This is the same Blinken that actively ignored investigations into Israel blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and said everything was above board?
Yes, I know it's a separate conflict. But his actions there kinda make it hard to take much from him. These are probably valid accusations, but also: the US is providing weapons for use in Gaza.
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Wait, why are you being downvoted? Your comment is accurate.
Edit: just to cite some sources.
https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken
https://newrepublic.com/post/186305/antony-blinken-congress-israel-aid-gaza-report
Because people refuse to acknowledge that the US government is assisting a genocide. I believe that Blinken only knows China is full of shit because it's literally what the US is doing with the genocide.
My initial take was that first sentence lol then realized that context should be added. Its a complex issue that's hard to really put to a single comment.
You have a few user types:
You'll also get downvoted for calling them all out, but I'll upvote you because you are, right.
I upvoted because I agree but would also like to add that Russia is also committing genocide in Ukraine just to be fair.
Or maybe lemmy went from 200-300k to 1.5m users in a year and the biggest instance love to dunk on ml, hexbear and lemmygrad.
Lemmy has 1.5m users? No way man... Where are you getting those numbers from?
That's quite the stark contrast to https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Lol, I'm skeptical in general, but following the drama, I struggle to read these kinds of comments as something other than "Running with our tails in between our legs is dunking, if we say it enough times it'll be true!" I mean, .world literally has a Zionist bot in media bias fact checker that makes sure to ever so slightly move .world in a more fascist direction every day, .world and it's sub-instances like .ca have no legs to stand on.
Man lemmy.world is the weirdest I mean they’re pretty pro Palestine in a sense that it’s the consensus that Israel is committing genocide and is an apartheid state, but that not, I just don’t get it.
This is an example of why erosion of public confidence in democratic institutions is a critical problem. We want to be able to follow an institutional opinion on this topic, but our trust has been eroded by another topic, which makes it less trustworthy.
"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."
Don't forget the Chinese golf carts they use to send their soldiers to their death.
Fun fact: It takes a Russian soldier an average of 4.5 hours to remove all of the cellophane from one Chinese golf cart.
I mean, it's probably a good thing China is sending those. They're very easy to hit.
I really hope there is more gamesmanship going on behind the scenes at his office than 'this doesn't add up'. But I'm a little skeptical because just game this thing out:
The west claims to 100% support Ukraine yet so far have only done enough to be sure they can stay in the fight. Not enough to outright win. What do outside observers do with that info? If I was China I would absolutely see this as hesitation on the part of the west and recognize that until the west actually does go all in, this will be a source of instability that I can build on to increase my influence in the world. So of course I'm going to play both sides as much as I can get away with, at least until there's a indication that the west's stance on this is changing.
Not to mention they watched this play out over 3 years. Even without the goal of influence, they just watched the US profiteer on dated NATO surplus sold to Ukraine.
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