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    1011 months ago

    When We Do It: Peacekeeping

    When They Do It: Aggressiveness

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      11 months ago

      Indeed. Always reminds me of Chomsky’s description of how the west characterizes terms like ‘terrorism’. It’s the “heads I win, tails you lose,” version of foreign policy.

  • bob
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    211 months ago

    Should I trust the financial times on this?

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      The FT report of US stance is most likely correct, though point is that US forces are travelling thousands of miles to do shows of force near China and then accuse China of being aggressive.

      • TretiakOP
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        1211 months ago

        Reminds me of the term “defend forward” in the NSA’s lexicon. Made me laugh my ass off when I first heard it.

  • @Woofcat@lemmy.ca
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    111 months ago

    China has been doing a ton of unsafe intercepts via sea and air and I’ve been curious if this is a tactic or simply poor training on how to properly and safely execute these intercepts.