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Not to dispute your point, but this strikes me as a rather wrong stick to measure countries' "badness". There's no difference between mistreating people within and outside of one's borders. Compared to the millions China is keeping in concentration camps the border tensions aren't even worth mentioning.

Also, how does Iran not fit the same profile? It's currently #1 world news that their top official got bombed by the US while busy meddling in Iraqi affairs.

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So Iran being active IB its geopolitical area is meddling, but the US causing the death of a million Iraqis, flying drones over Iraqi air space, bombing people in Iraqi airports is not?

> US causing the death of a million Iraqis, flying drones over Iraqi air space, bombing people in Iraqi airports is not

Go ahead and point me to where I said it or assumed it.

Americans have already decided they cannot possibly be held responsible for the war crimes of their state, nor do they have any interest in putting their own leading war figures in the appropriate places (i.e. The Hague) - so you can expect no collective agreement from the HN scene.

But I just wanted to let you know, I have only one upvote to give, but I'll take the downvotes along with you.

We must not stand for the Western aggression to go unacknowledged, nor must we civilised people with the luxury of functioning society (i.e. bridges not yet bombed) allow the war criminals to escape justice.

Every single time the people of the USA assassinate another sovereign entities citizens around the world, it makes itself another few million enemies who would gladly shun Americans, individually, for the deeds of their state.

It is a terrible state of affairs - but rest assured, not everyone sees war as inevitable. We must resist.

> Compared to the millions China is keeping in concentration camps the border tensions aren't even worth mentioning.

It's millions now? Seems like every day, the propaganda keeps increasing the number.

> It's currently #1 world news that their top official got bombed by the US while busy meddling in Iraqi affairs.

So the country on the other side of the world that is bombing Iraqis is not meddling? Was it the general of a neighboring country the one that was "meddling" or was the US the one that is "meddling".

You rarely see a twofer. An anti-china and anti-iran propaganda straight from the pentagon talking point.

"In war, truth is the first casualty." -- Aeschylus

> Seems like every day, the propaganda keeps increasing the number.

That's been "the number" for a while now. E.g. Shohrat Zakir, chairman of Xinjiang, said during a press conference, when asked about the number of affected persons 一些媒体称新疆教培中心学员“有上百万甚至两百万”，纯属捏造、毫无根据 "Some media claim that Xinjiang's education centers hold 'a million or even two" students, this is completely made up and baseless." However, he failed to provide an alternative number, so "millions" is the best estimate available.

http://www.scio.gov.cn/xwfbh/xwbfbh/wqfbh/39595/42206/index....

If only they had thrown in an anti-Russia propaganda in there they would've had me! /s we are way to easy to play with..

Americans, you need to understand this - and well: we do not compare China's concentration camps with your kiddy jails.

We compare it with the million innocent people America slaughtered in its illegal wars, and which it continues to slaughter with impunity, under the cover of its heinous "Coalition" quasi-sovereign joint task forces, which exist solely to let Americans get away with murder, while none of us are looking/able to witness the horror.

Now, on top of that, like - really seriously here - America has actual concentrations camps of its own: it's prisons.

Which nation on Earth has the highest portion of its population working as indentured slaves for less than $1 a day in a for-profit complex run by a cabal?

It is not China, or at least .. it could be.

But hey, lets solve one problem at a time. Want to bomb China into letting its slaves free, or maybe pay more attention to the local, at home policies which produce the same conditions, different brand ..

> Americans, you need to understand this - and well

I am a Belarusian replying to an Ukrainian in a comment thread about Russia, China and Iran. Nice rant though.

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