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I never really got into the universe (despite liking the setting) but I've finished the pilot and thought it was a great adaptation (much, much better than what Amazon did to LOTR). It has both protagonists and villains that are interesting enough to care about and I'll be watching the full season f...

You make it sound like Ukraine actually had a say in the matter of being invaded. How about not shelling ethnic Russians the Donetsk region for something like 8 years before the invasion? How about not making fake claims. And even if Ukraine did that, that still doesn't justify Russia shelling peop...

Man. Is someone suggesting that the Ukrainian population collectively wants to surrender to Russia as opposed to keep fighting? Because I feel like that is being implied but not said. I feel like Sisko is being disingenious with his sources. Sure, the people who 'disagree' can't use google, but I'm...

Exclusive: Iran alerted Russia to security threat before Moscow attack I am beginning to think that Russia knew about the attack but allowed it to happen so it could be used for political purposes, hence all the finger-pointing at Ukraine. Putin knows damn well Ukraine had nothing to do with it but...

ISIS is still claiming responsibility for the attack. It's the "why" that confuses me. Because they (read: someone somehow associated with ISIS) found someone pissed off or bitter or whatever enough to do it and that happened to be right now. ISIS has no reason not to take credit for a go...

I wonder why Putin is against the death penalty in Russia? I wonder why Putin is against the death penalty in Russia? He's afraid he might have to face it one day? The Russian dictator is above the law (there is no rule of law in Russia after all). But hopefully the death penalty stays out of Russi...

Haiti always has been bad at the best of times, but it seems that these last few weeks to country is collapsing to total anarchy and gang warfare Reuters PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 22 (Reuters) - Almost half of Haiti's people are struggling to feed themselves as gang violence spreads across the country, ...

Solauren wrote: ↑2024-03-23 08:06am I'm guessing it was so ISIS felt relevant or got in the news again.

Much like a bored 3 year old climbing out of bed at 11pm and making a rucus when his parents have guests over.

Possibly

Russia fought against ISIS in Syria (at least so they claimed) so there's also that

Interesting images and acts of civil disobedience during the first day of the Russian sham elections

https://youtu.be/mdxUi3J5nE0?si=RNtGi_MKYoSI5cS3

Meanwhile Kids are disappearing from Ukraine into Russia even Russia admits it . The Russian apologies is getting really deep and are full of shit, as usual. Abducting children by the thousands is horrible enough as it is. That they get "patriotic re-education" where they are taught to ha...

How is the forced deportation and ethnic cleansing of ethnic minorities not organized mass murder when the resulting estimated deaths were up to 1.5 million ? And that's not even including the additional 1.6 million of people who died in Stalin's concentration camps, I mean, Gulag slave labour pris...

Oh please, as if the USSR under Stalin wasn't a genocidal state itself? Stalin had no problem in the mass murder or forceful deportation of millions of ethnic minorities (and not just in Ukraine), and his regime treated the common people just as much as slaves. So yeah, I see Stalin with the same c...

If you're so ethically fucked you see no difference between an expressly genocidal state with an expressly genocidal ideology which, if it hadn't been destroyed - by among others the USSR - would have continued extermination Europe's Jews, Romani etc and then carried out an all consuming program of...

So 50% of the two battalions. Would you like to estimate the number of fascists in the russian army, you know, for balance? :roll: You'd have a hard time doing that easily, since unlike Ukraine, the Russian military isn't lousy with troops who feel comfortable openly adorning their uniforms with fa...

So 50% of the two battalions. Would you like to estimate the number of fascists in the russian army, you know, for balance? :roll: You'd have a hard time doing that easily, since unlike Ukraine, the Russian military isn't lousy with troops who feel comfortable openly adorning their uniforms with fa...

Apparently people in occupied Donetsk can already vote for Putin in elections. Similar to the earlier sham referendums (where you could choose between joining Russia or leave Ukraine), voters will be protected in their home by the not-at-all intimidating presence of well armed Russian soldiers, to m...

Here in Belgium there is compulsory voting, but voting is done anonymous. In Russia that doesn't seems to be the case. Wow I've never heard that. Do you have a source handy? It seems like a pretty big deal. I meant, that's just my how I perceived it with this 'loyalty app' but I could be wrong. Reg...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting Why are people acting like being required to vote is some special Russian tyranny move instead of something also done by noted fascist dictatorships Australia, Singapore and Belgium? Here in Belgium there is compulsory voting, but voting is done ano...

This is interesting because to me because this is already the most likely conclusion. Not suing for peace is just going to lead to Russia getting ALL of Ukraine. They could and should have negotiated from a position of relative strength when they had the chance. Either way, there's more harm to be ...

Medvedev again showed that serious peace talks with Russia's current regime are a waste of time, as Russia's goal is the capitulation and near complete annexation of Ukraine. Dude. Why are you pretending you don't understand the idea that what leaders say when mouthing off for internal propaganda i...

Medvedev again showed that serious peace talks with Russia's current regime are a waste of time, as Russia's goal is the capitulation and near complete annexation of Ukraine. Reuters Putin ally says 'Ukraine is Russia' and historical territory needs to 'come home' March 4 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev...

I'm not American but it looks like Biden did a good job during his term all things considered. But despite that, he's too old to run again (then again, so is Trump). What's stopping the democratic party to promote an alternative candidate to Biden? One that could lure moderate republicans too that f...

At this point, if I was a country near Russia (next to, or with one country inbetween),It's be treating any attempt by Russians to settle as a the start of Russia building up an excuse to invade. I think Sri Lanka is probably safe... No doubt. However, if you were a country anywhere near Russia, wo...

Trump should be reminded that those same underspending countries he wants to throw under the bus, came to aid the US aid after the 9-11 attacks, the first and only time in NATO's history when Article 5 was invoked

It's bad enough for Trump and his MAGA cult to throw the security of the USA and its allies under to bus, but to encourage Putin to start more conflicts against America's allies in something else entirely