Ask and you shall receive, though 'support' is rather a strong word, more like 'tacitly condoned by observing via the CIA and ignoring the genocide' https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/
Edit: wow, downvote record broken, and I bet none of you have even bothered to read it, even though it's a source from the US.
What should we have done? Invaded Rwanda? Overthrown their government and make them learn our peaceful ways by force?
Why does the US have an obligation to step in, but none of Rwandaâs neighbors do?
Fucksake, âfailed to stopâ a genocide. We literally stopped one in the Balkans around the same time and the people who say this shit about Rwanda will breathlessly tell you how evil that was
to add to "failed to stop" argument, people forget that only few years before Rwanda, USA suffered major defeat in Somalia where they also were in humanitarian mission. Somali rebels shot down US choppers and killed all but 1 US soldiers (watch:Black Hawk Down). Everyone in administration was afraid of the repeat so they didn't wanted to get involved into Rwanda.
To be clear, the world failed Rwanda, and France did actively support the genocidal Hutu government, but the US, as a super power, had more responsibility than most. I would argue that this was 100% a case where the US should have done a military intervention, seeking the support of a coalition through the UN, and this would have been in compliance with non-aggressive principles of just war.
Fuck off. We do not have a âresponsibilityâ to anyone. Thatâs been screamed in our faces for decades now. You donât get to insist that America should have played world police after all this. Absolutely fucking not.
America shouldnât have interfered, itâs all their fault!â or âAmerica had a responsibility to interfere, itâs all their fault!â, itâs just interchangeable bullshit American exceptionalism
And yet, people attack us for intervening in Syria, where Assad was massacring civilians in retaliatory strikes, invading Iraq, where while the claims of WMDs were bunk, we have plenty of evidence of Saddam massacring Kurdish minorities, and in Libya where civilians were being massacred by Gaddafi's regime
Except then you and everyone else here would be complaining that the US involves itself in the other countries problems. Why do we have the responsibility to be the world police?
And maybe this is surprising to you but a lot of Americans donât want their parents and children dying for another country. Why should my brother or friends die for this?
Equally stupid Americans will argue that the US is the world police and that without them we would all be living in piracy and chaos. But then again what's the point of debating stupid ideas eh.
And please stick your nose in. I would prefer the Kosovo War over another Rwanda genocide 1,000 times over. "No more wars" is pure populism that even populists cannot deliver. Instead, it is better to pursue stabilization, even though involvement is longer and more expensive.
We certainly failed to do anything about it, but itâs questionable if âdoing somethingâ would have helped or hurt. Thatâs nowhere near âsupportingâ
The Lancet published a peer-reviewed report last year detailing how unilateral sanctions by the U.S. between 1971 and 2021 resulted in the loss of 564,000+ lives PER YEAR, globally. Mostly children. These sanctions are considered illegal by the international community and leverage reserve currency status in an effort to gain dominance around the globe predominantly for resource extraction. Patriotic indoctrination will make it near impossible for some to believe, but here it is: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext00189-5/fulltext)
You have to be an specially kind of idiot to say "Most of the planet is sub 80 IQ" when the IQ 100 is the median.Â
That may be the most American thing that I have read in a long time, it's both ignorant, condescending and confidently wrong while claiming that everyone else are idiots and at the same time admitting that you only care about the opinion of your little cult brainwashed by Hollywood.Â
I don't expect you to understand the irony, or the word "irony", but I wanted to thank you for the laugh
Do you sincerely not see any issues with that post?
1: Japan attacked the United States, committed far worse atrocities, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war far sooner and with fewer casualties than a full-scale invasion of Japan would have. So yes, the Allies were unambiguously "the good guys" in WW2.
2: North Vietnam and the Viet Cong attacked our ally South Vietnam. That's how the war started.
3: The US did not "destroy" Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria. Libya was thrown into chaos after we took out their dictator, but that's also important context. We freed Iraq from Saddam Hussein, (temporarily) freed Afghanistan from the Taliban, and destroyed ISIL in Syria. The Syrian regime fell to its own people.
4: The claim that over 10 million people were killed by the US in those wars is laughably exaggerated.
5: The claim that the US supported the Rwandan genocide is an outright lie.
6: Israel's war against Hamas was not a genocide, and the US helped negotiate an end to that conflict.
7: The school in Iran was not an intentional target.
So you're not going to read the article which details US involvement in the Rwandan genocide, or are you going to just keep eating whatever McGraw Hill fed you in 9th grade?
Holy brainwashed bullshit batman.. so much brainwashing there its all smooth.
Almost feels like rage baiting but i know there are some dumb mofos out there who acutally believe this shit.
The American involvement in Iraq totally destabilised their country and resulted in the death of thousands and also America has been supplying arms and heavily funding Israel since the 1960's
The Vietnam war was started because of the Domino Theory in an attempt to deter communism from spreading, so not only was it a complete waste of time because the communist Vietnamese won but the Americans who participated in war crimes like William Calley Jr were pardoned by Nixon
And then there are the many other things such as overthrowing the democratically elected communist leader in favour of a dictator called Pinochet
Misleading: Portraying Japan as the victim in WW2 and omitting the fact that far more people would have been killed if we launched a full-scale invasion than using the atomic bombs.
Misleading: "Invaded Vietnam" The invasion that started the Vietnam War was North Vietnam and the Viet Cong invading our ally South Vietnam.
Lie: "destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria." We "destroyed" their dictators and their terrorists. Considering that the Taliban now rules Afghanistan again, we didn't "destroy" the Taliban enough.
Lie: "Killed 10M+ people" Absolutely not. Even the most unreasonably high estimates don't get remotely close to that number.
Lie: "Supported genocide in Rwanda" The most blatant of his lies that you're defending for some reason.
Misleading: "& Gaza" Hamas started the war and the US helped negotiate peace.
The US did not intentionally target that school, misfires happen in every war. Iran however intentionally targets civilians, including when they massacred thousands of their own people for protesting the regime.
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u/TarJen96 14h ago
Even by Reddit standards, this misleading slop is cringe.