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Israel

“Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America. This is a huge victory! In true friendship,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on social media platform X.

Iran

The livelihoods of Iranians will not be affected by the US election, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran.

“The US elections are not really our business. Our policies are steady and don’t change based on individuals. We made the necessary predictions before and there will not be change in people’s livelihoods,” she said.

Hamas

Trump’s victory puts to test his earlier statements that he can stop the war in Gaza within hours, Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told the Reuters news agency. The Democratic party’s loss is the natural price for its leadership’s “criminal stance” towards Gaza, Abu Zuhri said, adding that “we urge Trump to learn from [US President Joe] Biden’s mistakes.”

China

“Our policy towards the US is consistent,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a news briefing.
“We will continue to view and handle China-US relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation,” she added.

Ukraine

“I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X.

United Kingdom

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, “Congratulations President-elect Trump on your historic election victory. I look forward to working with you in the years ahead. As the closest of allies, we stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.”

NATO

Secretary-General Mark Rutte: “I just congratulated Donald Trump on his election as President of the United States. His leadership will again be key to keeping our Alliance strong. I look forward to working with him again to advance peace through strength through NATO.”

European Union

“The EU and the US are more than just allies. We are bound by a true partnership between our people, uniting 800 million citizens,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “So let’s work together on a strong transatlantic agenda that keeps delivering for them.”

India

Congratulating Trump on a “historic election victory”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X that “as you build on the successes of your previous term, I look forward to renewing our collaboration to further strengthen the India-US Comprehensive Global and Strategic Partnership.”

Russia

“Trump has one useful quality for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on and stupid hanger-on allies, on bad charity projects and on voracious international organisations,” former President Dmitry Medvedev posted on the Telegram messaging app.

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 months ago

“I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X.

[–] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Goodbye United States of America. I weep for everyone everywhere.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nothing of value will be lost

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Only millions of people that were simply born in the wrong place. Only a world superpower potentially turning into an autocratic regime in support of other tyrants.

But sure, other than the existential threat of the largest exporter of culture and most powerful military on earth in a country that has a history of imperialism and warmongering falling under the control of an autocratic regime of fascists, sure. Nothing of value.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is not like we had a genocide under the Democrats...

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you don't think Trump will actively accelerate that you're deluding yourself.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

And whose fault the genocide lasted until the next president? it is not like the Biden administration vetoed two ceasefires at the UN.

[–] baggins 3 points 2 months ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Israel “Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America. This is a huge victory! In true friendship,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on social media platform X.

So in other words, a Trump win makes things even worse for Gaza. Where have I heard that before?? 🤔

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

Fascists like fascists.

[–] dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh I think you'll just need to wait a short while to see whether that statement is true.

[–] dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope, genocide is genocide. If you support and enable a little, you enable all of it. It doesn't stop. Under Biden Israel and the US have expanded their genocide from just Palestinians to all nearby arabs. Trump will allow further expansion, the dem elected after Trump with expand it further, until the US is destroyed or fascism wins and the global world government resulting from it is destroyed.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Well thank goodness we elected the leader who can't be reasoned with instead of the one who might have been able to be reasoned with. Plus now we can get all the domestic abuse we can eat, which we'd have skipped out on entirely with Harris.

[–] dontgooglefinderscult@lemmings.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why do you people think you could negotiate with Harris? Biden and the Dems leadership have done nothing but override popular positions. The beloved vp of the Harris campaign, the most progressive actual dem to ever run for that position, fucking called the military on civilians instead of doing anything about police brutality in his state.

Also if you're willing to accept genocide on the idea you might be spared if you do, you're a Nazi. That was the Nazi excuse. "We need to kill them so we can be spared."

[–] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Biden could be reasoned with then? That's what's implied here? 1 year and one month of genocide were not enough to reason with anyone in the democratic party. There was nothing Netanyahu asked for and didn't get, but somehow it wasn't bad enough for you people. There ya go

[–] itsoctober@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

the one who might have been able to be reasoned with

You misunderstand the Democrats' foreign policy if you think this.

Read a few books on international relations by members of the Biden-Harris administration and their mentors, friends, and predecessors. They are ideologically committed to US supremacy and hegemony internationally, at whatever cost. Broadly, this ideological tendency is called liberal (as in capitalist) internationalism and it is about preserving the "rules based" international order in which the U.S. is explicitly to remain indefinitely as the world's sole hegemonic power. In this world view, the US is in the unique position of being able to be the arbiter of world affairs, due to its post-WII economic and military might and advantageous geographical position (easy access to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and lack of powerful neighbors) providing the US an unprecedented ability to govern worldwide. This supposedly makes the US the "only" world power capable of preserving international "peace" so long as no rival power is allowed to rise, particularly in Eurasia. The rise of a rival power to US hegemony is seen as a disastrous outcome because it will (supposedly) plunge the world back into WWI-style chaos. Overall, in their view, "order" (unipolarity) is superior to "chaos" (multipolarity), and "US-led order" is superior to all other forms of order, as in their view the US-led order is the only order capable of enforcing world peace, which they absurdly claim is what the US has been doing all this time since WWII.

One of the reasons they hate Trump so much is that he's not from this ideological school; he's an opportunist first and foremost and therefore has a chaotic effect on this US-dominated international order's strategic imperatives. Trump can only be reasoned with on the basis of his opportunism, which will basically follow the whims of himself and his cronies, whatever those whims may be. The liberal internationalists can only be reasoned with in the framework of the long-term viability of US global hegemony, and their behaviors and goals are relatively more predictable as they have their own body of theory explaining all of that, which we can read (for example in the works of Brzezinski of the Carter administration, or Blinken of the current administration). To them, Trump is like a drunk driver who grabbed the wheel of the empire, because of his "America First" policies which they regard as short-sighted in that they play on various populist demands while ignoring and in some regards rejecting international "responsibility" of managing world affairs and suppressing rivals, (potentially) endangering the empire's long-term stability. He messes up their timetables, finances, and commitments, that's really the only thing about him they truly can't abide. The fascist society he wants at home is the one they already created for others abroad, and which already has long existed for many at home regardless. Their "fear" is that the system of global US dominance they created will crash before they can get it back on track. They really do not care about the fascism part, which will not really affect them like it affects normal citizens.

