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Media is reporting on this all of a sudden and I'm a bit out of the loop. What's happening?

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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I am honestly amazed that nobody seems to care about this at all, considering how big the stakes are and the populations at risk. South Asia is really the worlds blind spot for news. Even as someone who does take an interest in the region, I see hardly any coverage.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Conflict between non white people somewhere far away with no real left wing threat means no interest from western media

See: Sudan, Congo, etc

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Normally I would agree and chalk it up to that, but these are two nuclear armed powers with over a billion lives at stake, yet still, not a peep of interest. The "threat" of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon is constantly fearmongered in the media, yet a conflict where over 300 warheads could be involved seems to go uncovered, the inconsistency is so strange.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'd think it'd be important to them but nope. That's why I can only think of the above conclusion. Like, India has an actual fascist government and some proto apartheids system but you never heard anything about it. If China actually did half the stuff India did you'd never heard the end of it.

Iran poses a threat to the western hegemony and needs to be treated badly. Pakistan and India apparently do not pose such a threat so let them nuke eachother I guess?

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

India is less fascist than any western nation

[–] kasama@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean by that? India's government is very fascistic. Modi is a member of a hindu-supremacist group.

Do you know about a pogrom in 2002 that massacred over 1,000 muslims in Gujarat? Modi led the state of Gujarat at the time, and he encouraged the pogrom, the glorification of nazism in state textbooks.

What else do I need to say?

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Do you know about a pogrom in 2002 that massacred over 1,000 muslims in Gujarat?

He was the chief minister at the time, and yes, Modi is a fascist. But literally every western nation has worse crimes committed.

[–] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Not for lack of trying.

[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

The point being?

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

X is less of a Nazi than Hitler

Very low bar to clear

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