The government’s repression and killing is still going on, and it will continue until the regime falls.

Thank you for this sophisticated comment. [/s, just to be safe].

As a European, I am totally convinced it would be much better for the EU too.

@mrdown@lemmy.world

I don’t think you read my comment.

@mrdown@lemmy.world

Iran do not pose a security threat to Europe either. Even in Ukraine it is no longer the case.

Your comment amounts to nothing but autocratic propaganda as it is outright false. Even Chinese state media is citing Iran, saying Ukraine is a ‘legitimate target,’ and the Chinese government is supporting the Iranian regime as we know. They are explicitly threatening Ukraine.

That aside, Iran already provided weapons to Russia as you say yourself, and it has thus been posing a significant threat to Ukraine and Europe.

I get your point and fully agree. But I have just a nitpick in that everything Trump, Putin, or Xi (and many other ‘world leaders’) do isn’t for their countries or even their peoples but rather for their personal gains, political power, and money. It’s not so much about the US, Russia, China but rather about individual politicians’ interests and their total indifference toward their countries and the people imho.

No, it has not turned around. It’s gotten even worse since.

But there is no reason imho to repost things that old because we know this already. If we start posting things from last year because they didn’t get better we might soon have a lot of re-reads.

In addition, I don’t see how this is related to Canada.

It’s just another post in OP’s eternal propaganda mission. To give you an idea what I mean: China’s minority policy hasn’t turned around. Russia is still waging a war against Ukraine. Iran is still threatening protesters at home. Should we post all these here in the Canada community?

This article has been published 4 months ago.

What an absurdely weird comment. Transnational repression and foreign interference is part of the dictatorial playbook. The leader in this field is China (globally and in Canada, measured by the number of China’s United Front organizations in relation to the population size), but also by Iran. The regime in Teheran doesn’t care for Iranian citizens and their children, they have been opressing the Iranian population for decades.

I guess the author is referring to Mr. Carney’s speech in Davos soon after his visit to China where he ‘revived’ ties with Beijing, apparently ignoring its human rights violations.

Let’s hope the best. Sweden has just deployed Gripen in Iceland as part of its Nato air policing according to a report:

The deployment has also provided Sweden with an opportunity to demonstrate the Gripen’s capabilities to Canada. SAAB is seeking to persuade Ottawa to revisit its decision to purchase 88 American F-35 jets produced by Lockheed Martin, offering instead to manufacture Gripens in Canada and create 10,000 jobs.

There are a lot more examples, unfortunately. But I guess the author is referring to Mr. Carney’s speech in Davos soon after his visit to China where he ‘revived’ ties with Beijing, apparently ignoring its human rights violations.

What kind of news is tthis?

What is the difference between Russia and the US?

Just this week, Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s “economic envoy” who also serves as CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund, pitches joint US-Russia projects of 14 trillion USD, contingent on a peace agreement in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions.

Also this week we heard that Gentry Beach, a US investor with close ties to the Trump family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek already last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia.

Trump’s negotiators for peace in Ukraine are Steven Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, two real estate developers and investor. What do they negotiate?

If such polls are useful at all then only to distract from reality. That helps autocratic regimes as they make autocratic regimes like Russia and China look as the lesser evil. It’s not true, though.

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I get your point, although we should not generalize as there are many people who stick to independent information.

I agree that here on Lemmy we see a lot of this bit of human psychology, though. Tankies like OP do it all the time. Their alt accounts’ post histories have a special spin in that they (rightfully) condemn Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians, for example, while in their .ml communities they are literally cheering Russia’s atrocities against Ukrainian civilians.

As one study says:

… The presence of left-wing extremism on the Lemmygrad. ml instance of the decentralized social media platform Lemmy, from its launch in 2019 up to a month after the bans of the subreddits r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou … reveal a substantial increase in user activity and toxicity levels following the migration of these subreddits to Lemmygrad. ml. …

[Users] frequently share posts that support authoritarian regimes, as seen in their support for China, North Korea, and Russia. Moreover, their support can extend beyond backing these authoritarian regimes, even cheering on their violent actions, as evidenced by their posts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, we observe anti-Zionist and antisemitic behaviors, which show similarities to right-wing extremism … Our analysis suggests a concerning endorsement of authoritarian actions and extremist rhetoric on Lemmygrad. ml, further indicating that left-wing extremist communities on decentralized platforms should receive more attention from the academic community.

It’s a deeply disturbing mindset.

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Yes, but that is not news at all. If they are serious about that, they could at least post a real article about it instead of just some social media comment no one knows its even real.

That’s cheap anti-Western propaganda provided by hexbear.

That’s always the same empty propaganda rant.

China’s invasions happened long time ago, but the genocides in East Turkestan, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia are not only still going on but have been intensified in the recent decade.

And it’s not the ‘ruling class’ that wants a free Tibet but the Tibetans.

China’s atrocoties against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minorities within the country, its increasingly aggressive behaviour against its Asian neighbours on land and at sea, transnational repression and political interferences in Canada (Canada is among the most targeted countries worldwide by China in that respect), death threats by Chinese officials against officials of other governments (Japan) and even entire populations (Japan, Australia), … the list is too long for a comment here …

… if Canada were to team up with China in a humanitarian effort …

I would agree Canada to send oil to Cuba, but Canada doesn’t need China for this. And China’s own support for Cuba doesn’t reflect ‘humanitarian effort’ but rather an attempt to gain influence in the region. Very much as the US administration, China has no interest in humanitarian assistance, they seek leverage over others to exploit them for their own goals.