I appreciate the edit, but I’m still unclear on how the post is cherry-picking to make its point. My reading of the original post is that it acknowledged statements made in support of the MoU with Iran and in support of Ukraine, but took issue with what wasn’t mentioned or discussed in the speech (i.e., mentioning the MoU with Iran without mentioning the US and Israel’s illegal war against Iran, and mentioning Russian aggression toward Ukraine without applying those same principles to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land).
I think the original post’s intent was to highlight how this new PM isn’t really doing anything new when it comes to pushing back on the reliance on ‘realpolitik’ as a defense for not calling out bad actions by allies. Smacks a bit of hypocrisy to me too.
I think the main thing to take home from this is that it’s just a generic speech given to a southeast Asian trade group, it’s not really something that highlights policy or action. The post is reading too much into it, when the point of the speech was international relations with countries in a completely different region of the world.
My edit points out that the point of the speech was to assure international relations with southeast Asian countries, you’re reading far too much into it if you’re focusing on Iran, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine or Russia.
Tweak@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Provided an edit, wasn’t quick enough lol
lmdnw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I appreciate the edit, but I’m still unclear on how the post is cherry-picking to make its point. My reading of the original post is that it acknowledged statements made in support of the MoU with Iran and in support of Ukraine, but took issue with what wasn’t mentioned or discussed in the speech (i.e., mentioning the MoU with Iran without mentioning the US and Israel’s illegal war against Iran, and mentioning Russian aggression toward Ukraine without applying those same principles to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land).
I think the original post’s intent was to highlight how this new PM isn’t really doing anything new when it comes to pushing back on the reliance on ‘realpolitik’ as a defense for not calling out bad actions by allies. Smacks a bit of hypocrisy to me too.
Tweak@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I think the main thing to take home from this is that it’s just a generic speech given to a southeast Asian trade group, it’s not really something that highlights policy or action. The post is reading too much into it, when the point of the speech was international relations with countries in a completely different region of the world.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Your edit literally proves the point of what DeclassifiedUK said?
Tweak@feddit.uk 2 months ago
My edit points out that the point of the speech was to assure international relations with southeast Asian countries, you’re reading far too much into it if you’re focusing on Iran, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine or Russia.