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Yli.think you make a reasonable point, but it feels like choosing between getting stabbed in the left leg vs the right leg.
If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.
I'm particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:
I might have a different perspective though. I'm a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.
Edit: I'd like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I'm just trying to understand people's overall perspective and whether mine is different, I'm not trying to argue and I'm not upset at you nor any of the commenters I've seen on similar posts.
Why would you say that? Meanwhile, Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Which isn’t surprising since capitalist democracy is a sham democracy.
I can only say that they are freer than Anglosphere propaganda claim. Meanwhile Julian Assange has been a political prisoner for 12 years and counting, despite even the major Global North corporate media pleading for his exoneration.
I’m not sure which countries you’re referring to, but maybe you mean the other imperial core countries. As neocolonizers, they are no more well-intentioned than the US is, from the perspective of the periphery countries they plunder.
You're getting hit by a some bad faith willful misunderstander comments
It's true that Russia or China aren't well-intentioned nor democracies AND the USA belongs to that same group.
I was wondering whether what felt like common sense to me was the same as what felt like common sense for others, and I see that between us it's not.
I'm not gonna bother trying to argue with you, I doubt it would be productive in any way, I'm not gonna change your mind. Additionally, you've put a lot of words into my mouth and inferred that I believe a lot of things that I really don't believe, which is a bit upsetting.