World News
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
view the rest of the comments
Mate, I hope you're the first one to win the lottery when they enact the draft since you clearly have no appreciation of the lives lost by your allies over the two decades of pointless war in the middle east. From what I've been told, the US marines needed to have their hands held by allied equivalents since they were so dumb. Americans couldn't even figure out on their own that if you're driving a convoy through enemy territory at night, it might behoove you to turn off the lights lmao. Story from a primary source that I don't have in writing unfortunately, but it was a good laugh. Good luck surviving without any allied help, hope the USAF packs enough diapers.
Much like 9/11 was caused by the US itself, the IRGC is ruling Iran begause of the US (and yes, also the UK). So it's again you guys who created the mess in the first place and then you decided to take stab the hornets nest and complain that nobody is helping you this time, when you are clearly not appreciative of the help last time around. Iran wasn't doing shit outside of occasionally standing up against the zionists, till Trump decided he could do a 3 day special military operation and make everything groovy again.
Some 40 countries still had personnel in Afghanistan in 2021 when the withdrawal took place. Both NATO and non-NATO allies of the US. That's two decades of support in what was an American fuckup in the first place (CIA literally created Bin Laden and guess who propped up the Taliban in the first place). Look up Operation Resolute Support.
Fact of the matter is, even though only two operations happened under article 5, most NATO member countries continued to assist voluntarily out of a sense of duty to our allies - unfortunately that's something Americans seem to lack these days.
Hey Rainbolt, I'm not USian and never stepped foot in an English-speaking country. So keep hoping.
Why fellate Trump like that then lmao
You think Trump was the president in 2001? Good god, you really need to learn some history.
You're just trying to justify his talking points lol.
Idk who was president of the US in 2001 in your version of history, but in mine it was Bush and he asked for more allied troops in 2008, why would he do that if they'd been so useless the prior 7 years? Should've just sent only American troops then.
There were times during his first term when his administration was pissed at other NATO members, yes, but the actual reason had nothing to do with the Europeans' fighting capabilities. It was more about disagreements over whether the US should get to dictate things unilaterally, as well as some countries outright declaring they wouldn't join the Iraq invasion.
Also, both General Franks and SECDEF Rumsfeld are largely credited with the strategic failures in the early part of the Afghanistan war. It's literally why both were driven into retirement even though Rumsfeld wanted to keep Franks around and Bush wanted to keep Rumsfeld around. Much of the Anti-European sentiment in the early 00s US military brass came from those two.
Trump's talking points is that neither USians nor NATOans should be entitled to spinning bullshit on the web? Wow, that's an incredible discovery. The Nobel prize should probably be awarded to you for such an earth-shaking revelation.
Ah, I see you're out of arguments because your bullshit is so transparent. Bye bye