The US joining Russia on this vote is astonishing.
Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes.
Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia.
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Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes.
Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia.
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Asking for a friend.
Hamas are freedom fighters.
Idf are they at criminals
Israel is illegally occupying Palestine.
Genocide is the Israeli plan, a final solution.
The US foreign policy establishment has long charged that China and Russia want to overturn the existing global order and replace it with the rule of force.
This vote reflects two key points.
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I explained why here:
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-russia-jinping-putin/
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Biden, like Xi Jinping, sought to manage the acute tensions of neoliberal disintegration by simultaneously defending the status quo and demanding that it change.
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Is the alternative nothing more than naked coercion? Perhaps not.
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But a latter-day scramble for colonial plunder is unlikely to be any more peaceful than the inter-imperialist violence of the early 20th century was.
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