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[-] robbotlove@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago

when Russia becomes the third world nation in a proxy war.

[-] MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 year ago

Russia has been a third world nation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Politicians just like to use the Russian boogeyman to scare people who remember the Cold War. Putin may be a monster, but China is the real threat.

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 82 points 1 year ago

Just an endless slew of clickbait "China bad" headlines all the time. Really makes you wonder about if there is some sort of systemic problem with western media.

[-] Novman@feddit.it 69 points 1 year ago
[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

Be careful, saying something like that might get you called a wumao

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

If you want to see consent being manufactured, go into the Telegraph and click through to the journalist's ~~post history~~ article history

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

It's going to be hilarious in a year or so when we'll have LLM bots churning these types of articles out even at respected news outlets, and all critics of this narrative will still get smeared as being bots themselves

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[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 year ago

Whaaat? But China said they weren't doing that. China wouldn't just lie like that, would it?

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Did you check behind their back to see if their fingers were crossed?

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[-] anoncpc@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago

Yes, if you go to aliexpress, you could buy Chinese made helicopter, drones and metals. Thank you the telegraph for the basic info

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China: sends Russia six helicopters (before the war), some children's toys, a box of consumer-grade hunting scopes, and metal. They are the bad guys who are prolonging the war.

NATO: sends Ukraine weapons and military vehicles worth more than China's entire military budget, and provides training and logistics support. They are the good guys trying to end the war.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

The liberals only read the titles and then come straight to the comment sections so they don't actually realise any of this unless you spell it out for them.

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

Focusing on Chinese drones that end up in Russia while completely ignoring the Chinese drones that end up in the Ukraine is some cherry picking I expected from the Telegraph. Products and components are made in China, which shouldn't come as a surprise.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

This is referring to consumer level drones too right? Like DJI stuff?

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[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

The Telegraph is the only one reporting this, we're supposed to believe a sensationalist conservative tabloid?

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[-] jonhanson@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago

China is widely suspected of supplying Russia with equipment and materials to support their war, however no-one has adduced anything concrete to support that theory so far.

The article itself doesn't cite much in the way of sources or evidence, other than mentioning a report by Molfar, the open source intelligence agency. Molfar has published reports on the same topic in the past, but there hasn't been anything recently.

If the Telegraph had new information or evidence they would be shouting a lot louder than this. This is most likely them covering up for a quiet day by dredging up some old rumours and repackaging them as news.

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[-] Staines@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

telegraph getting upset about free markets?

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[-] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 1 year ago

Beijing issued a 12-point “peace statement” earlier this year that rehashed its position and did not propose any solutions to ending the war.

You obviously didn't read it then...

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