The Ukrainian president warned airlines, insurers and foreign governments that the growing scale of Kyiv’s drone operations would make Russian airspace increasingly unsafe for aircraft.

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    Which is in fact true

    It does get very tiresome to see people reject decades of Cold War and post-Soviet collapse history, because the (US-backed) fascist dictator of Russia turned on his western handlers.

    Anyway, the general idea for Europe is to take care of Russia, so the US is able to focus on the indo-pacific, meaning China. It‘s the geo-strategic reality of the western block to remain (or regain) world dominance. It‘s capitalism in it‘s highest stage, imperialism.

    Okay, but have you considered that China Bad and we need to save all those good-hearted, liberty-loving, free-market Australians and Philippians and Taiwanese from the oppressive yoke of The Red Dragon?

    It‘s just that most folks on lemmy are basing their political understanding on vibes and what western corporate media tells them.

    Nonsense. I’m immune to propaganda because I’m smart.

    Only you idiot tankies have been fooled.

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      I’m immune to propaganda because I’m smart.

      That’s not how that works. A smart person would recognize that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of immunity. Even if we accept that smarter people are less susceptible to propaganda, there is no threshold of smartness that grants immunity to propaganda.

      The most important service one can provide to a kind-of-smart person is to tell them when they’ve said something stupid. I’m happy to provide this service. Please rate 5 stars.

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        A smart person would recognize that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of immunity.

        And I’m the smartest person, therefore I enjoy the maximum amount of immunity.

        there is no threshold of smartness that grants immunity to propaganda.

        Just be smarter, idiot.

        The most important service one can provide to a kind-of-smart person is to tell them when they’ve said something stupid.

        Impossible for me to say something stupid. It is actually stupid to suggest what I said wasn’t the Immaculate Truth as Delivered By God.

        The only people who would suggest what I said wasn’t stupid are

        a) Idiots

        b) A vast and sinister conspiracy of malicious actors attempting to destroy me, everyone I hold dear, and my country.