US Vice President JD Vance made it clear that the West wants to keep poor Global South countries trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies.

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    Just like the Signal thing where they mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, the real issue for most of the upper echelons of the media and political classes isn’t that they’re funding a genocide and bombing Yemen (this should in fact be supported fully), it’s that they didn’t follow proper comms protocols and goofed their opsec. It looks bad! What’s worse than looking bad while managing empire? To them, nothing.

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      I did notice the astounding lack of empathy in the original article. Not a word about the Yemen bombing! And then there’s this chat where he’s celebrating the fact the entire building collapsed to catch one guy meeting his girlfriend. Not a word of condemnation, not a hint that this is perhaps a bit inhumane, or the callous language used by these assholes, nothing! Just whining that they ‘made us look bad’ and he called the EU freeloaders. Libs look at literal dehumanisation and go ‘but he insulted the EU!’ It’s a pathological lack of empathy.