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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

Yeah the best example is probably the Japanese internment camps during WW2. You don't have 'rights', you have privileges. Rights can't be taken away.

I mean Saudi Arabia showed that American citizens lives only matter when they align with national interests years and years ago

You don't. Try not to piss off any national governments, especially unhinged ones (Russia, China, US, Israel, etc.)

Let's be real, it's the only reason he didn't run against Trump in the primary

Nuance. Trump did have that power. He did not, by any means, have power over the entirety of US policy. The fact that the Republicans had significant congressional control also gave him, but actually them, more overall power, but still not absolute by any sense of the imagination. Absolutely every country has different factions and inner workings, but in countries where there is a supreme authority, those are by and large null and void. The US does not have any one supreme authority (except money maybe lol)

I'm basically saying that we can only blame the people that had the power and that took the action in question, or, alternatively, the people with power over them.

That fails to take into account any effort by the idf to minimize child casualties, which is absolutely happening. It assumes an equal amount of adult and children civilian deaths when there is no marker whatsoever that shows that to be the case, other than the overall ratio of children to adults in Gaza. You have made a huge leap in your logic.

*uneducated idiots isolate....

Ftfy

Except that Iran isn't a democracy in practice or really by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe in the 80s, but when a country has a leader with complete and total authority, it really doesn't matter.

We blame Putin for the actions of Russia bc he has supreme authority over Russia. We cannot blame a single president for the same, as 1, they don't have supreme authority in most matters, and 2, unlike Russia the US is actually a representative democracy, whether or not you like the options available.

In essence, I disagree with the premise that this is the norm. It's not only visible from the inside. If people don't care enough to find out, that's a different problem, but in general, diplomatic officials tend to know abt this kind of stuff because it's their job to.

America doesn't have a Supreme leader dumbass

Trump ripped up the agreement***

When the two major parties have massively different diplomatic policies we have problems like this a lot.

It can also be good sometimes tho like when Jimmy Carter became president and started cracking down on the junta in Argentina and flying out victims and stuff.

This is assuming that the 2:1 ratio has come from anywhere other than original commenter's asshole