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"we say that our values (as imperfect in their application as they might be) are worth more than money"

The US keeps selling weapons to the Saudi Arabia that uses them to wage a war of aggression in Yemen, that has brazenly murdered a journalist working for an American newspaper, that executes opposition figures based on fake charges of terrorism, that treats women and gays as inferior.

What sort of values are you talking about?

It's not an 'imperfect application' of the values that American propaganda attributes to America, it's exactly the opposite of them.




You're entitled to your opinion, and free to state it, and that's exactly one of the values our constitution enshrines.

The others can be found here:

https://constitutionus.com/

for the philosophical underpinnings read this:

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/

If you live in the US and don't like what's going on right now, I suggest you register to vote and help others do the same. For all the evident problems laid bare by the current administration, it's completely within the people's power to build a more perfect union.


The US has been selling weapons to Saudi Arabia for many decades. Free speech, philosophical underpinnings and voting haven't changed that.

From outside it looks like 'do as I say not as I do'.

I live in Russia and we had a constitution saying all the good things in the Stalin's time and we have even better one now.


if you don't like the US selling weapons to the Saudis then I suggest you politely ask your government to stop interfering in our elections.

I guarantee results in about 14 months.


I don't like your country's hypocrisy.

It didn't start with Trump and I have no reason to think it will end with Trump.

As for Saudi Arabia, I have little doubts Russia will gladly sell them any weapon they want provided it is for sale at all.




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