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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by jialutu on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:59AM (#23417479)
Let's also not forget if this was in any other country, the US would be sanctioning them already, making a bad situation even worse! I am personally very glad to see this potentially being the end of the US hegemony.
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by ofcrookedtimber on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:16PM (#23418510)
The issue of "What comes after US hegemony?" should trouble you even more.

I can envision a lot of scenarios that are worse than now.

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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by jialutu on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:25PM (#23419303)
What troubles me more is the idea that you think there needs or has to be some sort of hegemony in the first place. I personally know of scenarios that is already far worse in the world today because of this idea of someone having to uphold some sort of hegemony.
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by craftinator on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:06PM (#23419110)
Power vacuums are a very dangerous thing. This is how ISIS/ISIL came to power after all...
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by thatguy0900 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:38PM (#23418782)
Time to start learning Chinese?
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by bobmcbobface on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:43PM (#23418845)
How do you say 'how do I keep my internal organs AND my religion' in mandarin?
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by bobmcbobface on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:42PM (#23418832)
What utter nonsense.
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Re:CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels by jialutu on Thursday June 04, 2020 @01:19PM (#23419238)
Which part? The sanctions part or the hegemon part? Here is a list of US sanctions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

I love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.

And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...

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