Hey frustrated friend, I’ve been commenting in this thread in your support, trying to give you a more experienced perspective on this community. But as it stands, my instance lemmy.ml has been defederated from your instance infosec.pub, so you’re not able to see any posts or comments from that instance (although it’s the main dev instance).

Here’s a link to your comment thread via the lemmy.world instance where you can see all comments.
Early on I tried to warn you, that you will not get any kind of open or constructive discussion in this community and as it turned out, looking at the ending of your conversation with Wildmimic (which himself has blocked the lemmy.ml instance, so he couldn’t see any of my commentary either), and the tangential discussions I provoked, I think sadly I’ve been proven right.
In my comments I also provided you with some ideas on where to get good information about the geopolitics of this war, explicitly non-communist, as the political thought of Marxism is not needed to deconstruct the dynamics (although, it’s the best approach over all, but that’s just my experience).

Ya, anyway, just wanted to let you know. Doesn’t matter if you care or not, but now you got the full picture of the conversation. Have a nice day and don’t let you get dragged down by these people, you’ve done nothing wrong.

Not ML, but you mean like that? Glad I could help.

Point three is just you freestyling thoughts now. I just read of the Laconia Incendent and besides how fucking grim all of this is, ya, there actually are more honorable procedures and lengths to go through, other than straight up and purposely killing everyone. But that‘s just not how the US rolls.

Volant Media is strongly biased towards the west and not a trustworthy source.

The world’s leading news networks on Iran and Afghanistan

From our studios in London and Washington, and supported by a global correspondent network, we deliver editorially independent news and analysis. We cover breaking news, finance, sports, and documentaries, reaching over 100 million viewers.

They‘re also absolutely intransparent in regards to their funding.

The channel is backed by a Saudi-British investor with ties to the Saudi government, According to The Guardian, Saudi Arabia has provided a 250-million-dollar fund for Iran International in 2018, but Iran International’s management claims the independence of its editorial operation and denies a link to any government.

And here we see a civilized Westener once again setting the bar of morality for the Barbarians from the Orient, after, while and before he continues to rape them and their lands because of their racial inferiority, because they just won‘t obey and subordinate.

You should have disengaged the second the dissonance in your brain kicked in — now you are the one with the desperate word salad. Take the L, work on your ego and your ideological bias.

Because it didn‘t perform as envisioned. It‘s an economic decision and got nothing to do with Uyghurs. You can read that in the WSJ sources the report itself relies on.

The German company’s presence in Xinjiang has long attracted attention in the West. Under pressure from investors and the German and U.S. governments, VW conducted an audit of the Urumqi plant, which it said last year found no evidence of human-rights abuses.

(…) After the pandemic hit, however, operations at the plant started to wind down and the factory no longer assembles vehicles.

The “proof” is “attracted attention in the West” and “under pressure from investors” - and then it found no such proof in the factory.

Why the wind down? Mentioned in the linked article from the year before:

His visit also highlighted Volkswagen’s other problem with the plant: It has fallen short of big plans the company and its joint-venture partner, the Shanghai government-owned SAIC Motor Corp., initially had for it.

“The business model has changed. There is currently no production of our own,” Mr. Brandstätter said this week after the first visit in nearly two years by a Volkswagen senior executive to the site. Chip-supply issues, as well as China’s Covid-19 curbs, contributed to the joint venture downsizing its workforce by almost two-thirds in recent years.

That time Brandstätter also said he saw nothing. Now, I’m not inclined to believe what some capitalist corpo guy says about working conditions, but this whole thing is obviously political pressure, because Germany does not want their big manufacturing corpos so deeply involved in China, as it draws capital and jobs away from the country, the whole Uyghur angle is used as a reason to build pressure.

The report asserts: “Global scrutiny of supply chains linked to Xinjiangfactories resulted in Volkswagen’s exit from Urumqi”, which is not true or if so only in the sense that the pressure resulted in the closure, but not actual abuses.

This is also clear, when you check other linked articles, for example under “a source of criticism in Germany”, which is a union leader lamenting about exactly that and also using the same age old allegations as an argument that are used every time, although economic interests are the real reason he opened his mouth in the first place.

Later in the report even notorious discredited one-man-source Adrian Zenz, ideologue and religious extremist himself is being used as source for their judgement. It’s a sham. It’s political propaganda.

This whole little one-page “report” does not bring anything new to the table. They made up some criteria and released a report towards the end of the year, so the myth is being kept alive and accounts like Hotznplotzn, that do literally nothing else other then posting Anti-China and Anti-Russia propaganda, can rile you up and manufacture consent against them.

Stop being so gullible. There is no new proof for anything. It’s a rehash to gain attention. OP is right.