• rook@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    hated for being world police but also hated for not “doing something” about international injustices. US can’t win.

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      1 year ago

      Nobody in their right mind is hating on the USA for not being world police. It’s just White Man’s Burden in disguise. Oh dear me you’re so burdened by having to civilize the rest of the world, boohoo. Nobody asked them to, people even push back against it, and yet they do it anyway and then have the gall to complain about how much doing so is inconvenient. Then, two minutes later, the USA will complain about “sovereignty” and pretend they aren’t encroaching on sovereignty every time they pretend to be world police.

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      1 year ago

      International injustices like the US helping the Saudis genocide Yemenis? The problem is that the US is self-serving in its self-appointed role of world police. They don’t care about injustices and only use (or even create) them as excuses to carry out selfish geopolitical objectives.