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[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You're asking for non-Americans to observe nuance that isn't relevant to them.

As Americans who despise Trump and have spoken and voted again him for more than a decade now, we will still be collateral damage if war broke out and they dropped bombs on American cities. Some amount of our economic activity still benefits the billionaire donors keeping MAGA in power, and any economic sanctions or boycotts they might impose to hurt MAGA will still hurt us. If we get into a shooting war with them, they will not stop to check the voting history of the soldiers they encounter. That's how conflicts go.

They have no jurisdiction over you to treat you as an individual, or as anything other than an American citizen. And if they cared too much about hurting you, they couldn't do what was necessary to opposed MAGA anyway.