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(8,445 posts)If rioters are attacking police with lethal force and demanding the president be removed, you don't put your US-diplomat ass on a platform encrusted with oil company logos and 'express support' for what is going on outside. Not if you want to keep your country's promises and treaties in tact, and avoid looking like a complete hypocrite when US protesters are labelled terrorists and brutalized for far less.
How is that snap election going in Ukraine? Oh, the coup leaders ditched that demand once they got in power.
Imperialists (including pro-Russian ones) have accused me of being an apologist for all sorts of things. It doesn't change the fact that the US insists on dominating the affairs of people all around the world without claiming responsibility for the consequences.
Your reasoning stems from this American Exceptionalism.