Nobody wants to enter into a hot war with the US. Without Western support, Israel would be in a pickle right now.

Egypt lashes out at "extremist Israeli leaders" after Netanyahu says IDF must seize Gaza-Egypt buffer zone

Hezbollah Hits IDF Airbase in Northern Israel for Second Time in Two Weeks

Iran’s IRGC says 5 members killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus

Jordan accuses Israel of deliberately targeting its Gaza field hospital

Israel has comprehensively pissed off all of its neighbours. It knows it can get away with it too, because daddy US will always be there to support them.

"the Chinese"

Not China (the country), not the PRC (the country), but "the Chinese."

Because that's what the US ambassador thinks of Chinese people.

There's record of ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon playing a role in orchestrating the coup. Tell me more about how America isn't intervening in foreign democracies.

The US wanted to strike Iranian targets without retaliation in order to not lose face globally. Tehran says no. If I were serving on a US military base in the Middle East, I'd be looking for ways to take leave because things are about to get hot.

Perfectly normal thing for independent media to do in support of a healthy democracy.

Obama has absolutely absurd charisma. He's the Democrat version of Trump - knows exactly what to say to his base and knows how to convince moderates he's not insane.

Clinton and Biden have the charisma of a limp noodle. Sanders has absurd charisma, but he's seen as too big of a threat to Democrat lobbyists and big corporations.

Sanders would've mopped the floor with Trump because he would've actually been able to grab the 18-44 demographic (which last saw peaks in 1992 Clinton/Gore and 2008 Obama/Biden, both to unseat a Republican and, coincidentally, a Bush).

Sanders would have been able to avoid the collapse in turnout from working-class Black people in 2016.

Sanders would've stopped the increasing right-wing radicalization of the youth of America, or provided a counterweight for left-wing economic radicalization.

The US federal elections are basically a pony show and the DNC doesn't know how to play the game without throwing out their playbook.

I mean I too would not be happy about a two-state solution with a "state" that's releasing snuff films of my people.

Not internationally significant. This is US news.

US news, but a public safety warning. Stay healthy, everyone!

Casual racism? From a same place that casually obliterated the languages of the indigenous people of the island in favour of Mandarin? Say it isn't so...

Argentina needs shock therapy to realize milei is a dumbass

Seems like Erdogan is finally releasing his iron grip on the country since he does not plan to run for reelection. Turkey has had a uniquely independent geopolitical position that gives it immense negotiating power with both the West and the Global South. It'll be interesting to see if they can continue that balance in the future.

Explains why Canada is so happy to dick around in the Middle East.

It should either fall under "not our problem" or under "conflict bad please stop fighting." Those are the two reasonable humanitarian positions.

Biden's had no more regard for the intended role of the executive branch than Trump, he's just less openly antagonistic about it. Trump openly derides the system, while Biden just quietly whips it into line.

China is sending aid to Gaza, is pressuring regional partners to stop infighting, and Chinese weapons are "accidentally" ending up in Palestinian hands. Chinese shipping is blatantly showcasing the viability of Yemen's sanctions by restricting shipments to Israel in exchange for transiting the Red Sea (putting the ships at risk of getting caught in a US/UK strike). China, in general, has a policy off no-military-intervention outside of it's immediate vicinity and hasn't fired ammunition at an enemy since the fall of the Soviiet Union, and hasn't fought at scale since 1979. China does not express its power with "who has a bigger stick."

Are we also forgetting that China mediated the Iran-KSA rapprochement, which had direct implications on the Israel-KSA relationship?

Genocide going well

Putin propaganda like "Canadian MPs clapped for a Nazi," which definitely didn't happen.

How the fuck did Biden think a ceasefire was going to happen? Netanyahu wasn't consulted, Hamas was against it, and the "agreement" they tabled basically regurgitated the Israeli proposal that was already shot down.

Who is running the state department in this administration and how are they so incompetent?

Given that ships are reporting ties to China to avoid getting targeted and state-owned COSCO has stopped serving Israel in exchange for Red Sea transit, I'm not really sure what pressure the US hopes to apply here.

China doesn't care about the Houthis because they're not interrupting Chinese trade.

They support actual US propaganda more than they support well-trusted international news agencies like Associated Press and SCMP.

They've taken down Associated Press articles for "missinformation" and SCMP articles for "propaganda." Yet, RFA/RFERL articles are perfectly fine.

Looking at the modlog, they also remove any comments that discuss their removal policy.