davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

Not sure, a few dozen it feels like; less than a hundred I think. We usually get a few Chinese or Russian shill/troll/bot complaints from the MSNBC-pilled.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Yemen will publicly stone & crucify 10 gay men in “gruesome public spectacles”

Thanks for the report. Enough people are pushing back in the comments that I’m of a mind to leave this post up, despite the article being a garbage consent-manufacturing one. Imperialist pinkwashing is vile.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

I only post it to share the lulz.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

Gabriel Rockhill: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

Uh… yes, we do? I mean not only about NATO, but definitely also about NATO. Even liberals like Jeffrey Sachs and radlibs like Noam Chomsky and undead ghouls like Henry Kissinger agree.

davel , 5 months ago to technology in Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season

Bell¿ngcat satellite image of an open air prison holding about 2 million people: www.google.com/maps/…/data=

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza headquarters, Israeli military says

The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now

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davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Hamas had command tunnel under U.N. Gaza headquarters, Israeli military says

yeonmi-park

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in Uyghur actress Dilraba performs traditional dance on Chunwan for the Spring Festival

Oh no the terrorists got job training, the horror.

go ahead keep going with your agitprop bullshit

Which is exactly what you are doing: going on with Five Eyes agitprop bullshit.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Uyghur actress Dilraba performs traditional dance on Chunwan for the Spring Festival

It would not be, because that never happened.

Where do you think the Xinjiang terrorist attacks magically appeared from? From the United States organizing and funding them for the purposes of destabilizing China. And once their destabilization efforts failed, where did the fable of a “Uyghur genocide” come from? From CIA cut-out NGOs like the World Uyghur Congress.

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.

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davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

They spent a long time building relationships across Europe, growing ties with the west.

Yes, they did, and they’ve finally figured out that it was a fool’s errand all along, because the US has always wanted Russia to be nothing more than a gas station. Now they’ve abandoned the .

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

Ruined their growth in international standing

They’ve ruined their standing with the imperial core, while their standing with the semi-periphery and periphery has grown.

They’ve crippled their economy and industry

Their industrial capacity has been untouched, and is in fact growing. The Ruble is doing alright, too.
Bloomberg: Russian Manufacturing Booms With Economy on War Footing

Russian industry expanded for the third straight year in 2023 as the government’s spending on its prolonged war on Ukraine helped counter the impact of sanctions imposed by the US and its allies.

Industrial production increased by 3.5% last year after 0.6% growth in 2022, according to data published Wednesday by the Federal Statistics Service. The rise in manufacturing among industries benefiting from military orders last year more than offset a slump in mining output, data show.

The figures show businesses have adapted to “the current external economic conditions,” the Economy Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday.

The scale of Russia’s transition into a war economy was underlined by the three fastest-growing categories of manufacturing — which include goods such as bombs and weapons, aircraft and rocket engines, and ships and combat vehicles. Output under categories like “metal goods,” “computers, electronics and optics,” and “other transport” jumped by as much as a third compared to 2022.

The 1.3% drop from last year in output from extraction industries, like mining, oil and gas, was largely due to a voluntary reduction in oil production, the Economy Ministry said in a separate statement. Russia, in coordination with its OPEC+ allies, pledged last year to reduce its crude production and maintain the cuts through 2024. The country stopped disclosing data on oil output last year.

The latest data offer some support for recent claims by Russian officials that the country has boosted its military production despite efforts by the Group of Seven and the European Union to break the Kremlin’s war machine through stringent sanctions including an oil price cap. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Monday that production of missiles for air defense systems had doubled, without providing figures. Previously, he said tank production had also increased by seven times.

The Kremlin plans to keep the economy on a war footing for at least the next three years, according to its budget plans, ramping up spending on arms production. That’s as Ukraine is running short of weapons to protect its cities, and vital aid from the US and the EU has been tied up by political disputes.

The war, now approaching its third year, has settled into a stalemate, making a steady supply of weapons and munitions crucial to both sides.

Russian defense plants have been put on round-the-clock production schedules, and reports abound in local media of converted shopping centers and bakeries that now also manufacture military drones. Kalashnikov Concern, Russia’s flagship arms manufacturer, has developed new types of weapons that it plans to present at the World Defense Show 2024 in Saudi Arabia next week, according to state defense-industry conglomerate Rostec.

Russia has also lined up supplies of weapons and other support from Iran and North Korea. Satellite imagery since October shows a steady flow of trade between North Korea and Russia that South Korea estimates includes more than 2 million rounds of artillery and several ballistic missiles.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in U.S. Rejects Putin’s Latest Call for Ukraine Negotiations

#BlueAnon report:

• Reporter: [REDACTED]
• Reason: Russky spy, no /s so prolly serious)

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in The Biden-Schumer Plan to Kill More Ukrainians

Maybe !world is more your speed, where they use Media Bias/Fact Check and other such nonsense that keeps them in the Atlanticist corporate news bubble.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in Check out my sick new lemmy meme

Nothing is stopping you from blocking !memes or joining !nonpolitical_memes.