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The usual delusional propaganda. USA is not letting it “play out”. USA is actively arming and funding genocide and terrorism in several countries.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/
Overall, we rate Reuters Least Biased based on objective reporting and Very High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information with minimal bias and a clean fact check record. (7/10/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 10/10/2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources
Reuters is a news agency. There is consensus that Reuters is generally reliable. Syndicated reports from Reuters that are published in other sources are also considered generally reliable. Press releases published by Reuters are not automatically reliable.
The US is supplying the bombs that are being used to indescriminantly murder civilians though.
Still not propaganda.
yeah it is, it’s uncritically reporting what the administration is saying, justifying the war even, despite the fact that they obviously control the reins on this mad dog - they could cut off weapons at any time.
The US strategy has not changed despite the headline, it has always been to let the atrocities play out
I see no justifications of the war in the article. Sounds like the issue is that it doesn’t say the things you’d prefer?
The administration is saying the justifications, the stenographers of empire are the ones uncritically reporting them.
Do you really need me to spell it out?
Now, U.S. officials have dropped their calls for a ceasefire, arguing that circumstances have changed. “We do support Israel launching these incursions to degrade Hezbollah’s infrastructure so ultimately we can get a diplomatic resolution,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a press briefing earlier this week. The course change reflects conflicting U.S. goals - containing the ever-growing Middle East conflict while also severely weakening Iran-backed Hezbollah.
The new approach is both practical and risky.
We love a practical warmonger 🤩🤩🤩
The article is not justifying the war, and I won’t entertain unsourced speculation as though it is fact. It is not propaganda.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com
Ignoring corroborating opinions from Wikipedia…
Ah yes I forgot Wikipedia isn’t trustworthy here either.
Wikipedia has never been a trust worthy source, it’s a tertiary source like hearsay. You can’t use it directly, technically you shouldn’t use it’s sources directly. Doing either will get any academic paper just completely disqualified.
It’s propaganda by the US government, not by Reuters. Reuters is accurately reporting the US government’s stated position.
Why doesn’t Reuters say it’s state propaganda then?
Okay after taking another look at the article it’s not even propaganda. The US will let Israel fight Hezbollah with no change in US-Israeli relations. That’s the only possible meaning of “let the conflict play out” here. Their reporting isn’t misleading in any way.
In the long run we the USA are going to be fucked by this.
And in the short run if this is what wins Trump the election, which is not unlikely.
Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. Middle East negotiator, said Washington had little hope of restraining Israel and saw potential benefits in the operation.
Washington has little desire to restrain Israel, or else it would have stopped sending weapons a year ago. This can be ended with a phone call; we know because it’s been done before: NYT, 1982: Reagan Demands End to Attacks in A Blunt Telephone Call to Begin
Citations Needed podcast:
- 2017: Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire: “Stumbling”, “sliding”, “drawn into” war––the media frequently assumes the US is bumbling its way around the world. The idea that the United States operates in “good faith” is taken for granted for most of the American press while war is always portrayed as something that happens to the US, not something it seeks out.
- 2021: News Brief - Colin Powell: Stumbling Empire Personified: In this News Brief, we recap the recap of Powell’s life, from the handwringing over his Iraq War UN speech to the erasure of his role in covering up My Lai massacre to training rightwing death squads in Central America and the central importance of “Good Intentions” when venerating our beloved, bipartisan war-makers.
