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Tanks against civilians? Tanks are bullet proof and if you keep the hatch shut you should be pretty safe from your average molotov cocktail thrower, otherwise tanks would not be worth anything at all on the battlefield. As long as the opponent isn't armed with RPG's it's an uneven battle.

As for the CIA sponsoring, sources please?



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Why do you present a strawman in order to then ineffectively knock it down, you could do a lot better than that.

> the Chinese protestors were injuring and killing the authorities in Beijing

Yes, please let's spare a thought for those authorities injured and killed in Beijing.

Seriously, if you want to spout propaganda get better at it soon, and if not maybe don't say anything at all?

FWIW I'm not American, and I could not care more or less about the US using their army against civilians compared to the Chinese using their army against civilians, it is all the same to me.

The facts seem to be fairly solidly on my side that in a battle between civilians and tanks the tanks tend to come out on top.

Dragging in the United States, Los Angeles and the authorities in Beijing has little of anything to do with the statement that tanks vs civilians is not a fair battle.


US army cannot be deployed on US soil.


> You mean like

The argument was that we should not respect the restraint showed by the occupants of the tanks.

So yes, exactly like those, we should not respect any restraint by the Abrams occupants either.

It's not an argument about whether this bad behavior is unique. It's about civilian vs. tank.



Please at least read what you link to.

"was a Hong Kong-based operation to help the Chinese dissidents who participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 to escape arrest by the PRC government by facilitating their departure overseas via Hong Kong."

Which has nothing to do with the quote above and even less with your statement.




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