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tweet in which jon points out the obvious and libs get mad

excerpt from a Libbrainworms:

Jon gives his best impression of a 14 year old tankie in this video.

The following is true simultaneously:

  1. It is appropriate to critique US foreign policy, it’s actually necessary in a free society.
  2. Some bad actions are worse than others. Iraq wasn’t annexed into the 51st state, as opposed to Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.
  3. Not all foreign policy decisions are zero sum, it’s possible for both parties to derive a benefit from an agreement (US and Philippines for example).

what a great deal

amerikkka i receive Military bases and access to your natural resources

you philippines-cool received: a US backed dictatorship

  1. The world does not revolve around the US, people in the Kremlin have agency.
  2. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and PRC threats of a Taiwan invasion are not about US foreign policy, they are a response to internal Russian and PRC pressures.
  3. Not every policy decision is based on trade and natural resources, those some of the variables in a long list of strategic considerations.
  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    72·
    5 months ago

    He doesn’t even says the word Ukraine, all he says is that, like all countries, the US does things for economic reasons rather than for vague platitudes.

    “Haven’t we sown the seeds of this with our own arrogance and cavalier approach to a lot of these foreign policy conflicts? A) we always frame these things as ‘this is a battle between democracy and the free world and liberation and authoritarianism’, but the truth is we’re fighting for trade channels and resources. Like, this is all a function of competing capitalist powers and aren’t we the ones- I mean, we’ve invaded more countries than Russia and China combined. So how do we give ourselves somehow the passes to be the white hat guys when a lot of our policies have created a lot of the chaos that they’re taking advantage of.” [Audience starts clapping]