The original point is that junta is exclusively used in the news to refer to ones the government doesn’t like, and other juntas that are allied get called governments, so the term gets negative connotations and can be used to imply bad things while technically the text’s literal meaning is neutral, so impartiality complaints won’t stick.
Ah that’s weird, what’s the Western backed ISIS group currently controlling Syria through a military dictatorship named in Western media again?
Since the United States is ruled by the Commander-in-Chief of the military, it too is ruled by a junta 🤔
Double standards of the liberal media as usual.
Yep it’s a junta, too. It’s not that hard.
The original point is that junta is exclusively used in the news to refer to ones the government doesn’t like, and other juntas that are allied get called governments, so the term gets negative connotations and can be used to imply bad things while technically the text’s literal meaning is neutral, so impartiality complaints won’t stick.
Greece was called a Junta and it was very much not left leaning.
I’m having a very hard time finding articles where the BBC calls it a junta though.
One could wonder why the term is used so consistently in Western media only for adversaries of Western interests.
Hard for the wedtoids though.