One ship one time, versus a life-long servitude to western politics. Hardly evidence to the contrary.
It is like pardoning a mass-murderer for not killing one person who happend to be in the general area of the murder.

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The Capitalist maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein