(September 4, 2022 at 9:41 am)Helios Wrote:Quote:China has the Uyghurs in concentration camps. What are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about China's hold on Taiwan? Should we stop trade with China over this? What say you? We depend on China, so you can't really say yes to that.. but.. dictator. North Korea is a hellscape with millions starving. What to do? Sometimes dictators just win. Especially when it comes to superpowers. If China takes over a little piece of land, do we physically go to war with China just to show that dictators can't get away with stuff because.. American exceptionalism and we're justified in being the world police? Or should we think very carefully first before getting into that fight? The US sells weapons and is a top ally to Saudi Arabia who sponsor terrorism and beheads people for being atheists or protesting or disturbing the fabric of society as they call it. Saudi literally funded the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi cuts up journalists who were living in the America with hacksaws. Like Boru pointed out, wars are geopolitical. The "official reason" from the mainstream media is always some bullocks that just doesn't compute with reality.And now you're engaging in whataboutism and saying we bend over China lol.
No Dictators only win if we let them.
It's not whataboutism. I posted that to debunk the hardline and naive stance Tomato seemed to be pushing that we can't let bad people get away with bad things in the world. Would anyone really suggest stopping trade with China because of the Uyghur and Taiwan situations? By trading with China, we are giving them a pass for having concentration camps. The US doesn't seem to care much about those concentration camps. And pointing out Saudi Arabia to Tomato proves the point that the US is AOK with dictators, as long as it's their dictator, so yeah, this is not about 'standing up to a bully' because we're so moral and just. It's about geopolitics.
