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JeffFromSchool t1_jbomiat wrote

Reply to comment by a_canadian_abroad in Former Canadian Olympians call to block Russians from Games. by PrincessBananas85

Many countries did, but many countries didn't.

While we haven't always had everyone's backing, we've always had someone's backing. The US's foreign policy history is certainly checkered, but every single country can find themselves somewhere in one of the black squares, too. Some, many more than one square. That's my point.

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a_canadian_abroad t1_jbolwa1 wrote

Reply to comment by JeffFromSchool in Former Canadian Olympians call to block Russians from Games. by PrincessBananas85

I’m not opposed to many of The United States’ interventions abroad but your statement is not nuanced at all. Many countries opposed the invasion of Iraq, the Vietnam War and the numerous coups and proxy wars in Latin America (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, etc.)

American foreign policy has a checkered past and any attempt to characterize it as all good or all bad is a gross oversimplification. As is saying there was universal support for any one of their military actions since 1945.

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middleagedstudent t1_jboi06m wrote

Reply to Former Canadian Olympians call to block Russians from Games. by PrincessBananas85

I'm all for it if we block Americans and Chinese too.

There's a reason the Pentagon isn't helping with the war crimes stuff the Biden admin is trying to speak of.

They do the same shit elsehere. What you see in Ukraine is what the west did in so many places. Iraq, Libya and what not.

They just use the media better 😂😂. Hypocrisy at its finest.

It'll ebemtualym catch up as we see how divided countries is becoming. Just like Rome or other empires, everybody falls eventually.

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