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The Vicious — and Deadly — Cycle of “US Diplomacy”
The West celebrates serial killer Uncle Sam as a “champion of human rights”.
Picture the United States as a murderer (it shouldn’t be difficult). Uncle Sam murders someone, the evidence is overwhelming, witnesses abound, he confesses, and it’s even caught on video. But Uncle Sam won’t be tried for murder — he’ll be celebrated as a champion of human rights and democracy instead.
This is the United States’ interventionist and murderous foreign policy M.O. transparently veiled as “US diplomacy”.
How does the US get away with it? Because the prosecution (the world) allows the defendant (the US) to conduct its own murder investigation.
US diplomacy chooses a victim, commits murder, installs its own witnesses, accuses and convicts someone else of the crime, then celebrates US interventionism and mass murder as “US diplomacy spreading democracy and human rights”.
The cycle:
US diplomacy chooses a country to be its next victim, commits mass murder through (choose one or more): invasion, war, proxy war, bombs/drones, sanctions, uprisings, coups, stoking of civil war. Next, it creates a team of witnesses including: “civil society organizations” to feign grassroots origins (yet are fully and publicly US-funded), US…
