EDIT: Correction, I was banned from Lemmy Zip, the confusion stems from my inability to see Lemmy Zip communities in the search anymore leading me to think it was Lemmy ML which has a community of the same name.
EDIT: Correction, I was banned from Lemmy Zip, the confusion stems from my inability to see Lemmy Zip communities in the search anymore leading me to think it was Lemmy ML which has a community of the same name.
Yeah, remember when the British Empire and French Empire were both non-imperialisticically colonizing Africa because both were fighting the other empire for control over the continent? You can tell because when they were gunning unarmed people down with machine guns they said they were afraid those people would be sympathetic to the other empire, which meant they were fighting the other empire.
When two empires fight using imperial domains as pawns, both are imperialistic, not neither. The US is using Israel as an imperial forward base and Iran is using Hamas as imperial auxiliaries. The US is claiming Cuba and Venezuela as imperial sphere of influence (Monroe Doctrine) and China is supplying them as imperial forward bases.
That is not to say one empire can’t be less wrong than the other in a specific conflict. The US is less bad than China in Taiwan and China is less bad than the US in Cuba. Worming your way out from under an empire often means strategically allying with another empire, and for my corner of the world I’m glad US hegemony is collapsing; Maybe the planet won’t become uninhabitable after all.
There is never, ever, any circumstance where China is less bad than the USA. They’re the top of the totem pole for greed and violence, China is an existential threat to humanity. The worst parts of the USA would be Trump and the GOP, which China endorsed and promoted with psyops such as TikTok to empower.
Thank you for being so transparent about this.