wurzelgummidge @ wurzelgummidge @lemmy.world

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The only reason you are this angry is because you know I'm right. But I guess it must get tiresome having American thrown in your face everyday. Never mind, eh? Chin up and straighten your MAGA hat

Shame you didn't read the rest of it:

*“Here even studies acknowledging that U.S. policymakers in February 1990 briefly discussed limits on NATO’s future presence risk understating the significance of U.S.-Soviet bargaining in 1990 by missing the importance of informal deals to politics, in general, and to Cold War diplomacy, in particular. In U.S. domestic politics, for example, an informal offer can constitute a binding agreement provided one party gives up something of value in consideration of payment in goods or services. A similar principle applies to inter- national politics: not only are formal agreements often the codiacation of arrangements that states would make regardless of a formal offer, but if private and unwritten discussions are meaningless, then diplomacy itself would be an unnecessary and fruitless exercise.

Moreover, informal agreements and understandings were especially important during the Cold War. The 1962 Cuban missile crisis, for example, was re- solved in part through an informal agreement whereby the United States and the Soviet Union each removed missiles near the other’s territory. In the 1970s and 1980s, an unofficial alliance developed between the United States and China, as each turned to the other to balance Soviet ambitions in Europe and Asia. And as Marc Trachtenberg shows, Europe’s Cold War or- der emerged from tacit U.S. and Soviet initiatives in the 1950s and 1960s that helped the two sides and ways to coexist within a divided Europe. Ultimately, informal arrangements abounded during the Cold War as the United States and the Soviet Union competed for power, influence, and security.”(Shifrinson, Deal or No Deal?: The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion, p. 18)*

https://uwidata.com/25911-natos-pledges-in-documents-not-to-expand-eastward/

How do China and Iran benefit from the election of one candidate/party over the other?

Sanctions will push India closer to China

Well lets just hope it is not an empty warning and that they follow through with action ... quickly. Israel has grown used to being patted on the head for all its atrocities over the decades. I doubt they will back off with just a warning.

It takes away all the credibility of our banking system.

Which is a win for China and BRICS

That's because the Telegraph is a very right wing rag

Sky News

And we only need to take Rupert Murdoch's word for it to be true

Yes, also; Afghanistan, The Balkans, Belarus, Central African Republic, China, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe and countless individuals

It was never given a chance

The CIA will ensure that he wins. He's a Neocon, a fully paid up subscriber to the Wolfowitz Doctrine and a lot more reliable than Trump.

The Eurovision Song Contest is an incredibly easy thing to boycott

Biden doesn't know his arse from his elbow, he just says what the Neocons in the CIA tell him to

It's a shame you are being downvoted because you are quite correct. Nato mat be rich but it only represents around 15% of the global population.

You seem to think that the US gives a shit about human rights. Pushing its own geopolitical agenda is the ONLY thing the US cares about. And no, I don't like Modi one bit, I'm just not blind to rank hypocrisy.

American and UN sources

I don't trust them either

Biden is a neocon, a fully paid up subscriber to the Wolfowitz Doctrine. His "America must lead the world in the 21st Century" rhetoric makes a lot of countries uncomfortable. Doubly so given his complicity in the Gaza genocide cheerlead by a Nato-based media who refuse to call it that.

They can see the hypocrisy of a regime that blankets the word with military bases, overthrows democratically elected governments and sponsors destabilisation efforts while accusing everyone it doesn't like of doing the same.

The US has been pumping out anti- Iranian propaganda for the last two 45 years

FTFY. The islamic revolution was 1979

Accountability. If there was a name they would have to provide some kind of evidence or justification for the claims. As it is we just have to take their word for it.