From my perspective Ukrainian strikes are carried out in self defense
And that’s the problem. Any amount of bloodletting is permissible if you stick “I think they’re defending themselves” in front of it.
So long as you’re aligned with the US of course.
I’ve heard Americans say the same about Middle Eastern casualties weighed against Israelis.
Certain people’s lives simply don’t matter.
the oil industry.
I guess it’s cool to kill civilians when they’re roughnecks?
It’s not that I didn’t know any of these
Strange that you would pretend ignorance up front
Can you elaborate on Ukrainian salvos please?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_in_Russia_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
And also - on Russian peace proposals too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_negotiations_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
It’s been open war for the last three years. Idk if you can blame the latest salvo on Russians being extra mean during Constitution Day any more than you can blame the next Ukrainian salvo on Russians deserving a double-plus bombing on Lenin’s birthday or whenever.
Every proposal for a peace plan gets flattened with a media barrage of “They’re inhuman monsters who are incapable of peace and all deserve to be exterminated!” So until the two countries can get past that (or one/both finally collapse - which I’ve been told will happen very shortly, continuously for the last three years) we’re going to continue to see new records set in the number of atrocities committed into the foreseeable future.
Unfortunately, that’s not how Imperial Presidencies work.
Mike Lee floats a lot of turds, even in excess of what the standard put out. He’s been agitating against NATO membership practically since his first day in the Senate, along with his close friend Rand Paul.
This bill won’t even make it out of committee, unless Lee can get a bug in Trump’s ear over it.
Easy to forget that Italy was with the Allies group in WW1. But also that WW1 ended with private sector creditors knocking at the door of winners and losers alike. The old aristocracy had leveraged itself to the hilt in order to finance a pointless, needless, catastrophic war between regional powers. And now the new aristocracy of capital was trying to strip the copper out of the walls of the proles in order to pay back what was owed.
This lead to a groundswell of socialist organization and radicalism in the wake of the Great War. One which threatened aristocrats old and new. The only response Italians (and Germans… and Brits and Americans to boot) could conceive of was a fascist heel-stomp on the necks of the rising organizations of labor.
TRAITORS OF THE WORLD!
Hardly traitors. Fascism was pioneered to preserve the aristocracy and the capitalists alike, by turning worker against worker along ethnic and national lines.
It was the socialists who were the traitors. They sought to end the old world and bring about a new one. And they nearly did it.
Damn, you’re right. I wouldn’t want to vacation anywhere that has a long history of atrocious civil rights abuses.
Books tickets to Florida
it’s the valiant choice.
In the same way that shoving your dick into a wood chipper is, sure.
Was Alexi Navalny valiant? Was Prigovian? Was Milosivec? Was Saddam Hussein?
A truly valiant leader probably wouldn’t find themselves in the situation where it was necessary to do that
“No truly valiant person has ever had a warrant out for their arrest” is…
Come on dude.
Who does he think he is? An American?
It might be worth asking why a national leader simply handing oneself over to a militant opposition isn’t something that happens more frequently. Is there no such thing as a valiant national leader? Or would martyring yourself for the sake of a foreign coalition’s legal code be kinda pointless and dumb?
When has a world leader ever done this?
What is the valiant thing to do in this instance?
Is that why we bombed them
Arming The Moderate Rebels was, incidentally, how Hamas formed in opposition to the Palestinian Authority two decades ago. Then they became the excuse Israel needed to do genocide at the border.
Cannot be overemphasized that the average age of Palestinians is eighteen. These are children being bombed, caged tortured, displaced, starved, and then armed to turn against one another.
In another ten years, we’re going to get another whole fascist line about how Palestinians are feral soulless savages. Textbooks will be written to teach future Israelis how Arabs lack humanity, with the remnants of Palestinian society used as the proof.
the IAEA’s entire purpose is non-proliferation of nuclear weapons
Oh? How many inspections have they made in Israel?
Sorry, I will not feel pity towards the Iranian government.
Of course not. Your brain is poisoned by hate.
What I’m arguing is that you said this was all to prevent Iran to have nuclear energy, which is untrue since Iran already has that.
They have a single nuclear plant that had been under construction since 1975 and was held up repeatedly by foreign intervention, including the 2009 sabotage effort by the Obama administration’s CIA - which, incidentally, gave the rest of the world exposure to the Stuxnet virus as collateral. Then there has been the persistent effort by US and Israeli intelligence services to kidnap and assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, also going back decades. Not even including the assassination efforts since 2021, we’ve seen attacks in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 all linked back to western aligned governments.
“Iran has a single nuclear power plant so what are you complaining about?” is deliberately naive and obtuse, particularly when peer nations like Germany and France have enjoyed the benefits of between six and fifty-six plants going back over 40 years. Hell, the UAE has four active plants and over 5x Iran’s total energy capacity for a population 1/10th the size, without provoking the kind of intervention and assault the Iranians have endured.
The latest bombing of uranium enrichment facilities - hell, the fact that they need to bury their refinement facilities at the bottom of a mountain to begin with - illustrate the undo costs and constant threats Iranians need to endure in order to modernize their electric grids.
I do not agree they should be outright attacked over such things, but to pretend like Iran is completely innocent is ridiculous.
Innocent of what? Implementing energy modernization strategies that have been in the works since prior to the revolution?
What are you even accusing them of? Not adhering to an arms control agreement the US pulled out of as an excuse to attack them? It’s insane to even talk about the Iranian nuclear program absent the malicious history of foreign intervention.
The spectacle is more important than the consequences.
The British Government considers being Arab as synonymous with being a terrorist. Not, incidentally, any differently than how Israelis see them.
Of course, the Brits were a colonial power that spent centuries quelling domestic revolts in order to extract natural resources and exploiting cheap labor. Also, not that different from their Israeli peers.