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3·3 days agoThis is - among others - what is understood by propaganda and what I’d call an agenda: Repeat your own single argument, not matter what others have commented.
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You can criticize Israel’s genocide, but this article is about something else. OP picked and chose some details out of context to provide a desired narrative, a ‘method’ that is unfortunately widespread here.
An important detail that others have already said is that the EU collaborates with a lot of non-EU and also with non-European countries. Here is a list of the EU’s Science and Technology Agreements with non-EU countries.
It has also been said that these countries must contribute financially for the projects they apply, another point that is important in this context that you didn’t mention.
What ‘stood out most’ to you and the way you represented it is a detail out of context that ends up in an article reflecting a completely distorted reality.
If you read the stats and you come up with such an (edited) title, it is clear that OP has an agenda. This is not about information or instigating a discussion because they are interesting in something, it’s just to spread someone’s propaganda.
Then it’s clearly off-topic, no? Just read the post.
This is about the Russian government’s surveillance of its citizens. It has nothing to do with EU nor the US.
Maybe it is just me but I feel this is a strange article. I came across a handful of ‘European correspondent’ articles and literally all of them -this one included- have no research, they seem to just citing secondary sources and link to similar reports. (And I feel also the headline a bit strange.) But maybe I am mistaken, I just don’t know what to do with this report.
A U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier bearing Russian and American flags was filmed storming Ukrainian positions in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian propaganda media outlet RT claimed on Aug. 18.
Allegedly sent by Russian soldiers of the 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Guards Division, the video likely shows an M113 that was supplied to Ukraine by its Western allies and captured by Russian forces during fighting.
The video was shared by Russian propaganda media just days after U.S. President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in what Moscow cast as the end of its international isolation.
Here is the video.
The Lithuanian banks do not operate in China , The Baltic nation has drawn China’s ire for years. Beijing expelled Lithuania’s ambassador in 2021 in response to Lithuania allowing Taiwan to open a liaison office in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
Guess this is more an attempt of bullying a European country than economic sanctions based on reasonable ground. It’s somewhat ridiculous, but the Chinese government shows once again that it is an unreliable partner.
It’s oversimplified on purpose. The message needs to be crystal clear, and it needs to be repeated so often that no politician can go into a Talkshow without having to explain themselves why they are not taxing the rich.
Is this the solution or part of the problem? Don’t get me wrong I don’t question your good intentions, but I am not sure whether this is the right way to get there. Our information pipelines - and the talkshows - are crammed full of simple would-be solutions that doesn’t bring us any further imo.
What we needed is a broad public discussion across the whole society asking questions like, “What should the state and our democratic communities be responsible for?”, “How much money should the government spend, and for what?” (These are, btw, the same questions any university lecture on Public Finance starts with.)
Are talkshows (or big tech’s social media such as Tiktok, Facebook, and the like) the right tools to discuss these? I don’t think so. I used to believe that decentralized platforms like Lemmy may offer an opportunity to initiate such a debate, but after a few days here I am not so sure anymore. There is as much partisanship and totalitarian gibberish as anywhere else.
Maybe this comment is a bit off-topic, so just ignore it (and feel free to delete it), these are just my 2 cents.
I personally support ‘taxing the rich’, but I also think presenting this as a solution is hopelessly oversimplified. We need to rebuild the complex social contract, and this goes well beyond taxes imo.
So Russia and China, number 2 and 3 world gas consumers, are increasing their gas consumption independently, right? Is is that what you say? For the world climate it doesn’t make a difference.
A lot of western countries are following usa lead
The comment and the data on the linked sites say that gas demand has spurred by China, Russia, and the USA.
Did China and Russia also follow the US lead? Or did they increase their gas consumption independently?
Did any ambassador except the Chinese one ever drag down a protester and beat them?
One such incident occurred in the UK in October 2022, when a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was dragged into the grounds of a Chinese consulate in Manchester and beaten, in events captured on camera
[Exiled Chinese pro-democracy activist Carmen Lau] argues that the UK should not allow China’s “authoritarian regime” to have its new embassy in such a symbolic location. One of her fears is that China, with such a huge embassy, could harass political opponents and could even hold them in the building.
Even the UK Socialist Workers association says that “the Chinese state is no alternative to Western imperialism.”
There have been more reasons and ‘incidents’ regarding Chinese transnational repression, it’s easy to find.
I am sorry, but this is almost hilarious. Russia runs a plot to trigger a migrant crisis in Europe, not France. I am far from being the French government’s greatest admirer, but this is really odd.
It relates as France is willing to work alongside Russian interests in North Africa, if France believes it to serve their own interests. Now it backfires and that was predictable.
What was predictable?
France may or may not have collaborated with the Haftars in Libya, but if so, how was it predictable that Russia would collaborate with a warlord in Libya to trigger a migrant crisis in Europe?
It also raises questions about France reliability in fending off Russian threats to the EU.
As someone already said, all the governments cooperate at least in some areas, this may be sometimes wrong and misguided, but I feel raising the France’s Libya connection in this context and then claiming Russia’s move was predictable is a bit far-fetched.
It says that the two European countries (France and Italy) see Libya as a key partner in stopping the wave of migration from sub-Saharan Africa.
Is there more about the France-Libya relationship than these three lines in an article that writes about another topic so that one can dig a bit deeper?
And, if so, if France’s alleged backing of Libya’s Haftar has nothing to do with the Russia-Libya cooperation aiming at initiating a migrant crisis in the EU, why do we even bring in France into this discussion? Is it just as a means of distraction? Whataboutism? I don’t understand that.
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Do you even recognize that you post the same comment no matter what the issue is? You are just repeating one and the same argument whatever one says.