I guess I’m an orientalist now

I have family in adjacent, politically similar countries

I got my answer, thank you very much.

Naturally? God forbid a country considers the welfare of its workers.

The rule of law isn’t an exclusively Western concept. But since you’re speaking so confidently you must be an expert in the Chinese legal system.

This is tantamount to victim blaming and only serves (regardless of intentionss) to justify settler colonialism. Anticolonial resistance is what has been keeping the south of Lebanon safe from occupation, unlike the Syrian Golan Heights. I recommend you read about Israel’s puppet state in southern Lebanon back in the eighties.

Not even that. They evacuated their posts a week before the Israeli invasion and left the villagers to defend themselves on their own.