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I've realized that we keep hearing a never ending stream of diatribes from people like Biden, Kamala and Trump about foreign leaders and countries and I've been wondering why non-Western countries don't do the same.

There's certainly a never ending list of reasons to do so; I can't help but wonder if perhaps had African countries been lambasting America about their violent policies and actions that Libya wouldn't have happened in a 'silence'. Israel, for example, striking Iran's consulate in Syria wasn't something they could do and then people let them forget that they started it; this is why you have people asking (American and British) government spokespeople about Iran's right to self defense and retaliation.

American journalists travel around the world to go and harass foreign leaders about every little choice they make; are journalists from Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America trying to get interviews with Western leaders to ask them the same ridiculous questions our journalists ask but getting no response or refused?

I really feel like with a constant microscopic lens on every single awful choice we make, it just gets harder and harder to get away with it. If I HAD to compare it to something, I'd say it feels similar to when an abusive person tries manipulating or threatening an ex or a partner of his in public; it benefits the abuser that his victim is silent and doesn't make a scene. I do also understand that our government intentionally creates rifts between nations so that they're less likely to stand united and to have one anothers' backs. Certainly I'm nearly vocally cheering every time I see African leaders respond to the idiot journalists or politicians we keep sending their way; I'm following an African twitter account and get posts from time to time of the idiot journalists asking either stupid questions or hypocritical ones; for example now with that knowledge of those interviews that occurred, I can wonder (rhetorically) why don't journalists go over and ask African leaders now about their decision not to arrest Putin as per the ICC ruling (the idea being that Western leaders don't want to arrest Netanyahu).

But as I said, I can also understand how countries just want to exist in peace and don't want the headache; it's probably just me being youtube 'debate me brah' brained and wanting to see the global South own the idiot news channels.

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 53 points 2 months ago

A bunch of them do but you sure as fuck won't hear about it in Western media

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

The DPRK does and when the western press bothers to cover it they're like "oh ha ha Wacky Korea is doing it again saying we did war crimes in the 50s starvingpeoplesamehaircutpushthetrains oh ho ho back to the real news."

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Yeah def not in Western media. Read it in other outlets

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I really hate feeling like I'm being insulated from opinions of people around the world, especially when you realize so many world leaders are actually genuinely geniuses and not the kind of braindead pondscum we get back home.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago
[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

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[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Oof, I didn't know about this; thanks for the link!

[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

As other commenters have said, they do bring it up, you just don't hear about it on western media. I've experienced it in former soviet, yugoslavia states.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I really hate feeling like our media insulates us from the rest of the world, especially as what we get are idiotic understandings of the world.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

It's pretty much constant in Africa, nobody has forgotten Lumumba and those guys.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

I'm just guessing that smaller countries are going to miss out over trade deals and the terrible aid that Amerika gives if they complain too loudly. As Amerika weakens, this pressure should lesson. Hopefully the 2030s will be filled with the Global South screaming about US sins.

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 13 points 2 months ago

Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua brings it up all the time, no one in the US reports on it.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Ah, I didn't know who this person was but I'm going to see if I can find stuff he's said.

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hexbear removes externally hosted images but check it out https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/nicaragua-cover.jpg

It says THE MAN WHO MAKES REAGAN SEE RED

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Me thinking about imperial Japanese warcrimes.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

"Hey Jamie, can you pull up the slideshow with the clips of Iranian leaders?"

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