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Putin is a particular kind of evil; the autocratic, personally liable kind. He murders and jails opposition, which I find more abhorrent than the bureaucratic and societal evils of American power. While American atrocities have equaled autocratic ones, there’s rarely a single person you can hold accountable for embodying our bad ideas and behaviors.

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Yet the United States have tortured POWs, arguably worse than murder for the immense suffering that causes both physically and psychologically.

>There’s rarely a single person you can hold accountable for embodying our bad ideas and behaviors.

Which is much more dangerous than being able to place responsibly on a non-amorphous, single person. The US has an extensively long history of interfering in the matters of other countries. You can overthrow and point fingers at one figure head, but you can't overthrow a system, systemic, and systematically unaccountable foreign policy that changes face every 4-8 years.

Dick Cheney.

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