What would convince you?

Americans don’t seem to understand that every time they swoop in to ‘save’ Haiti, what they are really doing is enforcing the same colonial ideals that landed Haiti in the mess to start with.

You might find the article reassures you on this point if you decide to read it!

The truth is that the United States outsourced the Haiti mission to Kenya. U.S. President Joe Biden has admitted as much: “We concluded that for the United States to deploy forces in the hemisphere just raises all kinds of questions that can be easily misrepresented about what we’re trying to do,” Biden said in May during a news conference with Kenyan President William Ruto, adding, “So, we set out to find a partner or partners who would lead the effort that we would participate in.”

Ha, sorry about that — the President of Kenya, actually. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/23/fact-sheet-kenya-state-visit-to-the-united-states/

a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti

This is very odd, but also very intriguing. The President met with Biden a month ago, so this tracks. I kinda hope this happens just to see how it plays out.

Edit: this will also be a great test of who reads past the headline. There are going to be a lot of knee-jerk “Murica Bad” comments.

Also conveniently forgetting thousands of years of Chinese imperialism and Han chauvinism.

Have you seen videos of the skirmishes at the Kashmiri border? It’s absurd, like something out of a bad alternate history movie.

The September Revolution

I was wondering how they “punctured” this military vessel, then I watched the video… They’re fighting it out on freaking zodiacs.

Ironic username!

They didn’t judge you on skin color […] but they were still […] racist as fuck.

I don’t understand which definition of “racist” you’re using here, but OK. Romans didn’t care what colour you were, as long as you were educated and spoke good Latin. They even had two Maghrebin emperors.

Don’t gaslight me. They replied in agreement to a comment saying “at least Fidel cared about his people” and then went on to praise Cuba some more.

Yeah, the US are awful too, but it doesn’t logically follow that Cuba is great just because they’re an “adversary”. This isn’t a comic book — it’s possible for both sides to be bad.

I don’t care what I sound like, they’re also one of the few leaders/nations who successfully defended against American capitalist aggression attempting to destabilize their government to open up its resources/people to our owner’s merciless exploitation in their insatiable need for infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world, and remove as many potential global examples of alternative economic systems as possible, a feat many South American nations that dared to attempt a better future for their people failed to accomplish defending against.

And yet somehow I doubt you live there. Nor do the thousands of people who risk their life to escape every year.

They’re merely retvrning to tradition, although the ancient Romans weren’t nearly as racist.

Nah they’re a Jimmy Dore fan, i.e. an “anti-imperialist” who simps for the two most egregious imperialist countries today (China and Russia)

BRICS is a fabrication of Goldman Sachs and is little more than a punchline. What kind of “alliance” has its two biggest members actively involved in a border conflict? Also, has a single one of them stepped in to “help” Russia invade Ukraine?

the Ten Commandments are described as “foundational documents of our state and national government.

Jefferson must be rolling in his grave so fast that he could power the whole east coast. Bunch of uneducated goons.

China’s approach to international relations is truly remarkable. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to alienate every other country. Do they have a single non-vassal ally?

Umm ackshually it isn’t in real-time, it happened 300 million years ago /pedant

Given the long history of kathoey, I’m kinda surprised they weren’t among the first in the world to adopt it. Good news nonetheless.

They didn’t say “I had a bad experience”, they said “their service is trash”. You don’t get to say something sweepingly false and then hide behind “it was my experience”.