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Of course they're not. Ideally they would be, but I haven't observed that they generally are and wouldn't make such a claim.

Even if the criticism is fair, it's still whataboutism. I agree with you that countries other than China have done bad things, including post-WWII, but not that it in any way justi…

It sounds like we have some common ground, but I think you may have a misunderstanding of the present American worldview and politics. We're 79 years removed from Philippine indepe…

I'm sure that's subjectively clear to you, maybe not so much to the people actually living in Taiwan or the hypothetical independent California.

I'm not referring to any specific actions or commenting on who did what. I summarized what I've observed to be the common perception, which is that Iraq and Afghanistan were "forev…

I haven't commented one way or another on the likelihood of an invasion. My claim is that an escalation from limited airstrikes to full-scale invasion would be wildly unpopular, wh…

Yep, any war of aggression would be wildly unpopular today. Limited actions may be somewhat tolerated inasmuch as they're seen as being at the behest of the legitimate Venezuelan g…

Yep, it's 100% common knowledge. I distinctly remember my teacher making a point to explain why Chiang Kai-shek and Jiang Jieshi were both valid transliterations in my 10th grade w…