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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Am I dumb for reading the headline and thinking that their point is that the US didn't get embroiled in similar conflicts elsewhere was because the PRC has a stronger presence pretty much anywhere else in the world except the middle east, where they have been less hands-on.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah I've been reading it as "China has to come and tell us to stop!!" rather than "China isn't carrying their own weight defending isntreal"

(if I don't steal it someone else will type beat)

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Where is the :mental-gymnastics: emote, I need it so bad.

[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 45 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Meanwhile if China actually was defending Iran:

It is precisely China's military presence in the greater Middle East that has lured the United States into war...

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 10 points 7 hours ago

Unorthodoxical Falsifizey

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 31 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Literally just "Why we instigated a war with Iran and it's all China's fault"

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 25 points 10 hours ago

why didn't you hold us back bro

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 30 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

is this another China Fellow at the kkkraka institute

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago

Dingle Bingle Luftwaffeborg

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 34 points 11 hours ago

settler If China won't take it then I guess we simply have to!