US foreign policy in this regard is deranged.

It simultaneously supports Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, and Somalia.

Comparing China-Vietnam relations with China-Philippines relations is showcasing the difference between cooperation and antagonization.

India, the world’s largest democracy, threatens democracy across the globe?

There was an article in a German paper that most of Ukraine’s Leopards were out of commission… Probably from lack of maintenance rather than anything else, but still.

The US says, while it donates billions of dollars in bombs to Israel’s attempt at eradicating Palestine.

Both Russia and Ukraine are heavily reliant on consumer drones from the likes of DJI. Those run in the 1000-4000 dollar range.

Topics suppressed in the US are underrepresented on Reddit

See? I too can make obvious statements.

A metaphorical nuclear weapon, much better.

Nice “Pultizer-Prize” winning journalist btw

Is anyone surprised? China’s been investing massively into Bolivian infrastructure (hydropower, mostly) at shockingly low interest rates. They deserve the return on investment.

I’m not saying it’s Mossad, but it’s probably Mossad. There are much easier targets than the memorial for Qassem Suleimani: this is sending a message to Iran.

The perpetrators: a birthday party in Xiamen.

MBFC doesn’t even match the other media bias/credibility sites like Ad Fontes. It’s a crapshoot because the person running that site is basically a nobody with zero credibility themselves.

Yeah, seems like it. This is true for a lot of online forums tbh: they reflect what Americans think of the world more than they reflect the world itself.

I think title should approximately match headline, or at least text in the article. Additional commentary is a little annoying to moderate.

US internal news was a bigger problem for Reddit, but I think this community is a bit more international. Maybe blocking US news from US sources? If something is big enough to hit international headlines, it’s probably important.

The current mods are strongly against op-eds, so …

MBFC is really not that great a measure of objectivity, but really I think there is no good measure of objectivity given that the “truth” (e.g. Iraq had WMDs and thus the invasion of Iraq is justified) is fluid.

I don’t think moderators should be the arbitrator of truth in a community, but an arbitrator of what’s offensive/hate speech.

If Israel starts allowing independent journalists in and stops killing journalists…

We’re already inundated with propaganda from Western sources. The NYT article in question cites almost exclusively from IDF or IDF-backed sources.

This community censors Al Jazeera posts by calling them “duplicates” and leaves up the least anti-Israel post.

I highly doubt it cares about being comprehensive in coverage

These “accidental grenade detonations” are really becoming a thing, huh?

First Prigozhin, then Zaluzhny’s top military aide, and now Polish police.

Neither is Wikipedia

or Lemmy

and yet…