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frisbird@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Right, so as I suspected, you just won’t bring any of this into context. You have to twist yourself into pretzels to avoid stating the obvious.

I assume the “neo Nazis” you’re talking about, represent the US? So, you’re suggesting that the US has been roving around in the South China Sea, randomly robbing and killing people recently, and that China is only trying to protect itself

Yes, it’s about the US and no it’s not about the US murdering people specifically in the SCS just as in the story the blockade is happening at the critical entrances to the block.

In case you haven’t noticed, the US has been roving around the world killing, raping, robbing, and torturing for decades. The Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Cuba, Libya, Somalia… And those are just the easy the ones to identify. The US has been non-stop beligerent all over the world. It has 700 foreign military bases. Domestically its intelligentsia and academics and news media and propagandists have been writing about winning nuclear war for decades, have been writing about defeating China in a war based on US preemptive strikes, have been constantly using their international diplomatic platform to war monger against China and others.

China is doing none of these things. China hasn’t dropped a bomb since 1989. Despite the US training terrorists and literally air dropping them into Tibet, China has never gone on a rampage the way the US did after 9/11. China doesn’t train death squads and send them all over South Anerica to kill farmers and families that might vote for social democrats.

Because the US hasn’t been involved in any conflicts in that region since at least the end of the Vietnam war.

Again, totally decontextualized and essentially saying that China has nothing to worry about despite the US demonstrating daily that China has everything to worry about.

The US has deep covert ties all over the area that stem from their drug running operations that they developed during the post war era. Under Obama, 2/3rds of US naval assets were repositioned to be in the Pacific in Obama’s very open and explicit “pivot to Asia”. It is an absolutely constant threat to China and China is doing everything it can to develop itself while avoiding war while also ensuring it is capable of defending itself if the US choose to continue to push towards war.

You have absolutely no problem critcizing the US for being a bad actor but the minute China does anything to assert itself on the world stage suddenly nothing the US did or does matters at all.

Again. You have to realize how disingenuous it is to say “sure the US has been talking about attacking China for 2 decades now and sure it killed 500k children in Iraq and sure it lies diplomatically to create false diplomatic pretenses for a meeting that it used to assassinate a top Iranian official via drone strike and sure it funds fanatical and violent proxies all over East Asia and sure it is destroying boats with its naval assets in the Caribbean and sure its constantly at war with anyone and everyone and sure it runs constant military exercises in the regiona surrounding China to ensure it has sufficient military capabilities for an invasion but China has absolutely nothing to fear in the SCS specifically because when was the last time the US killed anyone specifically in the SCS?!”

It’s very tiring.

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