The documents show the fallout for the US in Bahrain, Indonesia and Azerbaijan as it struggles to catch up with pro-Iran messaging.
The Iran war is risking America’s global security ties and damaging its reputation, especially among the world’s Muslims, according to a set of State Department cables obtained by POLITICO.
The cables, dated Wednesday, described the fallout of the war for America’s standing in three countries in different parts of the world: Bahrain, Azerbaijan and Indonesia.
U.S. diplomats at embassies in the countries’ capitals painted damning portraits of an America under siege in multiple media spheres by pro-Iranian actors that are exceptionally agile in the digital space.
Okay, I’m trying to be as nice as I can about this, but most of the world legitimately doesn’t give a shit about anything you just said. Why would someone from Africa or South Asia or South America care what America or China allow to happen in their own borders? Do you seriously think the “freedoms” afforded to Americans but American law mean anything to an Iraqi whose life was and remains defined by the fallout from American imperialism? That’s not how modern empires work; neither China nor America are going to treat a third party anything like they treat their own citizens, and in a comparison of how they treat others’ citizens China has nothing that can top this. Your appeals to tiny steps and corruption aren’t just meaningless; they’re outright insulting to the hundreds of millions of lives that were ruined by America around the world.