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You declared I was "the prime example on how the tighter control on media (and social media) actually affects the populace" solely for the reason that I "list[ed] the three major US enemies". This is akin to how Trump supporters declare every criticism of Trump as "TDS", or how Israelis claim every criticism of their country is "anti-semitism". You can't shut down a conversation like that here, maybe on .ml, but not here, people are more curious, more prone to individual thought, more prone to asking questions.
Trump's word isn't gospel, his actions are too, like how he fought his own party to prevent sanctions being placed on Russia, or how they are the only country he hasn't placed tariffs on.
No, I declared you a prime example, because you were immediately using Whataboutism hinged on these three main adversaries (and none other), which only exist as a narrative because the US government declared them as such and you combined these name drops with western propaganda talking points in an attempt, and as the sole reason to comment at all, to discredit a well formulated critique of the US ... on a post about the US committing war crimes. It's like a learned behaviour.
It's getting confusing.
Russia is not "the only country he hasn't placed tariffs on", as the US actually has placed tariffs on Russia, as well as heavy sanctions. But you know, the importance of tariffs vanishes, if you can just sanction a country out of the market and into compliance, anyway? There's also almost no tariffs on the DPRK or Cuba, because they are heavily sanctioned already. Namely secondary sanctions (which are against international law), that disallow other countries to trade with the sanctioned countries.
Maybe it's me, but I find this to be theatre. But maybe you can write down your actual thinking on how the overall dynamics work here., you sound like you're heavily on the Krasnov theory.
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