• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      That’s their standard go-to line now: they can’t argue that the West is good anymore, it’s become too obvious that it’s not, so now they always resort to “but everyone else does it!”

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    i hope that watching the only other world power resort to sternly written letters both w this and gaza like some feckless democrat is not a portent of things to come.

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    If china cut a deal with venezuela it would get cheap oil and could protect its ships. I think the US ‘department of war’ may just be accellerating the shifting of world power against the US.

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    Everyone including these assholes know that what they’re doing is illegal, the only reason they’re spinning it as copesthetic is to make themselves appear to be the good guys… they know no one is going to do shit about it except “bitch and moan because TDS.”

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    It’s hilarious that China now stands for International Rule Of Law and the US stands for Piracy and Genocide.

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      It’s almost as if one of these nations has an ancient and deeply ingrained tradition of legalism and the other makes international law simply to use as a weapon against weaker powers

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    They’re not wrong. This time. Although they assert illegal maritime rules all the time.

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      yes, china, the country that is so famous for its wide and complex history of international conflicts, oh right, that’s not china, it’s the usa which has been in war every year since it’s genocided the aborigines and inspired hitler in doing so. you westerners live in a parallel universe sustained by the suffering of the global south

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      China has consistently been far more respectful of International Law than the West has been.

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    It’s only more of the epstein shuffle. Those ships will be given back very soon now. It’s his last ditch effort before the compost hits the Cuisinart.