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No comparison was made, you're just reading a lot into one sentence.

The top-level comment was edited. It originally said that it was chillingly familiar to us or something along those lines.

Ah, thanks for pointing this out.

I mean, that's because the US and UK are doing that right now. I don't agree they cannot be compared

No they are not. Neither the UK nor the US are murdering protestors at any comparable scale at this point in time.

Do UK and the US import Iraqi militias to suppress local unrest?