This to an audience that is about 1/3 foreign employees, who are all sitting there going "even when it's my country the US is invading?"
For a more recent example, Prince Andrew and Prince Harry have real military experience. They were not fighting in trenches with bayonets, but they were not in a 100% safe possition.
“Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”
- Pink Floyd, Us and Them
Funny how the only thing that's changed is that now there's a lucrative industry reaching into every sector whereas there once were only a handful of profiteers.
He gave some controversial statements, that's true, but "diehard worshiper" is simply false.
> "The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms," he said via video link.
> "Also, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms."
> He continued: "So what do the voiceless millions have to say? They say thank you for hearing us today. We are many who do not share in the profits of the war industry.
> "We do not willingly raise our sons and daughters to provide fodder for your cannons.
> "In our opinion, the only sensible course of action today is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine. Not one more Ukrainian or Russian life is to be spent, not one, they are all precious in our eyes."
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64580688
But he's definitely quite naive, and is inadvertently serving Putin's interests.
Meta is an American company. This shouldn't be a surprise, and in fact is the default expectation. The same logic applies to companies in other countries and any belief to the contrary is badly mistaken.
The first immediately replies to any request and offers additional information the requestor may not have even known to ask for, the second fights everything in court and drags feet as much as possible.
On paper they may seem very similar, on the ground they're entirely different.
But I'd argue that anyone from pretty much anywhere in the Middle East, Asia, or Latin America has reasonable historical grounds to question if US intervention is in their future (whether clandestine or a full-blown invasion).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-calls...
Then they should be much more concerned about their country invading Taiwan than the US invading them.
> I can assure you a lot of them are less than thrilled by the rhetoric around China as the #1 enemy of the US. I worked there when Trump's first round of trade tariffs were being implemented, and we were busy relocating the our hardware manufacturing outside of China - it was a tense environment.
Well tough shit. I'm less than thrilled about the actions China takes against the US, yet I still work with Chinese coworkers.
> But I'd argue that anyone from pretty much anywhere in the Middle East, Asia, or Latin America has reasonable historical grounds to question if US intervention is in their future (whether clandestine or a full-blown invasion).
If we're moving the goalposts to include clandestine intervention, then no major power has clean hands.
The rest have made a choice to work in the west mostly because it is considerably better than China.