Trump confirmed to Fox News that the US has been arming protesters to fight the regime.

“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Mate, Mao ran a genocide on his people. China’s growth has been from efficiently using its cheap labour and the government protecting its corporations from the outside world (you pretty much can’t sue a Chinese company and win as a foreigner) and the ability to throw its weight around in general.

    Corporations are still kings in China, it’s just that they have to stay loyal to the party.

    • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      it’s just that they have to stay loyal to the party Based

      Mao didnt ran any genocide, some of his actions were stupid but he didnt do it intentionally. Mao is easily top 5 humans of 20th century

      • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        An original estimate of the final death toll ranged from 15 to 40 million. According to Frank Dikötter, a chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Mao’s Great Famine, a book which details the Great Leap Forward and the consequences of the strong armed implementation of the economic reform, the total number of people who were killed in the famine which lasted from 1958 to 1962 ran upwards of 45 million. Of those who were killed in the famine, 6–8% of them were often tortured first and then prematurely killed by the government, 2% of them committed suicide and 5% of them died in Mao’s labor camps which were built to hold those who were labelled “enemies of the people”

        • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 hours ago

          Red scare propaganda, China’s population doubled under Mao

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Well I mean there’s millions that were killed deliberately and then tens of millions via stupid policies. “Oops I didn’t know people would starve” doesn’t really absolve you of mass murder.

        • Tolc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          2 days ago

          Not like he was the sole decision making figure but ok, “killed deliberately” ones mostly deserved it