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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged this week to go after "far-right" critics both at home and abroad, following his recent White House summit with President Trump. The move has raised alarm among U.S. officials over potential infringement on free expression and transnational repression tactics.

Lee met with Trump on Aug. 25 at the White House to discuss trade, defense, shipbuilding and other strategic issues. But tensions were visible — Lee stayed at a hotel instead of the traditional Blair House, was greeted by lower-level officials, and left without attending a formal state dinner.

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[-] july@leminal.space 82 points 1 day ago

Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Seems like USA is losing any allies it had left

You say losing, I say actively driving them away.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago
[-] Psycoder@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sleep with the dogs. Wake up with the fleas.

Donald Trump is the only republican president to win popular in more than 3 decades. Whatever is happening, and whatever is to come, we deserve it.

With that being said, Donald Trump was easy to beat in both elections. He won because democratic party is not a political party, but a private entity. Yes, democratic party itself has argued at the court that it was a private entity.

The first time Trump won, he won because democrats cheated to run Hillary Clinton, a politician that is seen as corrupt.

The second time he won, the democrats did not even have a proper primary.

Long story short, democrats fought harder against Bernie Sanders, than Donald Trump. I am done with voting democrat. I don't care what happens.

P.S. AI bots and paid online trolls, you can reply below telling me how democrats are more innocent than Jesus himself and how they have never done any wrong.

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

How could the Democratic party be anything other than a private entity? In the US the political parties are private entities distinct and separate from the government, it would be weird if they tried to argue otherwise in court. Having the parties as private entities seems a lot less risky and problematic so I am really curious what bothers you about it and how you imagine a system where they were not private could work.

[-] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 day ago

I can see that

ICE raid at Hyundai plant

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

They don't want allies. They want colonies.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

They don't want colonies either I don't think. I believe they want a disparate collection of democratic players to be at odds because "they" is Russia and when democracy is away, Russia will play.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

“they” is Russia

Legions of shitty racist American policymakers screening " Russia made us do it"

[-] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago
[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, Russia doesn’t have a election every four years that exposes the bipolar nature of Americans they have just had Putin for 30+ to fight ideals, what the hell are you talking about?

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Is the usa finally paying for all the coups and countries it destroyed?

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