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  • workerONE@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    US involvement in South America has been brutal- murder, terrorism, starting civil wars…Societies were torn apart in ways they may never recover from. How can you consider this an option and publicly advocate for it? That’s fucked up

    Edit: ITT people downvoting me who don’t want to hear about US operations in South America and also people who like US operations in South America.

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        2 months ago

        calling something whataboutism is such a cop-out. what has the user said that distracts from the greater debate?

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          2 months ago

          Cause the USA could leave NATO tomorrow and the discussion of NATO vs Russia wouldn’t change. So the USA is irrelevant in this conversation. Plus, those were USA/CIA actions, not NATO actions. And NATO isn’t ruled by the USA, no matter how much some people around here like insisting.

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            2 months ago

            the conversation had mentioned the US, western powers and derailed to an extent from the original post.