Defending the most powerful is always the wrong position. Defending cops from the people. The rich from the poor. The US empire from weaker powers. White people from POC. Men from women. Israel from Palestinians. You're just helping to create a more unjust and imbalanced world.
Most people intuitively grasp this, which is why a lot of effort by the powerful goes into making the up-power party look like the down-power party. But that just proves that power knows it can make itself more powerful by getting more people to defend and side with it.
You'll see such distortion in attempts to spin the leaders of empire-targeted governments as the up-power party just because they're the dominant power within their own nation, even though they've got the might of the entire US-centralized power alliance stacked against them.
That distortion is also what you're seeing here:
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1382969768936939522?s=20
That distortion is also what you're seeing when the US plays the poor widdle victim to Russian hackers and terrorists, or when people talk about Israel as this tiny little underdog surrounded by enemies when it's armed to the teeth and backed by the entire US power alliance.
That's generally who I spend all my time arguing against: people who are defending powerful from the weak, and people who are trying to spin the powerful as weak and defenseless.
You could make the case that the US State Department exists primarily to reverse the perception of the powerful and the weak in the eyes of the international community. Read @SecBlinken's tweets and that's practically all he ever does.
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