• Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The US has already labelled the communist groups there as 'terrorist organizations.' It's absolute fucking bullshit though like all the other orgs on that list, especially coming from the largest state sponsor of terror in the world

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        The Philippines have been directly under US control since the McKinley Administration, with a brief interlude during the Japanese occupation.

        China "supports" Duterte in the same way Trump "supports" North Korea. Which is to say they're not propping up a Juan Guaido fake replacement President.

        This is entirely an American policy creation. President Xi will not Mean Girls Duterte out of power and it's foolish to equate them meeting as him somehow propping Duterte up.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Even normal-ass Americans will justify the US killing millions and millions of people in Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, et al because we had to "stop communism".