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Sorry dawg, but I accidentally bombed your hospital and your wedding party! We cool though, right?

Napalming the Vietnamese... rice farmers on the other side of the world who couldn't hurt us if they tried... and spending so much money to do it that we had to end Bretton Woods... a "deeply tragic mistake."

Destroying Iraq, over imaginary WMDs and Bin Laden (playing xbox in Pakistan at the time)... shelling the cities with so much depleted uranium that the babies are coming out deformed... oopsie!

And I'm the one being "deeply dishonest"? Ha!

Now that we've gotten the obligatory moral scolding out of the way, who really cares what John Mearsheimer or George Kennan have to say when we have twitter?

I go to the website... "Thanks to the Global Shapers Community...," another offshoot of the World Economic Forum. The Spice must flow, I guess.

"Built by Stanford Ukranians...," foreign silver-spoons agitating for Americans to die for mommy and daddy's regime. It's an understandable move--Iranian and Iraqi expats made the same one years ago--but no thank you.




And again...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley#Murder_trial

Feel free to criticize Nixon for getting involved but the U.S. prosecutes soldiers who commit war crimes. Even in Vietnam. And when people try to cover it up, U.S. service members have the moral courage to push back.

Russia intentionally encourages, even orders, soldiers to commit war crimes. There are no prosecutions for it. There is no comparison.


This is just phariseeism. "See, we punished the guy who did the illegal killings!" -- while whistling right past all of the legal ones.




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