alt Hacker NewsI'm afraid I completely disagree with you and am not interested in arguing further than this.
Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Gaza, and so many others are atrocities but they are well understood by anyone with a casual understanding of 20th century geopolitics.
Anything you could list is awful but still respected the norms and rules that exist between nation states. There is not a high bar for these things, but some people within a specific flavor of the Republican party reject these rules and norms. By a quirk of history they were able to gain power. I could describe this in more technical and impressive sounding language, but "FAFO, and we are in the find-out stage" goes by many names and is accurate.
> Anything you could list is awful but still respected the norms and rules that exist between nation states.
It absolutely did not. Perhaps the elites and the mass media in the US tell this to each other, but in (most of) the rest of the world, that doesn't fly.