• febra@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Can’t wait to see the list of US/Israel bootlickers that abstained from/voted against this, trying to deny an entire people the right to their own land.

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      8 months ago

      “The United States voted against the resolution, along with Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea.”

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          Palau is basically a U.S. vassal state.

          Having voted in a referendum against joining the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978,[11][12] the islands gained full sovereignty in 1994 under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

          Politically, Palau is a presidential republic in free association with the United States, which provides defense, funding, and access to social services.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau

          Remember that when someone claims America isn’t an empire.

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              You say that as if that’s all America is. America controls a vast amount of land. It’s the third largest country in the world and, unlike the first two largest (Russia and Canada), most of that land is also usable for either farming or resource extraction. But that’s not the only reason it’s an empire. It’s also an empire because it has a large military presence in multiple countries who rely on it to supply defense at least in part. But another reason it’s an empire is that it has vassal states. It doesn’t matter how small those states are. Especially not when they are in strategic Pacific locations.

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                I’m not denying the imperialism of the US, I’m just saying that a group of islands with a total population 1/10th the size of my city isn’t really the chief problem, and kinda comes off as anti-American for anti-American sake. There are myriad other problems, and a couple of islands that gave us some strategy in the Pacific are hardly the East India Trading Company.

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                  8 months ago

                  It also has a method of governance were politicians harp on and on (and on, AND ON) about having wonderful human rights whilst having the largest fraction of the population emprisioned in the World, regular murders by police, commonly deploying violence against demonstrators, having a voting system that enforces a power duopoly, regularly disenfranchise minorities and were citizens do not have rights to health, food or a place to live, which is not a popular export.

                  FIFY

                  • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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                    8 months ago

                    When we reach for our democratic ideals we are at our best.

                    Meanwhile back in the middle east, authoritarian religious police stone you to death for saying things like you’re saying about their government. Grow up. You obviously have it very good.