- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.ml
Through the use of data visualizations, the Economist makes the case that Putin is uniquely evil because Russia is pursuing the tactic of a direct military invasion in Ukraine.
Here is where the propaganda comes in. The 3rd figure they use showcases the relative imperial nature of Russia as compared to other countries conveniently leaving out the US!
Evidently, the propagandists at the Economist thought that when it came to the last 200 years it would be more relevant to include data about total territory acquired through conquest by showcasing Italy and the Ottoman empire, rather than US.
The Economist leaves out the US for the obvious reason that it looks far worse than Russia when their own arguments are applied.
Let’s take a look at just a few conquests that the US was involved in over the last 200 years that led to gain of territories (not an exhaustive list):
- The numerous wars of western expansion against a variety of indigenous societies. A few examples: (Black Hawk War (1832), Second Seminole War (1835–1842), Texas Comanche Wars (1836–1875), Cayuse War (1847–1855), Apache Wars (1849–1924), Navajo Wars (1849–1866), Puget Sound War (1855–1856), Rogue River Wars (1855–1856), Great Sioux War of 1876 (1876–1877).
- Mexican–American War (1846–1848): Lead to the conquest of most of modern day Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah.
- Spanish–American War (1898): Lead to the conquest of Cuba
- Philippine–American War (1899–1902): Lead to the conquest of the Philippines
- United States occupation of Nicaragua (1912–1933): Lead to the conquest of Nicaragua, managed under a US controlled protectorate government.
- United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934): Lead to the conquest of Haiti, controlled by US military regime.
- United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924): Lead to the conquest of the Dominican Republic, controlled by US military regime.
- Occupation of Japan and west Germany in World War II (1941–1945): It can be argued that the USA conquered these territories for a number of years after the war with near total control.
- Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan (recent history): Though a bit more fuzzy you can make a good argument that the USA conquered and had relatively near total control over these regions.
I hate how everytime you try to tell people to be wary about this, you get hit with nonsense like: ‘QUOTING PUTIN I SEE. GO TELL THAT TO THE UKRAINIANS AT THE FRONT!’ or ‘THIS IS WHAT THE FAR RIGHT WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE!’ as if nuance is a taboo or something.
And it’s the liberals and the intellectual socdems that do this the most even. You know, the people that always claim to be correct. They are brainwashed the hardest it seems.
Those people are just openly white supremacists who believe they have the monopoly on virtue and anyone opposing their society of virtuous genociders must be evil incarnate. And of course evil must be met with the civilizing force of a protracted bombing campaign against civilians. Some mistakes will be made but the moral arc of the universe bends towards their disgusting perception of enlightenment.
And if Exxon ends up with their enemies’ resources, that’s just incidental. And if their child plays with soccer balls made by other children, that’s also just incidental.
Well those people are corrupt and lack strong institutions like the whites have. It’s such a racist tautology. Unfalsifiable orthodoxy and all that. Really makes my skin crawl interacting with these losers.
Yep, that’s why I don’t debate or talk with libs or Americans in general on politics. Their logic always shifts to make them the good guys. They even find justifications for droning children so how do you have conversations with these people.
To them, nuance is a taboo if it causes them to think favorably of the people they’ve been told are their enemies. Anything that leads to an even remotely favorable view of anti-imperialists is taboo to them.
Brainwashed or denying the truth of how they have so much and everyone else so little? I mean these people always have a justification for their conflicts, which also changes by the season.