U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result reflected neither the will nor the votes of the Venezuelan people. He called for election officials to publish the full results transparently and immediately and said the U.S. and the international community would respond accordingly.
Well that kind of defeats the point doesn’t it? If you’re so far within a rabbithole of politics that you never hear anything positive about the U.S. then that’s on you.
Just one example out of many, the Biden administration stopped a fascist coup in Brazil and protected the democratic legitimacy of the socialist who won the election.
I get my news from pretty diverse sources, so it shouldn’t be that hard. If the US is so incredibly good then it would be relatively easy to point to a recent event or something. Jog my memory on some incredible good that I’ve forgotten.
As for what you linked, I’ve never heard of that one, also never even heard of that organisation. It’s also pay-walled, so I couldn’t even read it if I wanted to.
Diversity of sources almost doesn’t matter, quality does, you could watch a hundred different Trumpist YT channels, Fox, and OAN, and you’re not going to know basically anything factual because all of those sources are trash. The same could easily be said for questionable left wing sources too.
It’s one of the most reputable foreign policy publications in the U.S, founded to give an academic counterweight to government statements during the Vietnam War.
It’s not hard to get past paywalls: https://archive.ph/rOXvz
The prompt was to tell me a good thing that I had heard of. I haven’t heard of this. I am European, left-wing, and I’ve been exposed to pretty much everything that one would find in the mainstream news or left-leaning news sites. I’m genuinely open to reconsidering my views here, all you need is one positive thing I’ve heard of in the last 30 years.
I believe I already gave you an example? I explained the source the example was from, and gave a link that got past the paywall.
https://archive.ph/rOXvz
There’s the non-paywalled link again, I guess.
Once again, I told you, I have never heard of this. Is it literally the only thing you can think of? Doesn’t sound that incredibly good to me.
Your line of reasoning is like saying Igbo, Malayalam, or Algonguian doesn’t exist because you haven’t heard of them.
I notice you’re criticising my reasoning rather than providing an example of a good thing the US has done. I wonder why that could be? If I was so unreasonable it would be easy to inundate me, just flood me with half a dozen links of news stories of the United States providing homes to homeless people, or taking a stand against genocide, or cancelling subsidies for fossil fuels. No one is doing that.
Here’s the U.S. investing to create affordable housing in regions across the world.
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Here’s the U.S. taking a stand against a genocide.
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Here’s the U.S. trying to end fossil fuel subsidies.
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Because you started with the precondition that any answer had to be one you had heard of, which is preposterous, how are we supposed to know what you’ve heard of? From the fact that all of the rhetorical questions you asked could’ve been answered with a Google search, it seems you’ve only ever heard of or paid attention to the U.S. doing bad things, which makes finding a good example that you’ve heard of a non-starter.