> brutalizing their nearest neighbors

Following your logic: US and its NATO minions are brutalizing countries nowhere near them (Syria, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya - to name a few from the last 30 years), it had (still has?) prisons where Muslims were tortured and the world should have sanctioned it and its businesses and citizens with the harshest sanctions for that.

Tell me more about reputation slide.

I don't really care about the USA in the original context I'm talking about, they're down their own shit creek. Don't live in either country. All I know is that the side you seem to be cheering for hit my own's hospitals out of spite.

Woah woah woah, we’re having a great time feeling holier than thou. Don’t spoil it by mentioning the many horrors we’ve committed around the world.

> committed

Committing.