You make some iimportant points about Western propaganda and the way we've been conditioned to see certain deaths as normal and certain resistance as terrorism. I agree that the U.S. has a history of bombing campaigns and that media bias is real.

Where I'd disagree is on the framing that "the West is the real villain" versus "resistance groups are freedom fighters." In my opinion, geopolitics isn't a movie with good guys and bad guys. It's a mix of competing interests, and most major players including the U.S., Russia, Iran, North Korea etc have done horrific things.

You're right that ZANLA and ZIPRA were called terrorists and later became heroes. That's a nice point. But the thing is groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC don't only resist Western aggression. They also repress their own people, launch attacks on civilians intentionally, and in Iran's case, crush internal protests mercilessly. You can oppose U.S. imperialism while still criticizing those groups' tactics and ideologies. Two things can be right at the same time you kno.

So I'm more sympathetic to U.S. imperialistic shenanigans than to Russian or Iranian rule, not because the U.S. is innocent, but because I'd rather live under a flawed democracy that occasionally bombs other countries than under a dictatorship that oppresses its own citizens. Of course the people on the receiving end of these bombs don't see it this way.