NoneOfUrBusiness

No, primarily because of human rights, but also because they don't really work as marketed. As seen from this map, plenty of places with much less draconian laws are doing comparably or straight up better to the Asian countries you're talking about. The lowest drug use rates in the world are in fact in Sub Saharan Africa, followed by the Indian Peninsula and the Middle East and the rest of the Global South. East Asia isn't high by any means, but it's not low either.

Neither, the idea is that the impact of the Romans is strongly felt even millennia after their fall, so it makes no sense to expect Africa to "get over" colonialism within the span of a few decades, yet that's exactly what colonialism apologia does.

Thus approximately 15.7% of all incarcerated are in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

It seems it peaked at around 25% in 2009, but has been declining since.

I mean isn't that what nonsense is?

Not a justification for that either. "Seizing" ships is another word for piracy.

I mean, yes, but this "victory" came at the cost of two hundred thousand dead, God knows how many wounded, twenty years they could've used to develop their country and even tighter Taliban control than before the US invasion. Afghans managed to kick the US out, but they did not succeed at defending anything. If I was Venezuelan my lesson from this would be "absolutely don't get into war with the US," because such a war would leave their country in ruin just like Afghanistan.

If they do that will you protect them from the wrath of the US war machine? Exactly.

Or the middle option: She's incompetent but this is what the people guiding her want.

Clearly the meme is referring to rebellions against the interests of the country in question. So since they brought up Ireland: How supportive were the British of the Irish war of independence? What about the IRA during the Troubles? How does France react when its neocolonial empire in Africa is disrupted? Before 2023, what was your average European's image of Palestinian resistance? What's the verdict on the Houthi "rebels" again? And so on. With some exceptions, these supposed liberatory ethos are thrown out the window the moment they become inconvenient.

Don't join the army and don't be a cop, especially not in 2025. Odds are you'll be sent to beat up protesters.

Background people not smuggies, immersion broken.

Gee, I wonder if there's a formative event in the early 90s that could've had some effect on this. Maybe a decline in quality of life that would make people liable to embrace a rightwing dictator. Perhaps neoliberals could be involved? Nah, no way.