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"You come from America, and support in one way or another those that are looking for more pay, better housing, greater equality in a country that maybe at odds with our agenda, but I am not my country."

I'm not sure what you mean by that, can you rewrite it another way?

Who is "our" for example?

What do you mean you "are not your country?"

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Fran's avatar

Oh, I get it now, so if Iran has protests we use it as justification for attacking it's government and it's leadership, a country we would love to topple, in other words by leftist lending support we are without knowing adding to US propaganda. Good point. Since I was a kid I separated my government from the people, and no doubt do the same in regard to other countries. I had an uncle who was a chief engineer in the Merchant Marines, and there wasn't a country he hadn't been to. He had a global perspective on the world which I thought was great. No governments just people which is what I was thinking here. Thanks!

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Merfy Mac's avatar

You’ve said it perfectly.

Imperialist governments EXPLOIT the public support by good-hearted people in an empire country for people protesting in an empire-targeted country, to amplify and broaden their “hybrid” attack on the foreign govt.

The end result of a foreign government overthrown by an imperial power is pain, plunder and peonage for its people. Not liberation. Not security. Not a better future for the people.

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37's avatar

Yes

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