This is all to say that "reasoning" with Democrats over Gaza would always have been impossible. Throughout the decades, they have dragged their feet on the issue, shedding a crocodile tear or two when the situation looks too bloody in the international spotlight, making tactical concessions occasionally, but all ultimately with a long-term strategy of allowing Palestine to be gradually whittled down, in which their ideal is that Palestinians stop resisting and Israel is ultimately triumphant in its suppression of Palestinian sovereignty and the issue conveniently "goes away" forever, a past tragedy they can pretend to be sad about while enjoying some newfound financial flexibility when it comes to the costs of maintaining and upgrading their unsinkable aircraft carrier Israel. Blinken didn't give a damn about Palestinians in 1982, he essentially wrote that even though Israel was aiding a bit of massacres here and there it was still just a baby democracy that needs our support, and surely "someday" would be held accountable for its excesses. And now? Blinken is Secretary of State, giving Netanyahu a hug and requesting more funds for genocide and dressing his kid up as Zelensky for a Halloween party the next day. With people like this peppering every Dem administration's top leadership for decades, whose careers all began long ago and whose records of views and behaviors are there for all of us to see, and likewise with their neocon friends, cousins, and business partners in every Republican administration salivating over war with Iran, the prospects of "reasoning" with any of them over Palestine are pretty much zero.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Harris? reasoned with? I'm sure you said the same about Biden and we got a genocide in the end.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Biden was already genociding them. Before you blame Trump, don't forget Biden could have stopped it at any time and chose not to.

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 35 points 2 months ago

We are our own devils and we make this world our hell.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hamas

Trump’s victory puts to test his earlier statements that he can stop the war in Gaza within hours, Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told the Reuters news agency. The Democratic party’s loss is the natural price for its leadership’s “criminal stance” towards Gaza, Abu Zuhri said, adding that “we urge Trump to learn from [US President Joe] Biden’s by

Yeah, that's not gonna go the way you think it is....
If they thought the arms shipments coming in before were fucking their day up....

The only reason Israel might not glass Gaza when Trump takes power is that they want to move people in after the "unclean" have been erased.

[–] Cuttlersan 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This! And the fcking idiots who used their votes to throw a temper tantrum about Harris/Walz’s stance on Gaza are in a high likelihood of having violence enacted against them in the states or flat-out getting deported. Like they were always high on the target list, do they not remember Trump’s muslim ban? Again, stupid fking idiots who slit their own throats in protest so they could get the shoes of the people they’re angry at messy. What they’ve done is ineffective, beyond short-sighted, and self-harming. Guess we get to see if Israel decides to rip down Al-Aqsa, replace it with a Third Temple now. Wouldn’t put it past them.

[–] The_Sasswagon 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't blame the left for the failings of the moderate right. Just like Biden before her, Harris spent the campaign appealing to theoretical disenfranchised Republicans and confidently ignoring the calls for action from the left. She even abandoned some of Bidens more left leaning campaign promises along the way (her climate policy was a clear back step). On top of that we had no primary, which however flawed, shapes the campaign in the image of the some voters and solidifies support for the candidate.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the two candidates were equivalent, but it is easy to see why people might be feeling disenfranchised and might just not vote, and elect instead to hide from it all.

Anecdotally, I stopped engaging with election news around the dem primary, when everyone was very excited, so I could vote for Harris without thinking about the baggage that would come later. It was all just overwhelming, and I'd call myself a pretty engaged and resilient voter normally.

All that to say, remember the humans who voted or didnt are the ones with ethics and empathy. I'm not sure you can say the same about the ones who voted for the fascist.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it is easy to see why people might be feeling disenfranchised and might just not vote

And now they get to see the results of their letting perfect get in the way of good.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

What is with this "They" pansy-ass scapegoat bullshit I keep seeing from all these political extremism comments?

Harris would have written a strongly worded letter, trump will write a supportive tweet. Both had the same policy on Gaza and Israel.

Thats what you people fail to understand. Genocide doesn't get better. There isn't a lesser evil option that contains genocide.

Biden is a genocidal fascist. Harris promised to be a genocidal fascist for the majority of her campaign. Trump is a genocidal fascist.

You're just angry you might also be a victim, instead of the browns you think are too stupid, too subhuman, to understand their words and actions.

[–] averyminya 2 points 2 months ago

The issue isn't how people used their votes. The issue is that 20 million people didn't show up to vote.

With the math available, every single Democratic voter could have voted 3rd party and Trump would still have won. Third party voters had little to no effect on this election, outside of those who were swaying to say don't vote at all. 50 to 100 thousand third party votes from each state just don't make the numbers needed for the E.C. votes.

We needed voters, period. They didn't show up.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I am Brazilian and I react to this by saying: "You, United-Statesians mess up, then the shit goes to the sewer and fall on us."

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe this time we can improve our reflex and dodge this shit like Neo

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

Not a bad idea!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

At least the war in Ukraine might come to an end. As for Arabs and Muslims we already got a genocide with Biden, Trump can only increase the intensity of it but who knows what the crazy maniac will do.

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[–] baggins 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't say all of them. This is a great day for Putin and Netanyahu.

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