Yes, something about a country (the US) terrorizing the world for decades and then allegedly being slightly on the receiving end of manipulation a little bit is not the world-ending unprecedented horror that imperialists make it out to be. Usually, your perspective requires believing that the US is a fundamentally reasonable “freedom” project that has some flaws, when in reality, it was founded on genocide, built with slavery, and has not changed much on that front since.

Let me try to put it in plain analogy now: It’s not “whataboutism” to point out that a guy who allegedly got punched is a guy who has been going around punching everyone they see on a daily basis for decades. Furthermore, if the primary source of information on the claim is the guy himself saying that someone punched him, you can understand being skeptical. If you can understand that, you can understand this.