>All my life I've thought spyware was developed primarily by evil Russian and Chinese hackers.
You've led a very sheltered life if you think the Russians and the Chinese have been more evil than the Americans or the Israelis. I suggest reading history - a lot of it. When it comes to governments there are no good guys, only bad guys.
I’ve read a lot of history. Your last statement is kind of fair. Your first statement is not. (Does eg US imperialism make Roosevelt no better than Hitler? Of course not.)
The Russians and Chinese are doing many things worse than what the US does: Ukraine, the Uighurs.... Both are far less bound by the rule of law. Neither have any serious form of democracy.
False equivalence is a specious but dangerous form of reasoning.
The US has killed millions of people in the last 15 years alone in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and a dozen other countries that we have bombed or invaded (including the 8 we are bombing right now). I'm under no illusions about the many despicable things done by the Russians and the Chinese, but its simply absurd to contend that their behavior has any worse than the United States. We have more of our citizens locked in cages than Russia and China combined. We have toppled more governments and invaded more countries than Russia and China combined by a factor of 10 (or more) since the end of World War II. Its astounding how willfully blind people can be when it comes to their own government. We can't become the good guys until people wake up and acknowledge that there haven't been any good guys.
The US has not killed millions of people in the last 15 years that is just a blatantly false statement. A quick search on Google or Wikipedia will refute your claim instantly.
Can you provide a decent source for your millions of casualties claim or for you claim about the US toppling more Governments than Russia/China? I bet you can’t.
Judging by your username I believe you know some things about history. Why spread false info?
Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility (PRS) released a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as 2 million.
> We have toppled more governments and invaded more countries than Russia and China combined by a factor of 10 (or more)
Russia/Soviet Union is roughly on par with the US on the invasion/occupation/regime change count -- of course they did it mostly in eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the MENA region rather than in Latin America.
Roosevelt personally? No. America as a whole? Yes, comparisons can absolutely be made between America's and Hitler's genocidal philosophies, as the former influenced the latter[1].
You've led a very sheltered life if you think the Russians and the Chinese have been more evil than the Americans or the Israelis. I suggest reading history - a lot of it. When it comes to governments there are no good guys, only bad guys.