right from Putin
We Americans believe that government comes from the consent of the governed; not as a legacy of some long dead monarch. When my fellow Americans figure how eff’ed up Russians are, they’ll figure out that the only thing Russians understand is power.
You must be talking about us?
There is a reason why we treat Russia differently than the PRC.
Let’s use your BS human rights, democracy, and sovereignty arguments we always use as justifications for war.
Who do you think is FAR-FAR worse, Russia or the PRC in any one of them?
Russia doesn’t have 1 million people in internment camps, they aren’t the worlds champion in executions, nor do they have forced abortions, had a one child policy, oppress religion, questionable organ harvesting policies, they aren’t governed by a single Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and make dissidents disappear all the time...
But we would NEVER dare mess with Taiwan the way we did with Ukraine, in fact we don’t even mention the human rights abuses in the PRC if possible and we have wiped Tibet completely off the radar.
The PRC is a major hub for US manufacturing, holds onto a lot of US securities, is one of the worlds largest markets for US made products, has a lot of influence in the US via lobbying efforts and campaign contributions by their US based subsidiaries. The PRC actually has a big military, in fact they try to downplay their size and modernization. It is the PRC which is a true near peer threat, not Russia: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/China-Military-Budget-Graphic.png?x85095 Finally, the PRC has some influence on the US media and is permitted to blast their side of the story to the US audience via a laundry-list of CCP owned media (some US brand outlets they own) which is permitted free reign in the US.
So, we play very nice with the PRC, but hardball with Russia. What’s the difference?
