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Obviously there’s a proxy war between russia and the west in ukraine, but I don’t think the US wants a long attritional war.

They could have done more to not end up in one, but I think escalation management really is driving a lot of decisions in washington.

Thank you this kind of comment is why I come here.

Yeah but presumably the parent in the M1 has a spouse operating a surveillance drone to provide real time fire child correction?

I generally recoil from comparing biden to putin but this really requires russian levels of post-truth politics.

Israel is committing war crimes like trump commits all his crimes - openly, in public and shielded by US elites.

It’s called Corditini

said to get a ”key" to heaven if they fought in the war

Wow. That’s such a different kind of lie than the ones we tell people to get them to enlist.

“the West is coming for us” … they don’t care about the details.

Surely they at least care about the correct direction.

East =/= West.

Why are they including their invasion of Ukraine, Napoleon’s Russian invasion AND the period of Mongol dominance over the Rus? Is Putin claiming the Mongolian conquest of Kievan Rus as a military accomplishment of Russia?

That code is to computer porn as the Hunt the Wumpus is to computer games.

Tell you what, that crack is really moreish!

That episode, with Mark’s friend who plays core englaise in the BNP band is one of my favorite episodes of television.

For any other super hans fans, if you’ve not seen Withnail and I the drug dealer character in that was a major influence on hans.

Boeing is an important part of our military industrial base and thus an important part of the broader structure of US power.

That’s why they’re allowed to kill whistleblowers without repercussion.

Why spend 2% at offense when you can spend 3% at nothing of any use?

Oh, this looks interesting! Written by… malcom turnball? No thank you.

Yep, Israel is too dependent an ally in a region vital to our interests. The Senate is loyal to the Empire, if not the Emperor.

peasants not liking

I’m slightly less skeptical - I think the castle is slightly concerned and we may see some tangential policy concessions, like that delay on Palestinian deportations. Mostly we’ll get a lot more public pretending I expect.

Lol that’s like asking for evidence that the daily mail is a tabloid.

NYT is just a mouthpiece of the US empire, but SCMP is the official forum for china to troll english language speakers.

Why shoot up a public concert hall if your enemy is Putin and not the general public.

Why do any extremists - or russia, the US or israel for that matter - target violence towards civilians?

Maybe they believe the cause is worth it, the tactical calculus still comes out in their favour, or they just hate all russians? General destabilization? Forcing the state to devote more resources to protecting soft civilian infrastructure. Making people feel unsafe. Inspiring similar atrocities. The logic of tactically deploying murder isn’t always clear to an outsider, especially before we have a firm idea who did this.

I strongly doubt this is an “honest-to-goodness sign of revolution”. Shooting concert-goers is obviously not that. But I don’t think it’s logically sound to rule out an anti-putin motivation just because civilians were killed.

Of course, putin is not above killing russians if it benefits him. But russia has plenty of natural sources of potential extremist violence. As climate change and resource scarcity pile increasing pressure on individual humans and whole societies, events like this become more common.

Sometimes, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it might just be a duck.

Let’s at least wait to see what putin does in response before we jump up and down shouting about putin’s 1999 apartment bombings.

He was 100% killed by boeing.

Either they had him professionally killed or their treatment of him was a major contributing factor to his suicide.

When the powerful decide to target, marginalize and gaslight individuals, they are fully aware that piling on stressors can break a person and solve the problem via suicide.

No we don’t. If you already oppose the horror there’s no need to see it for yourself. If you support it then yes, you should have the courage to face what you support.

I’m hoping for an interview with an Etruscan king on why Italy has no distinct culture of it’s own.