American foreign policy failures have inflicted untold misery worldwide for decades, while Beijing is now achieving tangible results
  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 months ago

    The best part of having a conversation with boomers about Palestine is when they bring up the idea of some international peacekeeping force. America is the party that keeps vetoeing that stuff at the UN.

      • anachronist@midwest.socialEnglish
        26·
        2 months ago

        The article is rank propaganda. Coming from a supposed middle eastern journal it’s pretty shameful that it didn’t even mention what China is doing to Muslims in Xinjiang. Besides that, China is in taking aggressive actions against many of its neighbors, not just Taiwan but also the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, etc. Plus the wolf warrior stuff against Australia, South Korea and the like. Not to mention the illegal armed fishing fleet operations in the territorial waters of smaller nations around the world.

        In comparison, the USA illegally invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, has meddled in the internal affairs of many Latin American countries, and supports Israel.

        One could certainly argue that America’s crimes are worse on the margin, but the idea that one supports a rules-based order and the other does not is laughable. Both violate international rules and laws continuously whenever it suits them and they can get away with it.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          8·
          2 months ago

          what China is doing to Muslims in Xinjiang

          Pretty telling how the narrative about Muslims in Xinjiang is coming exclusively from countries that are currently actively participating in a genocide of Muslims in Gaza. Meanwhile, not a single Muslim majority country buys this narrative.

          Besides that, China is in taking aggressive actions against many of its neighbors, not just Taiwan but also the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, etc. Plus the wolf warrior stuff against Australia, South Korea and the like. Not to mention the illegal armed fishing fleet operations in the territorial waters of smaller nations around the world.

          Really, what “aggressive” actions are those, increasing trade with these countries?

          One could certainly argue that America’s crimes are worse on the margin, but the idea that one supports a rules-based order and the other does not is laughable. Both violate international rules and laws continuously whenever it suits them and they can get away with it.

          Rules based order has nothing to do with international rules which are UN rules. It’s a bullshit narrative that burgelanders invented and don’t themselves follow. And now the whole world can see that the west is a bunch of morally bankrupt hypocrites who have no right to dictate rules to the rest of the planet.