Probably just paying them to stay on message about Ukraine and stop rambling about random culture war issues like alleged elementary school litter boxes.

This is not chemical warfare…

The only one committing chemical warfare in Ukraine right now is Russia. You probably wouldn’t know about that though.

than 50% of the US realizes there’s still an embargo.

Oh trust me, enough of the Republican base still remembers it enough to screech any time there’s any talk of ending it.

Nice misinformation Vatnik.

More weapons than money, but yes that’s what you have to do when your country is being invaded and you don’t have the industrial base to suddenly build an army from nowhere.

Yes, the man who has been leading his country in a war for survival and winning is the real clown! /s

Ignorant American here, are any of the parties in Brazil trying to defend Maduro? I was very surprised to see even Lula take a stand against him.

It’s like the inverse of American exceptionalism,

Yes that’s definitely it. It’s people who have heard the stupid overly-patriotic American exceptionalism “America can do no wrong”, they know it’s obviously not true and so they switch to the reverse position of “America does all wrong” like it’s somehow more true.

During times of war it legally is.

If we only want to overthrow leftists because of economic resources.

Then why has the Biden administration kept good relations with the socialist president of Chile, one of the world’s largest producers of cobalt, instead of overthrowing him like we did with Allende?

Why did Biden save Brazil, an oil producing nation, and it’s socialist president from a fascist coup?

It’s not even a leftist thing, the U.S. opposes right-wing power grabs and coups abroad as well, and has for at least two decades.

Plenty of revolutions have happened, before, during, and after the Cold War without U.S. support, the U.S. actively opposed the breakup of the Soviet Union for example, and yet it happened, and several democracies were created from it’s downfall, with little influence from the U.S.

dictators without the U.S. funding them FTFY

Even if the U.S. government did regularly fund protests/resistance against dictatorships, why would that be a bad thing? As long as it’s not singlehandedly deciding on regime change like in Iraq, I don’t see anything morally wrong with supporting pro-democracy causes within dictatorships.

You may be joking, but that’s pretty much the attitude of the Ukrainian Intelligence Services at the moment, there’s no point in sending well trained operatives into a meat grinder on the eastern front, much more efficient to just let them go around the world hunting the Russian Intelligence Services

"HUR Chief Kyrylo Budanov vowed to “destroy Russian war criminals anywhere in the world, wherever they are.”

Yes, because no population on this planet ever acts against their dictators without the U.S. forcing them to do so.

Dude, do you think I’m criticising the American people?

shit-tier, racist, colonialist, genocide supporting, white-supremacist hellhole. Have fun with dealing with the tide of fascism.

Idk this definitely doesn’t feel like the attitude of someone who wants best for the American people, maybe you as a European, the continent that created fascism and experienced it more than anyone would know otherwise though. /s

Vote all you want, but it’ll never make the United States a good country. The US will always be a colonialist power controlled by the rich until you remove those rich bastards from power.

Unless you’re advocating for the violent overthrow of the American government, something that would be almost impossible, would involve the first civil war in a nuclear nation ever and would inevitably wreak havoc on the world, and is certainly unwarranted under our current administration. Then voting is literally the only way to change our government, and it’s perfectly possible, the Democratic and Republican parties have changed massively due to the will of the people. The Republican Elite did not want Trump, the base did, and the Democratic Elite can’t stop Bernie’s popularity or more people like him getting into local office, state offices, and their influence can be beat in congressional primaries easily, if you want the U.S. to change in a radically left ward direction, violence will get you nothing but arrested, voting (and organizing) will bring change gradually.

The US is a nation of big talk going nowhere. Biden talking about how much he wants to end subsidies but it doesn’t fucking happen.

So you blame the entire nation for the actions of a few fascists in Congress who are still addicted to their oil? Maybe tell us to elect more Democrats who will end subsidies, instead of blaming the ones trying to fix it.

Literally the only article you linked which seems like something happened was US finding for housing in Africa which sounds nice and all, but y’all continue to exploit Africa way fucking more than you contribute.

Is how I know you didn’t read much other than the headlines from those articles, or are you saying that millions of dollars to build housing for refugees in Armenia is nothing? Are you saying the money given to rebuild Ukraine was nothing? Are you saying the houses built and diseases eradicated in Africa were nothing? Are you saying the condemnation of genocide in Myanmar, Xinjiang, and Bosnia and the actions taken against those regimes was nothing? I would generally agree U.S. corporations tend to exploit the global south (along with corporations from China, Russia, and any rich nation), but that in no way negates the actions by the U.S. government to alleviate suffering in the global south, the most powerful country in the world isn’t a monolith.

I’m sorry you can’t abide criticism of your shit-tier, racist, colonialist, genocide supporting, white-supremacist hellhole. Have fun with dealing with the tide of fascism.

Is definitely the attitude that fellow humans should have with each other towards the global rise of fascists. /s

If I was so unreasonable it would be easy to inundate me

Here’s the U.S. investing to create affordable housing in regions across the world.

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Here’s the U.S. taking a stand against a genocide.

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Here’s the U.S. trying to end fossil fuel subsidies.

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I notice you’re criticising my reasoning rather than providing an example of a good thing the US has done

Because you started with the precondition that any answer had to be one you had heard of, which is preposterous, how are we supposed to know what you’ve heard of? From the fact that all of the rhetorical questions you asked could’ve been answered with a Google search, it seems you’ve only ever heard of or paid attention to the U.S. doing bad things, which makes finding a good example that you’ve heard of a non-starter.

They’re saying that your coworker didn’t read enough communist propaganda books to forget about the oppression they faced and learned to love Maduro regardless.

I believe I already gave you an example? I explained the source the example was from, and gave a link that got past the paywall.

https://archive.ph/rOXvz

There’s the non-paywalled link again, I guess.

I get my news from pretty diverse sources, so it shouldn’t be that hard

Diversity of sources almost doesn’t matter, quality does, you could watch a hundred different Trumpist YT channels, Fox, and OAN, and you’re not going to know basically anything factual because all of those sources are trash. The same could easily be said for questionable left wing sources too.

also never even heard of that organisation

It’s one of the most reputable foreign policy publications in the U.S, founded to give an academic counterweight to government statements during the Vietnam War.

It’s also pay-walled, so I couldn’t even read it if I wanted to.

It’s not hard to get past paywalls: https://archive.ph/rOXvz