Morocco has received nearly three times more armored vehicles from the United States than allocated to Ukraine
Morocco has received nearly three times more armored vehicles from the United States than allocated to Ukraine | Voice of Europe
Could this be from an agreement/treaty already put in place before Russia's invasion?
USA and Morocco signed a treaty 1786 which remains the longest unbroken relationship in U.S. history, in 2004 Morocco was declared a "Major Non-NATO Ally", and Morocco's military and law enforcement train and work together with their U.S. counterparts.
Or those Russian tanks they had are now freed up to be transported elsewhere.
Original source seems to be from Defense Arabia in Arabic: https://defensearabia.com/2023/11/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AF%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2-%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84/
Well how else could they keep the Saharawi menace at bay and keep their stolen land?
Not quite. Morocco has historical claims to the Western Sahara as well as Mauritania. Morocco was carved up by the Spanish and French during the scramble for Africa in the 19th century. While Morocco eventually gave up its claims to Mauritania it retained the Rif and Western Sahara.
historical claims
That's a bit misleading.
Stolen land? Every single person alive today is on stolen land. The only difference is how recently their ancestors stole it.
Even the first nations of North America stole land from other tribes for a few millenia before the Europeans showed up and stole it all.
The world has never been, and will never be, a static place.
There are plenty of reasons to help out disadvantaged or oppressed groups, ownership of land just isn't one of them.
Contested ownership of land is one of the driving forces behind violent oppression, torture, internment without due process, ethnic cleansing etc etc.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being opposed to this stuff.
Every single person alive today is on stolen land.
Plenty of our ancestors raped people but saying "every single person alive today has DNA from rape" is not a very good reason to support more rape now.
Every single person alive today is on stolen land
Who the Aborigines stole the land from? Or Polynesians?
Well yeah they're a colonial occupying power. Ukraine is just trying to resist one.
Morocco? Or do you mean the US?
Morocco, it runs Africa's last colony, with all the brutality that implies.
The US brokered a deal under the Trump administration where Morocco would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for the US "recognizing their sovereignty" over neighbouring Western Sahara, a mineral rich region.
Background: Western Sahara: the six-decade struggle to liberate Africa’s last colony.
Media bias / fact check for Voice of Europe;
Sure sounds like a source I want to line the litterbox with.
Why do you say that media bias fact check is baseless propaganda?
edit: One of the most left leaning but highly factual news sites I go to is Fair.org. This site is almost always against the major mainstream media consensus, but backs up its claims with lots of high quality reasoning and evidence. MBFC rate it left-center and high factual reporting.
It gives Jacobin, probably one of the biggest left leaning news sites in the US, a left leaning and high factual reporting score. Jacobin calls themselves left leaning, of course. For anyone who knows history, it's right in their name. So what's the problem there?
Meanwhile, it gives all the major right wing news sites poor ratings. Fox News, Breitbart, Epoch times, etc. get an extreme right and Mixed factual reporting score.
So I understand why you would besmirch MBFC if you're some rightwinger. But, from the left, I don't understand. Reality has a left leaning bias.
It's true that MBFC biased but it's consistent with its bias. Just shift their ratings to the right by about a meter then it will be accurate.
Bruh of course a .ml says this shit
As far as I can tell they just translated a Defence Arabia article and cross-referenced it with publicly available information on US deliveries to Ukraine. In another comment, I cited the original article (in Arabic) that they appear to draw from.
I don't care. I'm tired of people submitting bullshit sources and then coming up with a reason as to why it's okay to listen to them just this one time. It drives attention and revenue to those sources, encourages their bad behavior, and normalizes the source as 'sometimes okay' in people's minds, eventually leading people to be less critical and and more susceptible to the bullshit the source wants to spread. Which is EXACTLY how propaganda outlets work.