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Noted in the linked UN news source: > Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained. It would have been interesting if
by bell-cot 1mo ago
Noted in the linked UN news source:
> Six countries – Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine – abstained.
It would have been interesting if NPR had covered the diplomatic and economic considerations behind those countries abstaining, and no other right-wing nationalist regime siding with the US.
- DemocracyFTW2 1mo agoReading the Wikipedia article on the Equal Earth projection it would seem the map used in the resolution indicates national boundaries.
- bell-cot 1mo agoAnd Wikipedia outlines in considerable detail why those boundaries are quite objectionable to a good number of nations in Europe. Quoting multiple UN Ambassadors on this resolution. Vs. NPR found an angle that'd push their reader's buttons, and figured their job was done. Glad I stopped donating to NPR in the early aughties.
- anticorporate 1mo agoMedia organizations famously are able to do more in-depth reporting when you stop funding them...
- whoarewethen 1mo ago[flagged]
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