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But no one holds even a candle to us
That's just absolutely and totally false. Most of those regimes were far worse than us.
How to synthesize decades of U.S. foreign policy...Latin America alone is a potent enough example. Look at all our military and economic interventions there. And then look at where all those terrible regimes got their support
We've definitely done our share of nasty stuff, but there's really no comparison to, say, Russia, or China under Mao.
They’ve certainly been destructive to their own people; I haven’t argued otherwise. I can’t say definitively that our repression is worse than theirs but it is at least on par, and certainly wider-ranging
Not just their own people, as the Poles and the Ukrainians would be happy to tell you
Sure the entirety of Eastern Europe. I get that. What I don’t get is that people buy into the myth of American exceptionalism rather than honestly questioning our impact on world politics
Under Stalin yes, if we’re just talking about Russia
Lenin too, Khruschev to a lesser extent, Brezhnev got worse again. It was bad. And Vietnam dealt with another war in 1979 (China), but after that its economy languished for decades under its brand of communism. Cuba and North Korea too.
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