Re: We've actually been at war with Russia, China and other nations for many years now
"so we invent some human rights excuse or another and Joe Public just swallows it."
You can't really be that clueless? There is no need to invent human rights excuses. They are real. The problem is not that the West imposes sanctions in real cases of abuse but that it looks the other way, NOT imposing sanctions when it should. And that isn't government but that Joe Public demanding cheap crap at slave labor prices. Politicians then fall in line behind said public to stay in power.