My crypto-friendly friend found this to be the only way to supply his parents with remittances out of Australia.
As I told him, besides gambling, theft and paying for drugs, this is all it is good for.
Because they are participating in this governance. Countries bear responsibility collectively for their actions. And yes, absolutely Americans should be held to the same standards.
Did they get any sanctions? Nah
Take Abu Ghraib, clearly wrongdoing on the part of the government. The folks involved were exposed, prosecuted, and punished. The revelations of the incident kicked off a top down investigation of how military interrogations are performed and a public report on the matter. Politicians were unseated and hands on perpetrators were imprisoned.
Contrast that with the current situation where Putin receives widespread support from Russian people for committing war crimes while invading Ukraine and the perpetrators were rewarded. I cannot think of any “worse atrocities” the US has committed in my living memory.
There are arguably several situations in US history that should have led to prosecutions that didn’t, such as how we behaved regarding Iraq as another commenter pointed out. I do bear responsibility for that with other Americans, but as you have pointed out we did not suffer the consequences, mostly for political reasons.
And weren't all your president approving drone strikes on kids and families for decades?
The level of propaganda that americans consume is not to different to the one of russians.
Ofc it didn't help that Ukraine was harboring entire Nazi battalions.
Just think if China was putting a military base in the mexican border and Mexico hired Nazis to fight for them. What would the international response would be like? Not too difficult to imagine eh?
Ukraine was not harboring "Nazi battalions". The US has never intentionally targeted children with drone strikes. Both of these things are ridiculous to even state.
The news media in the US absolutely engages in propaganda, however it's usually for the benefit of the wealthy, not so much for the benefit of the government. In the US, you get unedited access to news from around the world, it is a trivial matter to read Channel NewsAsia (from Singapore), Al Jazeera (from Qatar), or Der Spiegel (from Germany) in English on the Internet, all of which are much less friendly to US policy interests globally and are more than happy to write scathingly about US behaviors abroad.
Good luck to you.
Oh sorry the US does it constantly by mistake. Its just stuck on a loop.
As if the government and the wealthy weren't extremely closely related. One even might say "twins"
Bigger picture: transfer of value without a middle-man or central authority.
Now that's something.
So, starving folks who may or may not agree with their governments politics is a good thing in your book?
You clearly have the moral high ground here.