Red herring.

You’re clearly trying to hide your Phish power level.

Your defense is “I was just minimizing this incredibly bad thing done by the second most powerful nation on earth who has the capacity to do it in ways/scales no other country does thanks to its economic might”?
Interesting line to take.

Using the fact that other countries engage in similar heinous acts as cover is wildly evil bro ain’t no other way to cash that out but good luck I guess