of the US, last time I checked. So I'm not sure what is here to compare. Each major country has intelligence and clandestine operations which are not publicly acknowledged, but it's different between cloak-and-dagger stuff and occupying a part of neighboring country and trying to present it as if they did it to themselves.