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Is that the same UN that has its secretary-general António Guterres shaking hands with Putin and Lukashenko this week? Let's be honest, UN is one of the most u
by id00 2y ago
Is that the same UN that has its secretary-general António Guterres shaking hands with Putin and Lukashenko this week?
Let's be honest, UN is one of the most useless organization in the world (and been for a while, look at history of their Africa operations). By now their presense on ground with inability to actually do anything or help anybody is a liability (eg can't stop Hezbollah from launching rockets and using them as a shield)
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoThey being there has been informative. We know of israel attacking UN bases. We are yet to see Hezbolla militants holding white hats at gunpoint. Or at least hiding in a tunnel under a UN base
- rendall 2y agoThere have been thousands rockets fired from southern Lebanon into Israel. So, Israel doesn't need permission from the UN or the international community or the US to invade and take out Hezbollah. Certainly not UNIFIL, who have been entirely useless as peace keepers.
- rendall 2y ago> Or at least hiding in a tunnel under a UN base You should balance your news consumption, because here is a terror tunnel within view of a UNIFIL observation center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KPLphHpQfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KPLphHpQfA This nonsense has been going on for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rpCIMs0Xpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rpCIMs0Xpo
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoThanks for the links. Unfortunately, the telegraph is not a serious source of information (visit the frontpage anytime for proof). The other video is even worse. I personally wait until CNN publishes such information. It is the only Israel biased news source I deem above fakenews.
- rendall 2y agoIf you think of CNN as pro-Israel, no wonder you're so anti-Israel. Bypass the middle men altogether! Listen to Hamas directly! Listen to Israeli officials directly! Listen to everyone you can without preconceptions. Each party says very clearly exactly what they believe and what they are doing and what they want and how they plan to achieve it. Look for consistency and straight-forward statements of fact. Watch out when something affirms your preconceptions because that's when you are most vulnerable to being manipulated. When you listen to a Westerner, especially an American journalist, explain what Hamas, Palestine, Israel, Hezbollah or Iran is doing, they are filtering it through their own biases and preconceptions and are almost certainly flat-out incorrect. Heck. Unfiltered man in the street interviews. You can't get more direct than that. Here are some. https://www.youtube.com/@CoreyGilShusterAskProject/videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreyGilShusterAskProject/videos Listen to the Israelis and Palestinians. They say very clearly and directly what they want.
- pjmlp 2y agoThe biggest issue we are facing now, it is that the same has happened ot the previous organization, League of Nations Union, which became useless to prevent WW II, UN was born after the war with the goal to be a better organisation than it predecessor. And here we are, at the edge of WW III, with an useless UN.
- timeon 2y agoHow would you imagine useful UN? Or do you just want to be without it?
- pjmlp 2y agoFirst of all, one whose army is actually useful, there are plenty of examples of genocides where UN troops were present and nothing was done to prevent that. A weapon only works as dissuasion if the agressor isn't sure it might be used, otherwise they might as well be holding paper sticks.