WATCH: US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza
consortiumnews.com
The United States Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
      • chaogomu@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        WW2, we only joined because Japan attacked. Otherwise, there were elements of the US population that were cheering for Hitler.

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          People don’t realize that the US used to see fascism as a sort of white utopia. It was really popular up until WW2 when they hard turned on it. Kind of like what happened with communism, actually. It was seen as a revolutionary form of democracy up until the cold war, now people only know it for all the propaganda that came out of the era. (most of which was flat out lies made up on the spot by actual nazis)

          It’s a lot of the reason why the modern day liberal is so staunchly both-sides when it comes to anything geopolitics.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    What’s particularly notable is that US vetoed the resolution that Russia put out on the basis that it did not condemn Hamas. However, US also vetoed subsequent resolution by Brazil that did condemn Hamas without giving a coherent explanation for the second veto. The only conclusion that can be reasonably drawn here is that US regime wants people to suffer and die. US is intentionally enabling a genocide in Gaza against the will of the rest of the world.

    To sum up, fuck the US regime.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      without giving a coherent explanation for the second veto

      They said that they vetoed because “Brazil didn’t say that Israel has a right of self-defense”.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        That’s not a coherent explanation given that the purpose of the resolution is to have a ceasefire as in both sides ceasing hostilities.

        • CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml
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          9 months ago

          It doesn’t even make any sense period. States are the ones that delineate “rights.” A sovereign state would never need to affirm its “rights” or have them affirmed, unless their sovereignty was conditional.

          So, all of this is a show the international (imperial) community plays to endorse the genocide. The US gives the occupier of Palestine the “right” to defend itself from blowback and demands support from its other vassals and victims to solidify the sovereignty of an illegitimate project through their recognition as legitimate players. Yet this seemingly challenges the sovereignty of the project, almost as if it is just a US colony in need of permission…

          The US would never - maybe not even rhetorically - rely on rights granted to it by the international community to assert its imperial sovereignty. The society of states is such a fucking joke.