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Originally Posted by AnonymousStranger
Also, wasn't it just 15 years ago that the United States unilaterally went to war with Iraq, leading to a conservative estimate of half a million Iraqi citizen deaths? This action was taken despite condemnation from the UN. I think people around the world are just sick and tired of the western world lecturing them on human rights issues when western countries have committed the majority and most brutal human rights violations in the last century.
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The logic here is that since the Iraq war was awful, we should just ignore all future human rights violations outside of the USA?
It is possible to have actual consistent morals and condemn all forms of imperialism, including actions by both China and the USA.