“When Beijing says that, on the one hand, that it wants peace, it wants to see an end to the conflict, but on the other hand is allowing its companies to take actions that are actually helping Putin continue the aggression, that doesn’t add up,” Blinken said at a media briefing.

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go call for a ceasefire in the Middle East while we continue to supply Israel with weapons.”

Just keep in mind, this is anonymous hearsay by someone on Blinken’s team.

And even if it’s true, they wouldn’t have leaked it to the media without some kind of agenda.

“Is destroying art worse than destroying the whole planet???”

It’s a fair question.

Everyone cares so much about protecting this painting. Why don’t they care as much about protecting the planet? (And the painting isn’t even in any real danger. It’s behind glass.)

The vandalism is practically thought-provoking performance art in itself. It’s probably one of the best pieces in the gallery.

Good for them.

They’re getting media attention for their message. That isn’t easy to do.

I want to be buried with cheese too.

The US withdrew from Vietnam in 1975. The UN recognized the PRC over the ROC in 1971.

It was only removed to kiss China’s ass

You are greatly overestimating how much influence mainland China had in 1971.

You’re misunderstanding the situation.

We’re not asking Kamala to get involved in a foreign war. We’re asking Kamala to end the US’s involvement in a foreign war.

I know it’s confusing, because Biden and Harris keep talking as if they’re doing all they can to stop the fighting. But the truth is, Biden and Harris are the ones providing the weapons.

but shouldn’t we be more worried about the terrorists on our home soil before fighting foreign lands

Probably, which is why Harris should stop giving weapons and billions of dollars of war funding to Israel.

And the worst part is: I STILL don’t know who the bad guy is. Israel? Palestine?

Again, I understand your confusion, because Biden and Harris keep talking about the need to protect Israel. But Israel is the one carrying out a genocide of innocent civilians (with US support).

uninhabited rocks in the middle of the sea

Well, part of the issue is that they technically aren’t uninhabited anymore.

The largest naturally occurring island in the area is occupied by the ROC. A grand total of four civilians live there (and 220 troops). It has an airport that occupies the entire length of the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Island

Is four people enough to claim an island? Taiwan seems to think so, and they are a vital US ally.

Also Taiwan is claiming to be China and all that because the PRC wants to keep the status quo.

Taiwan actively asserts its ownership of the South China Sea.

https://en.mofa.gov.tw/theme.aspx?n=1462&s=40&sms=294

China’s claim is the same as Italy claiming the whole Mediterranean as their own because at some point the Roman empire claimed it

The claims of both the PRC and the ROC are based on their continued and historical use of certain islands in the sea. Vietnam makes the same claim. The tribunal ruled that those islands are too small to count. (Vietnam accepted the ruling. The PRC and the ROC both rejected the ruling.)

The Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei base their claims to the sea on the concept of an Exclusive Economic Zone, which under international maritime law extends 200 nautical miles from their shores.

MBFC: Least Biased

Lol. Now I see why no one likes Media Bias Fact Check.

My examples are proxy wars where the locals retiliated with “terrorism”.

Doesn’t that describe Vietnam?

We’re achieving our goals in Ukraine right now, as we did in all my examples above.

Is your point that the US goes to war to fund the military industrial complex rather than to achieve victory? Because otherwise I’m not understanding your point.

I don’t think any of those conflicts (including Ukraine) went the way the US wanted them to.

Don’t forget Vietnam and Korea.

The US is constantly enmeshed in wars, but when was the last time Americans actually won one? 1945?

That was 79 years ago. Almost one whole Biden.

How can this story not be true? I heard about it on facebook from someone who says she heard about it from her neighbour, who heard about it from her daughter, who heard about it from a friend.

This stranger’s neighbour’s daughter’s friend saw Haitians carving up her cat with her own eyes.

Do people honestly have no ability to spot a bullshit rumor? She didn’t even claim she saw it with her own eyes, or that she knows someone who saw it with their own eyes. She literally says it was a friend of a friend of a friend.

Just to elaborate, my first thought was: “I dislike this anti-Communist Cold War-era hysteria. I’ll post something to try to counter this hysteria.”

And then I realized: Wait. People are going to think I’m “defending” Russia against accusations of being Communist, and I’m tired of people attacking me for being “pro-Russia”, so I deleted it almost immediately.

So, basically, I’ve started to self-censor my thoughts because I find the toxicity of Lemmy exhausting. Go enjoy hunting your Reds under the Bed, and I’m going to do something better with my time, like go outside.

I really wanted Lemmy to work out, but it’s clear to me that this place is as bad as Reddit, just in a different way.

I decided it wasn’t worth arguing over.

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the only hope the world has

You mean the only hope Israel has.

Hey, guess what? Accusing people of being shills doesn’t actually fix any of the Democrats’ problems.

No, but she does seem to be the president of Israel’s cheer squad.