It's not a weird conspiracy though. It's just that dragging the US into protecting Israel from Iran has the effect of halting US criticism of the Gaza genocide.
I know it's realpolitik but it's still mind-blowing to me that this guy is in the middle of fighting against an aggressive occupation of Ukrainian land with elements of ethnic cleansing, and simultaneously takes every opportunity to align himself with Israel, an occupying force.
As @cyd@lemmy.world says, it's creating real dissonance outside of the West.
No nation on Earth would have reacted any differently.
I see this canard a lot, and it's simply not true.
There are plenty of nations that don't have track records of ignoring international law and committing egregious human rights abuses, including during armed conflict.
It is simply not reasonable to assume those countries would start a campaign of massive civilian slaughter.
That makes sense. When I first started researching the history of US colonization it took me ages to twig that half of it's filed under cute things like "Westward expansion".
That argument is suspiciously vlose to No True Scotsman.
Sealed indictments and secret courts are all part of the reason I would oppose anyone being extradited to the US for political crimes.
Guantanamo is a massive international human rights violation that dragged on for over a decade. It's not a country any of us should extradite non-US citizens to. Or even them, probably.
Unlike other issues related to Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza, which has claimed more than 30,000 lives and displaced more than 85% of the population amid widespread destruction, the human-made famine occurring in the Palestinian territory appears more straightforward.
While the question of civilian casualties from specific attacks and from the wider policy of bombing will need to be tested against highly contested notions in international humanitarian law such as proportionality and necessity in conflict, the war crime of starvation is simply and clearly defined.
Underpinning the allegations is the fact that as a belligerent occupying power in Gaza, Israel is legally responsible under article 55 of the fourth Geneva convention for “ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population”, which requires the occupier to “bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate”.
None of that is relevant to me. Even leaving aside the question of whether what he did was journalism or espionage, he still should not be subject to extradition to a country with a track record of punishment that amounts to torture.
Given that all large nations spy on one another it's a bit ridiculous to start extraditing each others' spies, nor does the US try to. This is probably motivated by the whistleblowing.
It's only "remarkable" if you don't know anything about the economic and political history of the region.
Anyone in their right mind would reject this thing after seeing the so-called benefits of the United Fruit Company, or the invitation of American plantations into the Kingdom of Hawaii.
In the actual real world, investment is only good if it's beneficial to the populace and doesn't undermine its sovereignty. Getting, say, the British East India Company interested in your country was a curse not a blessing, same as having these clowns interested now.
People only think "settler" is some kind of benign word if they grew up being told that colonization by settlers was somehow okay.
Settler colonialism has been brutal everywhere it was carried out. The difference here is they use modern tech - and modern media means we get way more details than in the 19th century.
The worst part is that by calling it "cutting off the clit" @SeaJ@lemm.ee is actually underselling how bad it is.
FGM in The Gambia is mostly Type II which is when they cut off the clit and the labia minora (lips). Clit chopping is at the mild end, and at the severe end they chop everything off and sew it up leaving a small hole for pee.
I hope this is being documented somehow.
Even if it takes 40 years for the perpetrators of these war crimes to be brought to justice, as in some other cases, it still should happen.