Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoThat the world isn’t black and white, and both sides can be awful at the same time.
Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoThat the world isn’t black and white, and both sides can be awful at the same time.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Sometimes a country will inflate the appearance of problems in an enemy nation in order to stoke resentment at home and justify military action abroad.
In Iraq, we made up a bunch of lies about soldiers murderimg babies in incubators. After Vietnam, we had Cold Warriors repeating the POW/MIA lies that suggested they were holding hundreds of American hostages for decades, in order to justify continued sanctions and embargos. The slanders against Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Iran have been relentless, all while the US conducted insidious guerrilla wars that have raped, mutilated, and killed countless civilians.
At some point “Both Sides Are Bad” doesn’t cut it. You have to address your own nation’s sins - the lies, the sabotage, the assassinations and us sponsored genocides - before a rational listener can take criticism of your political rivals seriously.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
The Uyghur genocide situation has been confirmed by multiple countries, please don’t start a genocide denial debate here.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
foreignpolicy.com/…/michelle-bachelets-failed-xin…
The Western response to UN officials investigating Xinjiang and failing to find confirmation of the salacious rumors is to call her a failure.
The same criticisms hurled at UN investigators attempting to confirm these accusations today are mirrored by IAEA efforts to find nuclear weapons in Iraq. You’ve got Christian nationalists pushing far-right warmongering and fear mongering, in an attempt to curb China’s growing economic clout in the region. And it has culminated in the Trump presidency, and the full collapse of the US as a credible source of intelligence.