I was just looking into the US attitude towards Pol Pot. The Pol Pot regime was deposed in 1978 by Vietnam. Turns out that into the 1990s, the US continued to recognize Pol Pot as the legitimate leader of Cambodia.
Their justification for this wasn't "we love the Khmer Rouge", but it also makes no sense. They say that a regime imposed by Vietnam is not legitimate. Now, did they make the same argument for all the puppet regimes they installed: Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, etc.?
If the West had no double standards, they wouldn't have any.
It's never about what they say it's about.
I was just looking into the US attitude towards Pol Pot. The Pol Pot regime was deposed in 1978 by Vietnam. Turns out that into the 1990s, the US continued to recognize Pol Pot as the legitimate leader of Cambodia.
Their justification for this wasn't "we love the Khmer Rouge", but it also makes no sense. They say that a regime imposed by Vietnam is not legitimate. Now, did they make the same argument for all the puppet regimes they installed: Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, etc.?
If the West had no double standards, they wouldn't have any.