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> Today when a genocide happens somewhere on Earth the UN quickly intervenes.

No, it doesn't, and it only intervenes, at all, in fairly weak states, or where geopolitical interests of the sole superpower align with the intervention.

> The US is not some weak-ass state

Which is why a violent racist faction rising to power in the US is particularly frightening, globally as well as locally.



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