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Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
(www.reuters.com)
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I don't care if they are considered our enemies; that's fucked up. Our government's grievances are of their government. Not the people. Not the culture. Not the land itself. Doing shit that harms the average person is incredibly vile.
It's fucked up when we do it, it's fucked up when Russia does it, it's fucked up when China does it. This is terrible.
Worse, this was targeted in part against the people of the Philippines, an ally.
Have you noticed how all those nukes the US government maintains don't target governments but population centres instead? The mass-slaughter of civilians have always been the US way - this time, they just did it with misinformation.
Why would you think I am okay with nukes?
Didn't say you were... that's not the point. The point is that the US has always treated civilian populations as perfectly expendable - to be kind of honest, I'm not even sure they don't see the US population in the same way, either.
They don't target population centers, they target military bases that always happen to be near a population center. In the 50's and 60's missile targetting was shit so they had megaton yield bombs to make sure they got the bases. Nowadays they have lower yield bombs so they can have more bombs that specifically target bases.
It's no use targeting population centers as those bombs could be used instead to cripple them militarily. It's just that no country would have a good day if nukes went off anywhere near them.
That's exactly the excuse they used to justify every aerially-delivered atrocity from Hamburg to Hanoi. Britain was routinely doing it in the middle-east nearly a decade before the Nazis did it at Guernica.
If you don't want to believe me, you can believe Curtiss Le May himself.
The mass-slaughter of civilians was the point then, it's the point now - the nuclear ballistic missile is simply the logical conclusion to this. It literally allows for mass-murder at the push of a button.
You need to stop confusing the propaganda with the actual reasons.