• rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Guys! Guys! It’s ok! Because someone else did something similar! I am very intelligent 😎

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    1 year ago

    China is New Zealand’s main trading partner, but New Zealand is also part of the 5 Eyes spying pact with US, UK, Australia and Canada. So it walks a narrow path.

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    1 year ago

    Did they have any other countries in the running? And if so, did they cross compare measures of foreign interference between them? Just curious, want to make sure this report is as scientific as possible and fair and impartial

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        1 year ago

        Jesus Christ he’s right tho ffs

        stop playing this game governments are not our friends you all do this all the time

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        1 year ago

        Seeing the US orchestrating over 80 coups, funneling money into them, training death squads, sanctioning, weaponizing the IMF, deploying troops, dropping bombs, injecting propaganda, and more; and then going “But wait China messes with other countries too!” IS the whataboutism

        There is a clear first place worst imperialist. Second is very, very distant. Devoting this degree of energy to anything but first place and then defending first place when it comes up is imperialism apologetics.