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[-] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Unrelated to China, but why is the Vietnam War listed as Indecisive or unclear outcome?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

List of wars being involved in is not a list of countries being invaded and occupied, nice try though.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

honestly the map is too unserious to merit discussion

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Except that it's not. China's development has been overwhelmingly peaceful, and China has played a positive role around the globe helping many other nations develop and improve their standard of living. On the other hand, the US has been at war throughout all of its miserable existence, and is responsible for carrying out countless crimes against humanity around the globe. It remains the greatest threat to human existence today.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

See? You could have said that instead of posting falsified maps

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Yeah, apart from other areas of china (if you can call those "invasions and occupations") there's only been one time they've invaded another country and that was Vietnam in 1979.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m surprised that nobody defended the Western Allies’ takeover of former Axis empires yet. I am going to write this to prevent any attempts:

The Western Allies reused the Empire of Japan’s system of forced prostitution.

Italian anticommunists pardoned Fascists while punishing thousands of partisans; there was no equivalent to the Nuremberg Trials for the Italian Fascists; the liberal bourgeoisie refused to prosecute Fascists for their atrocities in Ethiopia; and there were continuities between Fascism & the post‐1945 Italian police.

When the Western Allies took Algeria from the Axis, they let the fascists continue running the internment camps; important elements of the Fascist era survived in postwar France.

The U.S. Army continued keeping Jews in the Axis’s concentration camps (‘We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them.’ — ~~Harry Truman, Sept. 1946~~ Earl G. Harrison, Aug. 1945); West Germany’s régime was polluted with surviving Axis personnel; fascist elements survived in West Germany.

Somebody could argue that there was no alternative to the Western Allies, but plenty of partisans were active in France, for example, and the Eastern Allies could have reached every Axis‐occupied region given enough time.

I’ll freely concede that the Western Allies were better than the Axis… but that’s not exactly saying much.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

@yogthos
well... if the map also shows where the US has acted clandestinely for its own imperialist purposes, the map gets a little redder.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Liberating the people of Tibet from a feudal theocracy, from poverty and illiteracy. The horror they must be suffering.

I don’t think many Tibetans would welcome a CIA-backed Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama coup government.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Liberating Germany from Nazi rule, the horror!

If you count the Allied victory as the invasion & occupation of Germany, you must count the liberation of Tibet as an invasion and occupation.

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