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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By that standard the only countries not monstrous are those too feeble to ally with.

Plenty of countries on all continents have sided with oppressive regimes, and conveniently ignored atrocities as long as they're aimed at someone else. In anything from the Korea or Pakistani wars, to genocides in Central America, to slave trading within the African continent.

The West is due some criticism, but this approach is useless.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

America itself has been an oppressive regime. Britain and France were both oppressive regimes not too far in the past (and still to some degree today).

Why are people surprised that oppressive regimes ally themselves with other oppressive regimes? Geopolitics isn't a story of "good" and "bad," it's a story of rational self-interest.