• tankiesmasher@aussie.zone
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        2 hours ago

        The world super power and global hegemon for secular western democracy is the same as a theocratic insurgency terror org? Wow I had no idea.

        • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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          1 hour ago

          Since the inception, USA has always been imperialist and since the end of World War II, has been involved in more global conflicts than any other countries. USA merely operates on “lesser evil” framework. And up until recently, USA has been secular, but democratic? Hardly to begin with. Just ask black Americans, Native Americans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Iraqis and Latin Americans. The US ignored the UN resolutions many times, especially on not invading Iraq under false pretense of hiding weapons of mass destruction. So, USA has always been a terrorist state but in different name and face. I would go so far as to say that Trump took off the facade of the country as the shining beacon on the hill. After all, American people had been demanding for authenticity.

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        1 hour ago

        Terrorists kill innocent people to spread terror. The US would never kill innocents except for all the innocents they kill.

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          25 minutes ago

          Exactly, to spread terror. You’ve correctly identified that motive is a part of the definition. Congrats.

          The US is chiefly concerned with fighting militants for material strategic goals, and has laws against targetting civilians.

          ISIS is chiefly concerned with butchering anyone, regardless of civilian status, to gain, and maintain through fear, power in a region.