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Extensive domestic economic control by security forces is also a feature of Egypt and Pakistan. America does not complain about those examples of course, because those countries bend the knee.


Those countries, like Iran, are also quite poor because the army siphons off so much of their resources.


And it seems that they did in fact need that army.


If by "bend the knee" you mean that they don't regularly chant "death to America", sure.


Half the world chants that. Currently, probably more. Americans have managed even to alienate the ass-kissing politicians from europe. Even in US, the people are protesting against the current president, and no wonder... trump wants 200 billion more while people can't afford healthcare and education and some cities look like cities from apocalypse movies, with homeless camps everywhere.

US is in 53. place in child mortality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an... )... but hey, those bombs need to be used up, so the taxpayers can pay for new ones, right?


A lot more than 1/2 the world, a lot more...


Currently lot if people dislike/distrust america. Which is understandable and rational thing to do. Chanting “deato xyz” is very irrational and unproductive and just bad.


if I was disliked and distrusted by a lot of people I’d think long and hard about why that is vs. complaining about how that dislike/distrust is communicated


Do you assume that I am American and that I was complaining about people chanting?

I am not; yet I prefer that my side stays rational without such chant’s (somebody has to be the responsible adult)


I made no such assumptions, no




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