From Sony Thang:

If you want to understand the psychological structure of American empire, watch the reaction to a very simple sentence:

"The United States is the most violent nation in the modern world."
Not a difficult claim to document.

• By military spending.
• By foreign interventions.
• By coups supported.
• By governments overthrown.
• By wars initiated.
• By civilians killed.
• By arms exported to every conflict zone on earth.
• By the numbers, on any honest accounting, the claim is defensible.

The reaction it produces is not engagement with the numbers. The reaction is almost always emotional, personal, and immediate.

• A sense of attack.
• A sense of injustice.

"What about China? What about Russia? What about the Mongols? <What about Iran?>"

• The "what about" is not an argument. It is a symptom.

It reveals that the sentence was not processed as a political claim about military policy.
It was processed as an accusation against an identity.
And identity doesn't respond to evidence. Identity responds to threat.

Source -> https://xcancel.com/nxt888/status/2042498481743675804#m

This is my addition -> <What about Iran?>