If Spain doesn’t get in line on the Iran War, I’m confident we’re going to start getting stories about how we need to liberate Catalonia soon enough

This is very similar to the Native American genocide.

The one where Colonial European settlers were literally marching into Indian communities and massacring them?

The country known for acting solely in the interest of the ethnostate.

Glances at Japan

None of that matters.

This is not a fact based discussion, it is a Two Minute Hate.

Once we’re done here, we’ll be off to posting Iranian girls in bikinis while screaming “This is what Islam took from us”

Don’t the US, Canada, and Australia have similar laws?

Yes, but all these countries have politicians who say they feel bad about it

Historically, it’s been a largely regional split with Cantonese in the West and Mandarin in the East.

China’s been something of an outlayer in supporting as many languages as it does.

Downside: Nightmarish war in Europe wrecking the continent worse than anything we’ve seen since WW2.

Upside: We’re getting some exciting new innovations in Meshnets.

If the US was serious about their offer

As of early 2026, the U.S. has allocated approximately $175 billion to $188 billion in total, covering military, financial, and humanitarian aid related to the war in Ukraine. Of this, roughly $66.9 billion to $69 billion has been specifically dedicated to security assistance and military aid.

That’s more than the entire GDP of Ukraine when the war broke out.

It’s been over 60

But also, we keep paying one half of America to kill the other half. That’s got a stabilizing effect

Actually, we did all those things and now America is Great Again

Gotta spend money to make genocides

Why did Russia not invade Poland then?

Russia doesn’t border Poland

Asking Saudi tankers to do in 2026 what Iranian dissidents were forced to do in 1988.

Every time I read these stats, I have to wonder how many getting killed who are contractors, mercenaries, military families, or civilian bystanders that the media decides they don’t want to count.

The nukes aren’t a deterrent if they’re manned by the colonizing entity.

And Russia invaded Crimea in response to the Maiden Revolution, which ousted a friendly government that was giving Russia easy access to the Crimean ports. Crimea hosts the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

Imagine the US response if The Philippines or Japan installed a pro-China government.

It’s probably because arguments about China with “western leftists” are very fresh in the minds of “western libs.”

China’s foreign minister says Iran war ‘should never have happened’

I can see how this would rub certain folks raw, particularly when Iran has been an Enemy Nation for two full generations and change.

It would be like going into every post about bad things US Republicans are doing to make it about how bad the US Democrats are.

I might argue that the problem with the American two party system is that it represents two different faces of American capital. Republicans and Democrats have an annoying habit of agreeing on far more than they disagree.

I don’t think you can make the same argument about US and Chinese foreign policy, even if you can argue they’re both functionally authoritarian police states.

Very weird that the response to this news article - both here and in the cross-posts - appears to be getting extremely mad at western leftists.

We’re so far afield from “Free Tibet”. Or even “Fuck the CCP”. It appears the knee-jerk reaction to articles like this is to get angry at rival Fediverse instances.

“Muslim sleeper cells!” is such a 2003 era white nationalist talking point.

The Iranian expat community has been vocally in support of the bombings.

He hobbled their counter offensive

He extended state-of-the-art telecommunications on contract from the US, then yanked it back because he wanted more money. Which is what private industry always does, the moment they see an opportunity to squeeze someone for extra juice.

I’m personally of the opinion that the NATO block doesn’t want this war to end, because they see it as a way to bleed both Ukraine and Russia until they’re weak enough to re-colonize. This is part of a much broader pattern of NATO fumbled support for Ukraine, such that Russians can pursue a minimal advance while Ukrainians keep jumping into the meat grinder trying to slow it down.

War is a collection of key moments

The most glaring moment, for me, was the Prigozhin lightning raid on Moscow. Russian high command was in chaos. The front line was depleted of reinforcements. Ukraine… didn’t advance an inch.

After that, I was convinced Ukraine was never intended to win this fight.