Covert Action Magazine is worth a look. This article is a scathing overview of the Western propaganda machine. An excerpt: https://covertactionmagazine.com/20...watching-u-s-news-or-reading-foreign-affairs/ The Yemeni “Peace Process” is a Sham Though You Wouldn’t Know That From Watching U.S. News or Reading Foreign Affairs Media and intellectual elites continue to add spin to dignify a criminal war of aggression that has resulted in unconscionable suffering among the Yemeni people. In April 2022, a temporary truce was signed between the warring parties in Yemen, which ended in October, though fragments of it are still operational.[1] The truce in no way addressed the crystal clear causes of mass death, starvation and aggression in Yemen—namely, Western-Arab aggression and brute force. But the so-called “truce” nevertheless had its clear effects: It allowed for the coalition of powerful Arab and Western countries attacking Yemen to radically expand and enhance occupation, military advancement and plundering (as well as for them a largely irrelevant bonus of somewhat alleviated civilian casualties, useful for their PR purposes). The media reporting about the truce and its implementation one year after its implementation teaches us a great deal about how refined propaganda works to achieve violent state goals, with justice and legality entirely disregarded. In approaching this topic, we must remember that, when two of the leading propaganda systems—the Western and Eastern—agree in their propaganda, it is overwhelmingly difficult to break free from its illusions.
I haven't followed this closely. There are too many things going on in the world right now, but my understanding was that the peace agreement in Yemen was negotiated by China in conjunction with an Irani-Saudi agreement on oil prices and production to reduce the flow of oil to the West, at least at low prices. The mention of the Foreign Legion could be part of Macron's visit to China recently. No one on the surface knows what that was really about, and Xi made it clear with his body language who was in charge at that series of meetings. It is a wait-and-see situation, but thanks for bringing it up in context.
There are too many things going on in the world right now, Tell me about it. The Chinese negotiated process was a success, I think. I was confused too but I think the peace process referred to is an earlier one initiated by western countries that was designed to fail. I'm not sure, though. I'll research it a little.
The Chinese seem to be stepping into the role that we used to play, which was revived a good deal under the previous administration, but this group at the top seem to be anti-American at their core, totally incompetent in their jobs, or both. The world is unravelling around us and the only response anyone gets who actually asks a non-scripted question is, "I/We don't know" or they get shouted down and told to stay in their place as a propaganda arm of the government.
My short research revealed that I don't understand what is going on, other than that the less the West and the UN are involved, the better things go. The paradigm of divide and conquer applies here, with the West exacerbating the tensions between Shia and Sunni to gain cheaper oil resources. Yemen deserves some relief from war and the USA being branded as the global bogeyman seems less a fantasy than ever. I love my country but I also love reality.