The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy said that by providing drone support to Israel, Ukraine has “effectively become involved in the war.”

Zelenskyy earlier stated that Kyiv has already deployed interceptor drones and a team of specialists to help protect US military bases in Jordan.

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    7 hours ago

    Yeah, I think the protests are stupid now that I look at why it happened.

    That being said, I still can’t trust you, it’s so hard to get around to the good info when I know you’re actively attempting to use language to manipulate my thinking. Framing them as “riots” when they are acknowledged internationally as mostly peaceful protests.

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      6 hours ago

      The west calls them peaceful, but I gave several examples of how that wasn’t the case. If you feel I am being too biased in my charactrtization to a manipulative degree, I ask that you apply the same scrutiny to, say, BBC’s portrayal of events, including their intentional use of language.

      Being 100% transparent, I am trying to get you to reconsider your position, and part of that is by deliberately using the word “rioter.” This causes you to re-contextualize what you thought you knew more than if I had just said “protestor.” We all have bias, and my bias is pro-communist, and pro-PRC. Just as you try to see how and why I use language, sources, and whatnot to portray how I see the events, I ask that you hold western media to the same degree of scrutiny.

      Finally, bias does not mean the absence of fact. I did my best in recommending largely western sources, if I had just used CGTN it might have been easier but then I would have been taking the easy way out, and just as easily dismissed as only accepting official state media. Bias paints how we percieve the same events, how we speak about them, and connects it to a broader class character.