It doesn’t seem like corruption; the man just ran unopposed. He was probably just as surprised at the outcome as we are.
China, Russia, Saudi Arabia have started to dominate the UN while doing stuff like this and vetoing things that affect their long term goals
Not to sound like a tankie (I hate the US and Russia equally, and China only slightly less), but isn’t that what the West has been doing since forever?
Not to sound like a tankie (I hate the US and Russia equally, and China only slightly less), but isn’t that what the West has been doing since forever?
Sure but firstly this hits a bit different when Russia, China, SA, and their buddies have an abhorrent record of human rights abuses in the modern era, the US has historically been bad, but no worse than their peers. So to avoid getting into whataboutism sure the US protects their interests, but outside of when someone like Trump and the MAGAs controls, the US generally sides with human rights, religious freedom, and equal rights, things may not always work out how we hoped they would but at least we’re trying to help stabilize the world.
The main point you should understand is that this isn’t a Russia, China, US, SA, Israel, whatever, problem, this is a Far Right vs everyone else problem. The Far Right is nationalism, monarchies, tyranny, fascism, religious fundamentalism, we see leaders like Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, Erdogan, Modi, Xi, Orban, Khomeini, the SA Qatari and UAE rulers, and others all coordinating with the same people, outlawing the same things, they breed corruption, and their interests aren’t legitimate because they operate as kings/mafia bosses, these are the people making minorities unsafe, through demonization and persecution, they threaten freedom of speech mostly because they don’t want to be exposed and be criticized, and they all have a “religion” they want to force on us, religion is in quotations because China and Xi force communism as a religion sure it’s under the guise of atheism but to them Mao was Jesus and the teachings of communism is their Bible.
To go further into it, you can trace the money supporting the worst people in the world back to a few Western billionaires, their Eastern counterparts, and a few specific countries, like Russia, Iran, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Israel. Just look at how China, Qatar, and the Saudis have financially backed Elon Musk, Trump, and many similar people.
Obviously I’m not trying to say leftists and centrists are blameless in all of this, but overtly they are generally not helping actual dictators, they aren’t trying to help the rich get richer and more powerful, and they’re trying to support minorities, workers rights, human rights, and so on.
I’m sure you can say I’m biased, but this is how I see the pieces fitting together, and why to me that it’s so troubling seeing the UN fall under the sway of some of the worst examples of bad actor countries, it’s creeping global fascism and at the moment we are one bad US election from the global tyrants and wannabe tyrants divvying up the world how they want and us little people suffering for it.
It doesn’t seem like corruption; the man just ran unopposed. He was probably just as surprised at the outcome as we are.
Not to sound like a tankie (I hate the US and Russia equally, and China only slightly less), but isn’t that what the West has been doing since forever?
Sure but firstly this hits a bit different when Russia, China, SA, and their buddies have an abhorrent record of human rights abuses in the modern era, the US has historically been bad, but no worse than their peers. So to avoid getting into whataboutism sure the US protects their interests, but outside of when someone like Trump and the MAGAs controls, the US generally sides with human rights, religious freedom, and equal rights, things may not always work out how we hoped they would but at least we’re trying to help stabilize the world.
The main point you should understand is that this isn’t a Russia, China, US, SA, Israel, whatever, problem, this is a Far Right vs everyone else problem. The Far Right is nationalism, monarchies, tyranny, fascism, religious fundamentalism, we see leaders like Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, Erdogan, Modi, Xi, Orban, Khomeini, the SA Qatari and UAE rulers, and others all coordinating with the same people, outlawing the same things, they breed corruption, and their interests aren’t legitimate because they operate as kings/mafia bosses, these are the people making minorities unsafe, through demonization and persecution, they threaten freedom of speech mostly because they don’t want to be exposed and be criticized, and they all have a “religion” they want to force on us, religion is in quotations because China and Xi force communism as a religion sure it’s under the guise of atheism but to them Mao was Jesus and the teachings of communism is their Bible.
To go further into it, you can trace the money supporting the worst people in the world back to a few Western billionaires, their Eastern counterparts, and a few specific countries, like Russia, Iran, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Israel. Just look at how China, Qatar, and the Saudis have financially backed Elon Musk, Trump, and many similar people.
Obviously I’m not trying to say leftists and centrists are blameless in all of this, but overtly they are generally not helping actual dictators, they aren’t trying to help the rich get richer and more powerful, and they’re trying to support minorities, workers rights, human rights, and so on.
I’m sure you can say I’m biased, but this is how I see the pieces fitting together, and why to me that it’s so troubling seeing the UN fall under the sway of some of the worst examples of bad actor countries, it’s creeping global fascism and at the moment we are one bad US election from the global tyrants and wannabe tyrants divvying up the world how they want and us little people suffering for it.