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[–] Tweak@feddit.uk -1 points 10 months ago

Ooooo go on then, I'll bite. Seeing as I'm in a safe space here, and don't have to tread on eggshells to avoid an unhinged moderator carelessly spinning Thor's banhammer.

US hegemony that’s currently committing a genocide

How is the US committing genocide right now?

Let's start with some facts - numbered, for your easy reply:

  1. The US have not been killing Palestinians. Israel have. Israel is a separate country to the US, and they do what they like. If anything, it almost seems that the US bends to Israel's will - so it should be "an Israeli hegemony". However, in reality, the US is merely an ally of Israel and simply is fulfilling its obligation to protect it from wider conflict. This is their motive, alongside a general incentive to keep international trade flowing for the US' own economic interests.
  2. The US did not cause the famine in Yemen. It was never a US blockade. The blockade was started by Saudia Arabia in 2015, the US provided assistance as an ally but then left in 2016. Saudia Arabia was always the driving force, and has been the only force since 2016. The famine in Yemen started in late 2016, after the US pulled out.
  3. The US does, of course, supply weapons to their allies. But so do all sorts of other countries - why do you single the US out, specifically? They're the biggest dog, but the other countries aren't doing it because the US is doing it, they're doing it because money.

I'm willing to wager that you're ready and willing to spin anything into being the US' fault. The reality is far more nuanced. Your hyperbole does nothing to help the situation - however it does encourage war to keep going and maybe even escalate.

The only people who will benefit from this are those that manufacture and sell weapons. Wouldn't you know it, most of those people are in the US. Your actions are serving American capitalist war mongerers.