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Old 09-21-2022, 01:29 PM   #6633
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Condemning the use of the veto in the security council while the US is the country that has made use of it by far the most. Insisting on offering aid without political interference when the US is well-known for political interference as a component of aid. Pushing for quality infrastructure development projects overseas when the US isn't good with infrastructure either at home or abroad and it's their self-identified rival that he attacks in his speech that is actually doing that work. It goes on... and with no acknowledgment of American history. So very, very American, to posture as the morally superior global leader talking down to the rest of the world when transparently working to secure hegemony and self-interest.

I hate that I have come to dislike Biden so much. The US has a party of cynical and megalomaniacal plutocrats with cult-like followers on one side and pragmatic but hawkish and self-righteous imperialists on the other.

Edit: I'll correct that Russia and the USSR's vetoes taken together are more than the US's vetoes, but the US has used the veto 82 times, far more than the UK at 29, China at 17, or France at 16.
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