wurzelgummidge @ wurzelgummidge @lemmy.ml

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US popularity worldwide went through the floor thanks to Genocide Joe's repugnant attitude towards the Palestinians. All Trump did was add go fast stripes.

https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3309917/western-world-has-already-dug-its-own-grave-gaza-war?module=top_story&pgtype=section

It’s a bleak statement issued by The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and states must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an outcome with irreversible consequences for our shared humanity and multilateral order.”

The warning came from a team of UN experts.

“While states debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity,” the UN experts said.

“No one is spared – not the children, persons with disabilities, nursing mothers, journalists, health professionals, aid workers, or hostages. Since breaking the ceasefire, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians, many daily – peaking on 18 March 2025 with 600 casualties in 24 hours, 400 of whom were children.”

Calling Israel’s actions “one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity”, UN officials said the aggression had transformed Gaza into a landscape of desolation, where nearly half of the casualties were children.

Some 52,535 have died, 70 per cent of them women and children, and 118,490-plus injuries as of last week.

But that’s OK because “Israel has the right to defend itself”. Those seven words have been the proverbial hill Western leaders – from Washington and London to Berlin and Brussels – are ready to die on.

Except it won’t be just them, but the very humanity of the society they represent and supposedly lead.

Now we truly know the Western-dominated world order has ended. But you won’t be able to blame Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for it. I am sure they are happy to see it gone and may even fancy themselves at having a hand in it. Well, maybe a little bit. But they can’t do it if the West hasn’t committed the most extreme moral self harm, and ignore those very things that keep it alive, that is, as they say, things like Western-inspired universal values such as human rights, international law, and the law of war when it comes to Israel.

The most extraordinary censorship is being exercised across many Western countries, but especially in the United States and Germany, to silence anyone who tries to speak out what everyone already knows is going on in Palestine. It is no accident that the two countries that make the most of the Holocaust as universal civic education are the two countries that most actively enable a real-time genocide being committed and shown live on our computer screens and social media pages.

Silencing the victims’ cries so the killers can continue with the butchery, and criticism is considered racial hate speech against the killers and their apologists. Who does that?

The West cares more about the feelings of the butchers than the lives and limbs of victims. Western “civilisation” now sounds like a contradiction in terms.

Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov asked whether you would let a single child suffer the most horrible torture and death so that the whole of humanity will be free of suffering forever more.

What a naive idealist Ivan was! The real question is how many children we will allow to die the most painful and horrific death before the people who claim to be enlightened and free will collectively speak out and say – “Enough is enough! Enough blood!”

Those were the words of the late Yitzhak Rabin at the signing of the Oslo Agreement.

Having surveyed the whole of history up to his time, Arnold Toynbee concluded that great civilisations died by suicide, rather than murder.

The West has just proved his point. It will of course always exist as a geographic reference. But it’s just places on the map now, not an inspiring idea.

As an ideal, it has died by its own hand with the horrifying screams and dying breaths of tens of thousands of children in Gaza.

The world isn't silent, it has been condemned worldwide. The UN has called for ceasefires, the ICC has issued arrest warrants and people are demonstrating all over the world. Just because western media doesn't cover it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

But there is little we can do short of going to war with the evil empire and its 800+ military bases scattered across the globe. All we can do is watch in horror and learn from it. Learn that it is not China, Russia, Iran or anywhere else you have been trained to dislike, that seeks to dominate the world and its resources. It is the collected gobshites that run the United States of America that are the planet's biggest, most ruthless and most violent terrorists.

The event wad hosted by NUFDI, the main DC-based advocacy group fascists

Fixed it

speaking on condition of anonymity

Xi will use the Victory Day celebrations to remind the world of Beijing’s claimed sovereignty over Taiwan, against which it has threatened to use force.

And the Financial Times will use the opportunity to remind the world that it is a shitty propaganda outlet by failing to acknowledge that Taiwan's own constitution says it is an inalienable part of China, and that Beijing has stated, many times, that it will only use force if Taiwan rewrites it's constitution to claim otherwise. Further more the article's author knows this.

That is not a new plan, that has always been the plan.

Arguing about who said what at this stage is pointless. Did Biden halt arms sales, or did he double down on sending them? If you are trying to stop a genocide you don't send thousands of tons of weapons to a genocidal maniac

What manufactured goods does America even make that are not for military purpose? I'm sure there must be something.

The US foreign policy goal for the last thirty odd years has been to maintain its position of sole superpower status. This means ensuring that no other state should accumulate enough economic and strategic weight to rival it.

So let's remember, this is not just about Trump, he is just a big mouth on the front end of it. Every president before him was just as toxic, they just lied more convincingly.

But although the US has overwhelming military dominance – as we know from the Vietnam war, it doesn’t mean they would win any conflict, and its recent track record is pretty much all failure.

Assuming the aim was to win the wars rather than just destabilising/destroying the country they were fighting against.

How will he ever survive?

I don't think they are reliant on US trade anyway.

Of course they would rather trade than not trade, and losing the market would hurt, but only about 15% of China's exports go to the US.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3308749/china-considering-start-trade-negotiations-us-commerce-ministry-says

as freedoms dwindle

More like, as US funding dwindles.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday accused

Can anyone provide a trustworthy source?

Also, it is fine for the US to enable genocide, to slaughter thousands of innocent children, but wrong for anyone to try and stop it? The US government, both sides of it, is just fucking vile.

although Malaysia claims parts of the South China Sea over which Beijing has staked out near-blanket sovereignty.

Interestingly, Taiwan also claims the same "near-blanket sovereignty" over the South China Sea but western media never bothers to mention that

a war with each other that neither actually wants

When have you ever known the US to not want war?

What are tankies?

drive engagement with ragebait

That, and fear, is the goal of the entire western media industrial complex