UNSC Watch: India Joins Russia, China in Disputing OPCW's Latest Report on Syria
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The OPCW has claimed that a Syrian Air Force helicopter had dropped at least one cylinder of chlorine gas on the town of Saraqib on the night of February 4, 2018.
  • banbyanarchoveganmod [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    hey this is kinda a big deal. bump this to shove it in the anti-grayzone's faces. imagine being this one indie journo guy that gets placed in a security council meeting to spit a case for the russian ambassador and ending up with the indian delegation agreeing with the chinese and russians blank in the face of their quad allies and a very agitated america. incredible, big feather in the hat for the whole grayzone clique. idgaf who traveled to rt galas in moscow when, if you manage to flip india in a security council call you are solid as gold

  • LibsEatPoop3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Who’s Mr. Maté? I only see some guy named Naidu. And could you elaborate on the significance of this? India’s in a complex position where its key objectives are to counter Pakistan and China. For this it conducts deal with US, France, Israel. But it also maintains/tries to maintain close ties with Russia, Iran etc. And China is a huge trading partner for India already which just further complicates the actions India can take. So...I don’t really get what the article is trying to say.

    • banbyanarchoveganmod [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      is this your usual leftcom grift? you know perfectly well aaron mate of grayzone fame. this article refers to a unsc working meeting in which mate is called in by the russian delegate to make the case of the douma chemical attack being forgery. The indian delegation makes noises wildly contrary to their general motions in the geopolitical landscape, in declaring the latest opcw report on syria as "falling short" on standards of neutrality and integrity, effectively adding a hugely important and flagrantly unexpected voice in support of the dissenting left regarding the chemical weapons allegations against assad. Your airbrushing about china and pakistan is irrelevant here. this is a case of diplomatic leverage shifting in assad's favour in respect to the indian delegation's standard of ethics trumping it's otherwise pro-western partisanship

      • LibsEatPoop3 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I have no idea why you’re being hostile.

        I’d read through the article and not seen any mention of someone names “Mate” or of Grayzone. Which is why I asked.

        I talked about Pakistan and China and the broader Indian geopolitical situation because the article talks about stuff like that - Russia saying Quad is anti-China, India’s different positions in different international treaties/committees etc.