• medem@lemmy.wtf
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    2 days ago

    Not necessarily ‘lying’, but always ‘defending their own interests’. If your country’s interests align with them, that’s little more than a nice side effect. If not, well, that’s that.

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      15 hours ago

      Wild how “defending their own interests” is considered a valid justification, when it basically means “I did it for my own benefit”.

      “By robbing a bank I’m merely defending my interest to be filthy rich - nothing wrong with that”

      • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        16 hours ago

        No they’re saying ‘they will tell the truth by accident if it happens to be rgw thing they wanted you to believe for bullshit evil reasons anyway’.

        I’m not sure I agree, but it’s not exactly a pro-imperialist position.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      “Their own interests” whose interests, exactly? Who benefitted, and who paid the costs, for the wars in the Middle East? The only people who benefitted seem to be oil companies and war profiteers, while ordinary people (including my own family) paid for it in both money and blood.

      The interests of your own country’s bourgeoisie might align sometimes with those of the American bourgeoisie, but neither align with your people or the American people.