[–] 1 point 7 months ago

Keep waiting, reading useless and pointless UN resolutions is not a hobby I have. I'm not against the UN, I think it's a needed organization, but this kind of pointless resolutions only makes it look bad and only feeds anti-UN positions within its biggest sponsor and host: the US.

So good luck with pointless resolutions aimed at the guy paying for the circus..

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    These resolutions are designed to make some countries look bad. Somewhere in the small print there's a point unacceptable for the US and Israel, so they vote against and newspapers world-wide can report on how US and Israel alone blocked the end of famine.

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    This article in 1 minute

    What’s the story?

    U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs on several African nations and cut off almost all aid programmes. Lesotho, a small country in the south of the continent, has been hit hardest by these measures.

    In recent decades, Lesotho responded to Western calls to industrialise, and built up a textile industry focused on exports to the United States. Now thousands of jobs are at risk and the government has declared a ‘‘state of disaster”.

    Lesotho tried to appease Trump with a range of U.S.-friendly measures and proposals, including a quickly granted licence for Elon Musk’s internet provider Starlink. But these moves have made little impact in Washington and officials in the African country fear the damage has already been done.

    Why does it matter?

    Other potential partners are stepping in to fill the gap left by the United States. The EU is looking for allies in Africa, but China is already acting “quickly and aggressively” to forge ties, according to a government minister in Lesotho. The extreme events in Lesotho illustrate Trump’s increasingly erratic approach to foreign policy that is alienating even traditional allies across the world.

    How was this investigated?

    Follow the Money visited Lesotho and spoke with a minister, entrepreneurs, civil servants, NGO workers, diplomats, academics and journalists.

    [+] -6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I find it funny how many people do seem to believe that the US or the EU funds Israel. Clearly clueless about the Israeli super resilient economy..

    The EU is indeed the biggest funder of Gaza and that seems to give it exactly zero influence there :/

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  • [+] -11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This toxic hateful comments dominating this discussion is the reason why I left Lemmy more than a year ago and make me want to go back to my decision. Sickening and incredible self defeating, this is not how French society will look at this murder.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 8 months ago

    My European brain can't understand how justice (does not) work in the US. There's a body, a weapon and a murderer, how is this not a murder trial?

    Wonder if it was the other way around, a liberal daughter accidentally killing her republican maga father, what would the jury say?

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