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Africa: Liberates itself from imperialist colonisation in the decades after after WWII
USA: Takes advantage of the post-war European Imperialist vacuum to go and do some imperialism for itself in Latin America, Asia and later the Middle-East
Africa: Mistrusts USA
USA: Pikachu shocked face
Don't forget France. France never stopped colonizing Africa, just changed their methods.
This might've hurt too.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/644222/loses-soft-power-edge-africa.aspx
America was up above 80% in 2009/2010, so this change can't be because either of those
Unless people in Africa became more educated, so it feels a bit easy to just disregard them. Also, people often don't change their mind overnight.
I don't think anyone is saying anything happened overnight. We're talking a fifty-sixty year delay on the events mentioned above. But also, I would want to see some evidence that Africans on average weren't aware of the legacy of colonialism up until the 2010s, because that seems like an unreasonably low estimation of education on the continent.
Besides that, Russia and China also saw declines throughout the 2010s from peaks in 2009/2010. That would suggest to me that something in the 2010s made Africans on average less approving of the world's major powers in general
This was a fascinating read
Why wouldn't it?
Owned
What are the approval numbers for France and are they lower than Malaria's
Moscow may be able to address the continent’s urgent security demands through arms sales that exceed Washington’s capacity
Happens when you deindustrialize your own country to crush working-class movements
How much money has China invested in Africa?
Islamic countries aren’t buying the US’s Uyghur genocide psyop. That propaganda only seems to work on the Fourteen Eyes’ own people, who live in a media bubble.
Psyop is a big word. Overblown, maybe, but definitely not a psyop. Just because there's no evidence that they're getting murdered doesn't mean what's happening is ok.
People are more likely just uniformed, like the vast majority of people everywhere. And it's easy to distrust america when they're all over the news with their fucked up stuff. And despite all that they're still above 50% with russia and china not much higher, so... Whatever.
The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and when those efforts failed it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just last week.
We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.
Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.
The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.
Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.
Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).
Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
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Wow, so many links and so much effort just to say: "enemy super smart and powerful that creates world-wide misinformation and controls the world", but then they're also super stupid and sends a "CIA agent" to do an ama on reddit. Fascism 101, isn't it?
Other than putting words in my mouth and invoking Umberto Eco with no evidence, you seem to have nothing to say.
invoking Umberto Eco with no evidence
Gold. I'm tempted to put this on a rules list somewhere.
I don't think that's it
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