Re:'Iranian cyber army' blamed as Wikipedia deletes atrocities
by lupusreal on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:05AM
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Yes, that post is a great oversimplification. For instance, France presumably fits into "The West" but they have considerably more sovereignty than calling them a "US satellite" might lead you to believe.. They are more of a great power themselves than a satellite. And where do you put Brazil? Brazil and India are both in BRICS but neither really seems anti-west, and it seems like a stretch to put Brazil particularly into any of those other categories.
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Re:'Iranian cyber army' blamed as Wikipedia deletes atrocities
by vertis on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:41AM
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Not to nitpick, but it was US-EU-satellite, France falls into the second group not the satellite group. A better example might be Montenegro, or even Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine which have all chosen to head towards the EU (at varying speeds).
Australia, NZ, Japan, and South Korea are potentially better examples of direct US satellites. They still have plenty of sovereignty, and their own cultures, but would I suspect, end up in difficult place if US vanished in the blink of an Eye.
A lot, but not all, of it is shared values around democracy. In a lot of ways the US doesn't actually lead this at all. It's the biggest player on the block, sure, but not the best example.