• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    Almost like news written in english tends to focus on english-speaking countries and their allies

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      The obvious context of this meme is articles that express the “consensus opinion of the international community” on some foreign issue. Like “international community condemns antisemetic criticism of Israel.” Or “international community condemns Niger coup, calls for original government to be reinstated so France can keep buying cheap Uranium from the second poorest country on the planet.”

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    I don’t know about US but EU has a bunch of news agencies that are fairly credible. Some local smaller ones don’t have a reason not to be.

    The international community in the picture is all that matters. Change the size of the countries in the map by the size of their economies and that’s all that matters. Change it by the factor of their diplomatic influence and the change would be even greater.

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        If you ever talk about an international community, these are the only countries that actually COMMUNE. Almost all the rest are too involved with themselves to have a diplomatic strategy beyond their narrow short-term self interest. That’s also why that’s the only international community that matters. That’s not a tone deaf world view, that’s the reality.

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          No, these are the only countries that destabilised entire continents to get what they wanted in the last few centuries and now they wash their hands off of them. The countries that are left behind are still trying to clean the shit up the West has created.

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            They exist, many organizations exist, but they are only a collection of countries each looking for its own short sighted benefits.

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                Sure they do, but I’m not into nitpicking specific situations or argue about edge cases.

                They don’t really like each other, mostly they see themselves as competitors and their treaties are situational, worth nothing except in the best of times when everything is going well for everyone.

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                  Edge cases? Are you serious? Since when does the U.S. give a shit about anyone but the U.S.?

                  And saying that the U.S. respects its treaties shows a laughable ignorance of history.

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    Basically democracies. It is kind of difficult to consider non-democratic dictators like Putin or Kim Jong-un as representatives of some kind of “community”.

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      What an odd coincidence that primarily white, English-speaking countries have democracy.

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        Nothing odd about it. There are historical reasons for that. But English speaking? You do know that there are many countries in EU?

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      yeah,

      these are the democracies that invaded Iraq/Libya to install a democracy.

      I keep having to remind myself how much good it did to the people of Iraq/Libya.