The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.
Does this threaten “international security”, liberal?
Oh no, I agree, it was definitely aimed at the Chinese vaccine at first, but then it turned broadly anti-vax because Trump is too incompetent to keep private things private.
Imperialism is when a country (or any political group, I guess) pushes their worldview onto others. That’s without looking anything up so I may have forgotten some aspect.
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Okay, I looked it up. I agree with the definition I found that says it’s more about exerting power than just “worldview”. That seems like a better definition.
This thread is going towards the conclusion that you’ve adopted a definition of imperialism that is so broad as to be unworkable, because it treats all political violence as being the same thing.
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
Does this threaten “international security”, liberal?
The anti-vax campaign wasn’t all that clandestine, though. It might have initially been, but Trump sure let the cat out of the bag with his nonsense.
So what is a clandestine propaganda campaign if not this kind of shit:
Oh no, I agree, it was definitely aimed at the Chinese vaccine at first, but then it turned broadly anti-vax because Trump is too incompetent to keep private things private.
Okay. So you see what I’m saying then. Imperialists do this stuff.
Except what you have linked was already US State department propaganda
Could you please define imperialism in anywhere between 20 and 1000 words?
Imperialism is when a country (or any political group, I guess) pushes their worldview onto others. That’s without looking anything up so I may have forgotten some aspect.
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Okay, I looked it up. I agree with the definition I found that says it’s more about exerting power than just “worldview”. That seems like a better definition.
? imperialism is when a country or group exerts power?
Yes? I don’t know where this thread is going.
This thread is going towards the conclusion that you’ve adopted a definition of imperialism that is so broad as to be unworkable, because it treats all political violence as being the same thing.
Okay. I don’t know what else to say.
You should probably backpedal on this before you start framing Israel-Palestine as an interimperialist war
No need to say anything, you just need to read books.
What a bizarre definition. Apparently any activist group is an empire.