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Is he trying to be the first president executed for treason ? How? There's no law against having a shitty or controversial opinion on what US foreign policy should be. In fact that's very much the sort of thing a president/presidential candidate is expected to weigh in on. I remind you that the Uni...

You know how much of clusterfuck this is when even the USA is expressing misgivings about Israel going :kill: Not really. The US government has done that before. Biden probably doesn't personally thirst for Palestinian blood. It just doesn't amount to much beyond "Hey you should tone it down a...

Needless to say, Trump has latched on to this despite being arguably worse :wanker: It won't matter if Trump is worse if Biden has done it too. "I'm not as bad as the other guy" is not a great campaign line. "My opponent will murder you and your family" is pretty decent though. ...

This almost sounds like this war has drained out the military capacity of Russia and most of Europe. That's, not a good thing. I don't know, it doesn't seem that terrible that no one seems to have enough weapons to casually kill millions of people. Both sides having to stop due to running out of su...

Moot point because his policies and decisions on the subject aren't meaningfully different from the ones he would have made before his supposed cognitive decline.

Is he even all there enough to understand what's going on more than half the time? As we learn more and more about how the brain ages I grow ever more concerned that we leave nations in the hands of people with fading faculties. I really don't want to go down the justified age discrimination/prejud...

Broomstick wrote: ↑2024-02-07 05:59pm I swear to God I'm getting whiplash from feeling one moment like we're in the 1930's then in the 1960's the next.

Now imagine how Genocide Joe must feel!

What is the point of phasing out one UN relief agency for another? If the UNHCR is put in charge of the same relief workers and does the same duties as UNWRA then the only real change is the name. Again, why bother? Elfdart, funny you should mention that. Turns out that there actually IS a practica...

Okay I can just can just barely make that out. One more mark in the don't vote next year column. I don't think she's running, so it doesn't matter anyway. But, for the love of NOT LETTING TRUMP WIN, Please Vote. And she wouldn't be in my state or district regardless. But under the circumstances thi...

Like there's no question the annexation of Crimea was illegal . The only question is what do you want to do about it , and the idea that its worth spilling a drop of blood over trying to reverse something that the population of Crimea is clearly fine with was, and is, irrational, and everyone acted...

Okay I can just can just barely make that out.

One more mark in the don't vote next year column.

Gandalf wrote: ↑2024-01-30 01:13am In a follow up to the above story, Pelosi has now yelled at a bunch of protestors; "Go back to China, where your headquarters is!"

A Twitter link, but all I could find.

I couldn't hear her saying that in the clip

2. Insistence that the Russians can't be trusted and will attack again to 'finish the job' at a time of their choosing, which even if true (and there's no compelling reason to think so) Maybe you should listen to Russian state media and officials more, because they regularly claim their goal is to ...

More to the point, whether there was an explicit promise of security guarantees or not, seems pretty clear that turning their nukes over to the new Russian government was sending the message that Ukraine didn't have any hostile intentions towards them. Much more solid than the possibility that unles...

We were talking about Soviet nukes in Ukrainian territory, dum dum. My post followed this one: 1) Those were Soviet nukes which just happened to be in the Ukraine when the USSR broke up. As opposed to the Soviet nukes that just happened to be in Russia with the USSR broke up? Yes. With the context ...

Russia is considered the successor state to the Soviet Union. That's is why they still have the seat on the UN Security Council, among other things. And? So "Soviet nukes in Russian territory" is pretty straightforward to them becoming Russian. We were talking about Soviet nukes in Ukrain...

Batman wrote: ↑2024-01-28 09:34pm Russia can only the successor state to the USSR in ALL aspects, they don't get to pick and choose the once that benefit them and not be bothered by the rest. Either ALL of that heritage is theirs or NONE of it is.

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Not sure what you're getting at here.

Gandalf wrote: ↑2024-01-28 09:27pm Russia is considered the successor state to the Soviet Union. That's is why they still have the seat on the UN Security Council, among other things.

And?

aerius wrote: ↑2024-01-28 09:18pm 1) Those were Soviet nukes which just happened to be in the Ukraine when the USSR broke up.

As opposed to the Soviet nukes that just happened to be in Russia with the USSR broke up?

Because they perceive NATO as a security threat and will not tolerate NATO military infrastructure on Ukrainian territory, which would potentially place NATO forces within striking distance to Moscow along a favourable (and traditional) Europe-to-Russia invasion route. That's the reason they invade...

Why do you think Russia's peace offers have included terms about Ukraine reducing it's military and/or never joining NATO ? Because the only reason I can see is that they are planning to try again sometime in the future. The positive spin is that eliminating Ukraine as a potential military threat/N...

That's fucking stupid. Planes are never going to be able to match container ships for bulk shipping.

Oh hey, looks like the ruling has already had an effect! https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa%E2%80%99s-lifesaving-aid-may-end-due-funding-suspension UNRWA’S LIFESAVING AID MAY END DUE TO FUNDING SUSPENSION 27 January 2024 OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN GAZA DEPEND ON UNRWA FOR SURVIVA...

I'm seeing Palestinian people spitting fire on social media about how they didn't even order a ceasefire. Ancedotal, but it seems like it's being taken as a betrayal and a failure. Though ordering them to stop committing war crimes, stop starving civilians via blockade and killing them via bombings ...

So Vympel, what exactly would you propose Ukraine and its allies in Europe and North America do about this whole being invaded and partially conquered by Russia situation?