• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    This is, at best, misleading. Out of the two highest spending superpowers, choosing a random $100b doesn’t show shit. Why couldn’t you make a good point for taking care of people without playing the “my preferred violent superpower is better than your preferred violent superpower” game? Neither state is working for the betterment of its people over its own interests.

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      Do not pass go, do not collect $200

      How many wars has China gotten into since the end of its civil war? How many places has the US invaded since then?

      Opinions formed from reading reddit posts will not work here.

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        A few honestly, the Korean War, Sino-Soviet border clashes, the invasion of Vietnam, troops in Cambodia to help them fight Vietnam, the first and second Taiwanese Strait Crisis, the invasion of Tibet, the Sino-Indian War, and technically as a part of the UN Security council they have troops fighting in Mali against ISIS currently.

        But I understand the point you are making and I’m not trying to discredit it, just wanted to give some context.

        Those conflicts are also nothing compared to the terror the US has committed.

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          I guess a better question would be “how many civilians has China killed in warfare compared to the US since the 1940s”

          We would be talking tens of thousands versus tens of millions

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            Absolutely, the terror of the United States far outstrips whatever the Chinese have done.

            But to simply act like China hasn’t been in a war since its Civil War seems disingenuous.

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              But so is praising china, seemingly just to take a dig at the US. CIRITICIZE BOTH. They’re both brutal power-hungry states. They can both be wrong.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      This isn’t misleading in any way. We can look at a bigger context here and it only gets worse. US has been continuously at war for 225 years out of 243 years of its deplorable existence, and US military budget is bigger than next 10 countries combined.

      Meanwhile, China hasn’t been at war since the 70s, and it continuously invests in helping countries in the Global South develop their infrastructure developing win-win relationships. China has lifted over 800 million people out of poverty, and the standard of living in China improves with each and every decade.

      One has to be an utter ignoramus to think that China isn’t working for the betterment of its people. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself, but you’re too ignorant to realize it.