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davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Senior figures acknowledge privately that mobilising more men to fight is becoming challenging, with some fleeing the country or considering it.

Western media not whitewashing Nazi brigade challenge (impossible)

Before 2022 this didn’t seem to be a problem:

• The Guardian, 2014: Azov fighters are Ukraine’s greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
• The Nation, 2016: Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• Atlantic Council, 2018: Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline)
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

Other than putting words in my mouth and invoking Umberto Eco with no evidence, you seem to have nothing to say.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in USS Eisenhower and Carrier Strike Group, and Gravely are now in the Eastern Mediterranean, according to a news release from U.S. Naval Forces

Not having paid close enough attention, I have no idea if/how much Ansar Allah influenced this move.

FWIW, sometimes I put some editorializing—usually in brackets—in a post title, or else I put it in the body of the post. And sometimes I post to a comm that’s more appropriate for editorializing. I’m not a c/worldnews mod, though.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in USS Eisenhower and Carrier Strike Group, and Gravely are now in the Eastern Mediterranean, according to a news release from U.S. Naval Forces

@yogthos, I think this post title is a bridge too far. It’s a complete break from the headline’s letter and spirit.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Ansar Allah fight extracts heavy cost from Pentagon

<span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sIA </span><span style="color:#183691;">'Lemmy/0.19.3; blah blah'</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 200 
</span>

Must be something else. I’m not familiar with “px-captcha”. It seems to come up in HUMAN’s docs: duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aedocs.humansecurity.com+“px-captcha”

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in Ansar Allah fight extracts heavy cost from Pentagon

It seems thehill.com is rejecting based on User-Agent. Anyone know what User-Agent Lemmy claims to be?

<span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sI https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 403 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ curl -sIA </span><span style="color:#183691;">'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0'</span><span style="color:#323232;"> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4501958-houthi-fight-pentagon-cost/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep </span><span style="color:#183691;">'^HTTP'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">HTTP/2 200
</span>

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports

I can’t speak to why Navalny was in prison, I only know that he was a fascist who wanted to invite US capitalists back to resume their neoliberal .

• 2007: Video: Alexei Navalny Compares Muslims to Cockroaches
• BBC, 2021: Amnesty [International] strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status
• Workers World, 2024: Who was Alexei Navalny? A violent white supremacist and fascist on U.S. payroll

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in EU to probe ‘flood’ of cheap Chinese electric vehicles, sparking trade war fears

Okay. Shall we disregard the NYT and other Council on Foreign Relations-aligned media outlets as well then?

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports

Yes we just love us some dictators uwu 🙄 Copypasta from a previous conversation:

Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?

In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.

Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.

• Robert Parry, 2015: The Mess that Nuland Made
• Jeffery Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

davel , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

USAID isn’t lazy, it’s a constituent part of US imperialism. Samantha Power is a war criminal. Three women, loads of lies and the destruction of Libya

Mapping U.S. Imperialism

U.S. imperialism has also been built through “soft power” organizations like USAID, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Organization of American States (OAS). These nominally international bodies are practically unilateral in their subservience to the interests of the U.S. state and U.S. corporations. In the 1950s and ‘60s, USAID (and its precursor organizations) made “development aid” to Asian, African, and South American countries conditional on those countries’ legal formalization of capitalist property relations, and reorganization of their economies around homeownership debt. The goal was to enclose Indigenous land, and land shared through alternate economic systems, as a method of “combatting Communism with homeownership” and creating dependency and buy-in to U.S. capitalist hegemony (Nancy Kwak, A World of Homeowners). In order to retain access to desperately needed streams of resources (e.g. IMF “loans”), Global South governments are forced to accept resource-extraction by the U.S., while at the same time denying their own people popularly supported policies such as land reform, economic diversification, and food sovereignty. It is also important to note that Global South nations have never received reparations or compensation for the resources that have been stolen from them–this makes the idea of “loans” by global monetary institutions even more outrageous.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

What in the 50 Cent Party kinda post is this?

I elaborated elsewhere in this post: lemmy.ml/comment/10617237

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

Yes, all this bullshit again: lemmy.ml/comment/10617237

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

The dept trap diplomacy narrative is neocolonial* projection from the imperial core states.

*Even Wikipedia’s entry on neocolonialism projects it onto China, because Wikipedia is full of imperial core propaganda.

davel , 3 months ago to worldnews in The US loses to Russia and China in popularity across Africa

The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and when those efforts failed it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just last week.

• The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified
• The Uyghur Human Rights Project is a product of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the American government’s main regime change NGO.
• Uyghur genocide allegations
• American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
• US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
• The blueprint of regime change operations

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.