Re:Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
by objektif on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @09:39PM
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Is that how it works? How about letting your ally wipe out a sovereign nation in the ME? Does that count as these days? Or casually kill 2+ mln civilians in Iraq.
“These days” also apply to us and our allies and it is an unfortunate part of how things run.
Re:Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @07:00AM
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>> These days you're supposed to let sovereign democracies do their own thing even if they have smaller armies.
Yes, until they make the mistake of democratically electing someone you don't like, at which point you send in the secret services to instigate violent regime change.
There's an entire wikipedia article dedicated to the US doing that all over the place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
They sort of did that to my own country (Greece) where they supported a ridiculous military dictatorship (Junta), although I don't think they actively helped it to power. If you find my comments coloured by a certain antipathy towards US external policy, that may be one reason.
It seems a bit of a historical change - in the 19th century view it would be ok for the Russians to get pissed off with the US trying to steal their Ukrainian peasants and associated property. These days you're supposed to let sovereign democracies do their own thing even if they have smaller armies.