Cowardly tactics

So hiding the fact they use Palantir, not hiding their work by using it?

(The title is ambiguous)

Thus suffers from the same problem “Adolescence” did; the writing and role is believable enough and the actor looks like they could be as despicable… but then you somehow don’t believe the actor to be that big of a cunt.

Joffrey doesn’t suffer from that, Jack Gleeson is such a brilliant actor I never doubted he could be such a massive cunt. But I know he isn’t. But he made me believe it.

Like Eddie and the kid in Adolescence both have too much humanity showing through.

Now that you mention, yeah, he does.

To disregard their existence is to pretend they don’t matter at all, which is incredibly naive.

There’s no perfect compliance, no, but if they weren’t respected at all and had no effect, the situations would be different.

For instance yeah, Russia has apparently brought out WWI style choking agents and used them. But there’s no widespread use at least, and no mustard gas. Which would be more effective for Russia to do. But they don’t, as they want to keep plausible deniability so that Europe doesn’t gain an actual reason to mount an offensive.

So yeah, while you are right in that psychotic asshats don’t care about them, they are affected by them nonetheless.

Basically ROE says that medics shouldn’t be shot, but my brother trained as a medic and one of the first things they’ve we’re unofficially taught was to hide their crosses on the battlefield, as Russians would literally aim at medics. (Finnish army.)

Mmm, not really.

You can’t just slaughter civilians willy nilly. Well, you can, obviously, as shown by what’s going on in the world, but international laws say you shouldn’t.

Iran could legally intern any Americans, but civilians wouldn’t still be POW’s. And should technically have rights and whatnot.

“Israeli foreign minister indirectly threatens a foreign ambassador who’s spoken out against the genocide”

Yeah the message here is pretty clear.

Idk man, seems like it’s kinda more destroyed now, tbh.

Also, I don’t know about that being a western opinion per se. I chatted with a ~50y old Persian guy some 15 years ago, and he was saying much the same as the guy you replied to.

That’s why he left as I understood it. Well ‘twasn’ t the only reason, but still.

Ah yes “NATO pls if you’ll just surrender and go away, we pinky-promise not be bad anymore”

With Operation Spider’s Web, (and Russia trying to launch massive counterattacks against civilian populations and still only managing to kill only two people) is showing that Russia might not have as strong of a position as they think they do.

Thanks.

I’ve had training. And I’m not talking about my military training, but the several years I spent in customer service.

Ukraine soldiers are trained for 3 months. There can’t be much infrastructure needed for an attack since the battle is on enemy territory when it starts.

Dude. Stop. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and every addition is making it more cringe.

I have the training to train basic jaegers in two weeks. Those are the simple infantry for the front. More specialised soldiers, like NCO’s, especially specialist NCO’s like me, take far longer to train. You know in strategy games it takes longer and costs more to churn our specialised soldiers?

Imagine that you have a league of legends/starcraft/CIV game going and at more than halfway through you decide to just sell all your units and pivot entirely? How would that ever make sense in any game, if not as some weird YouTube challenge? No actual pro-player would ever try something as silly.

That’s a rhetorical example that I hope will convey some of what I’m trying to communicate, since you don’t seem to understand how complex military strategy on a national level is. It’s not like a sentence or two. It’s systems upon systems relying on other systems which are regulated by resources or practical necessities, leaning on other things which are dictated by something else entirely etc etc.

Iraq, Libya and others. At worst we call it a special military operation in support of Ukraine.

So you’re genuinely advocating breaking international law? You don’t actually care about morals? That’s… off-putting, to say the least.

“After these comments…”

Was it you who commented earlier in the thread about something something “fantasy, not reality”? Because you live in some weird warmongering fantasy war fetish laa-laa land. There’s no fucking NSA looking at what people have been writing if you’re conscripted to be infantry. You’re taught how to march, then how to obey, then given a gun, taught how to shoot it, then how to shoot it while moving forward, then taught how to move forwards while shooting it under enemy fire, then how to move while shooting while under enemy fire and communicating with your group (or listening to your group leader/fighting pair).

So, which country is it then? Because you’re saying “we will attack…” but see if there was an offensive from Europe to Russia, it’s highly likely I would be fighting, but I suspect you wouldn’t.

So perhaps stop it with the childish warmongering.

Edit and yes, there is a need to wait for Ukraine EU membership, which there’s attempts to rush through, but international politics don’t work as willy-nilly as online forums. You can’t pretend to ignore global geopolitics.

I don’t think you understand just how large thing a country’s entire military strategy is. You don’t just up and change it like getting a new patch on your favourite game.

There’s infra built literally almost a century ago for these very purposes, the entire reserve would need to be retrained basically.

That’s how we’ve been able to keep Russia from attacking us since the previous bout; by being extremely prepared to defend against an attack.

Also, surely you’re aware that wars of aggression are banned in international law? We can’t just attack Russia with thr combined might of EU armies, as it stands rn.

That’s why we need to get Ukraine to the EU, so that then it’s not a war of aggression, but honoring the mutual defense clause.

That’s also why Russia is pulling off their sabotage like cutting cables and jamming GPS, etc. Because as long as it’s not a direct military attack, EU cannot respond with military force.

Oh and, in which country’s military forces would you be participating in this attack fantasy?

Easy to say. You say “we will attack” so I assume you — like me — are part of at least some European military?

I’m in the Finnish Defence Forces. Our entire military strategy is based around defending an attack from Russia, not actively attacking it.

Just can’t get the nuance, can you?

Doesn’t matter how much I repeat it. You can’t address my point, while pretending it’s completely wrong. Implying that you’re very much dismissing anything I said.

You disagree that Russian disinformation is rampant on Lemmy?

Ah, thanks foe telling me. Every accusation is an admission. So my half-page comments are too long for you to read, got it.

Not a single person has had anything to say about the actual subject.

When do you figure out that I’m not a cyka blyat who’s afraid of some randos on Lemmy disagreeing with me? If you do, you’re pathetic.

Are you pro- or anti-Russian?

Simple question 😀

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

Doesn’t matter what you pretend is real. Reality is real. And the reality is that the fucktard Putin has an ICC warrant out for him, and you’re refusing to accept that while FUDding that I’m a Russian troll despite me being a part of the Finnish military.

You guys honestly are on a totally different level, intellectually. But… not in a good way. :D

So you can’t say that Putin is bad, you keep saying I must be defending him, when I explicitly detail his warcrimes (which you’re too blyat to admit to), and I’m the one supporting him, despite me being part of the Finnish military?

How do you explain that?

Jesus your guys’ education is just such garbage. Almost as if you’re not even the same fucking species :D

Stress on the pronoun “I” there.

I’m manufacturing defense of Putin? Me? A member of the Finnish Defence Force? A Finnish reserve member, trained to kill cyka ruskis?

Me who’s saying Putin is a pathetic balding whore afraid to even appear in public because his country hates him so? Putler, who has an ICC warrant ouf for his arrest?

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

I bet you don’t dare to say any of those things.

Please, prove me wrong in that aspect. Please

ps how much military training you have?

Why on Earth would you imply I “think otherwise”? Oh right, your verbal skills aren’t enough to answer a single fucking question in English.

I forgot, izvini comrade.

edit just a reminder, this is my personal knife, and it’s explicitly for killing Russian war criminals;