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Jacques Baud: About Alexei Navalny
Good summary of the Navalny saga.
Perhaps Turning breaking the Enigma was easier than we suspected?
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1764729649307795779
boomers lol
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That was just the shut off cone if I remember correctly.
Ivan logging into the nuclear launch network through McDonald's website and entering the code "Obama"
First case of this kind: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been referred to the International Criminal Court as an accessory to genocide in Gaza making him the 1st leader of a Western nation referred to the ICC under Article 15 of the Rome Statute. 100+ Australian lawyers back this move
Man, what the fuck happen to the labor parties of the world.
In race for top EU, NATO jobs, Eastern Europe asks: ‘Are we equals or not?’
Eastern Europeans once again get passed over for top positions as Mark Rutte from Netherlands is most likely to be the next NATO chief, much to the dismay of Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas.
“And then there is a question [of] whether there are first-rank and second-rank countries in NATO.” “If we think about a geographical balance, it’s going to be the fourth [NATO] Secretary-General from the Netherlands,”
Is this when we say that we are all equal, but some are more equal than others ?
I mean, NATO's longest running ever operation, was conducted in the countries of continental Europe by the UK and US, engaged in literal terrorism and assassinations, and none of those countries parliaments had a clue it was happening.
Estonia isn't "eastern europe", is their entire fake identity based on whining and jew hating?
None of the Baltic countries are real
"Will we ever figure out that we are Western Europe's crumple zone?"
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All I can find is a US Embassy employee was found dead in their Jerusalem apartment, no foul play suspected.
Wow this seems huge if it'll be a confirmed assassination
Lol arr / polytix is delusional over Nimrata winning the DC primary, an event as consequential as Bloomberg winning the 2020 American Samoa primary. One galaxy brain thinks "Trumps house of cards" is now falling lol
Excuse me, Mr. Trump...!
British soldiers ‘on the ground’ in Ukraine, says German military leak
The ending quote by Kiesewetter is nice, never forget he was calling on Germans to go and support Israel militarily right now, and be ready for the whole army to do it no matter what.
Some time ago I decided to venture into default subs to se ether reaction to Zelensky claiming Counteroffensyv plans were leaked and saw a take of all takes.
Apparently Counteroffensyv was so telegraphed purposefully. Russian soldiers were supposed to anxiously wait for months for apocalypse of Western weapons, get stressed, drink alcohol to soothe themselves, fight among themselves and ultimately run away at first sight of attack.
Is modern understanding of war completely dominated by therapyspeak? Every single thing that happens in this war has a myriad of pseudointellectuals trying to make put some devastating psychological effect out of a smallest thing.
I think it unironically started with people interpreting Putin's actions or words starting 10+ years ago. Like when he had Merkel meet his dog, and people claimed it was a James Bond villain tier power play as Merkel is supposedly deathly terrified of dogs.
Then it was used by Trump supporters, who claimed a lot of his political fumbles as "4D chess" that was actually building up to a devastating draining of the swamp. You definitely see this way more now regardless of what "side" they're on. It's just empty cheerleading
its copium all the way down, the redditors mind can't comprehend that western made tanks are just boxes of steel and ceramics and get fucked up just as much when hit by AT weaponry
It's just mass collective projection. You're seeing the inner workings of the modern American (and to an extent, Western) psyche here. We live an experience in this country of consistent, merciless psychological battery and stimulus, so they assume everyone else is affected by it the same way.
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Moody's about to downgrade the model to Cbrams. 🥁
Like the vodka? Oh ho ho
Underrated joke.
Based is too soft a word
Think Corbyn will join him and establish the WPGB as a real contender?
https://hindsart.com/digital/2022/digital_norf_HD.jpg
Brings a tear to my eye.
some of you anglos aint so bad
no, but...
At this point I fear Galloway has been too horny in his constant clamouring for Corbyn's attention and Jezza will pretend to ignore it, to spare the embarrassment.
Russia loves D-tier American celebrities.
Like, why tf would you want anything to do with Jackson Hinkle and his stupid fucking face? The guy was hawking Wagner tshirts last year.
Jackson Tinkle wishes he were D-tier
https://m.jpost.com/omg/article-789809
Poor IDF, will.never know the glory that is a Cheeseburger.
https://archive.is/PAz86
bUt ItS nOt AnYwHeRe ClOsE tO bEiNg ThEoCrAtIc
Love that they get statements from the father, the picture that's arising of the Israeli military and society in general is as hilarious as it is horrific.
Got another Abrams near Berdychi. It kinda looks like Syrsky's committed whatever strategic reserve he had left. Purging a bunch of officers, too, presumably either because of loyalties to Zaluzhny or a disinclination to suicidal counterattacks.
And meanwhile half of Ivanivske's fallen. Once that's gone, it looks like Klishchiivka becomes basically untenable, and then it's really just the line along the canal before the Russians can envelop Chasov Yar. They absolutely have to hold that, because the entire Konstantinovka-Druzhovka-Kramatorsk-Sloviansk line sits in a valley five hundred feet below the heights that Chasov Yar controls.
The apparently the Abrams was first mobility killed by a grand launcher taking out a track and then finished off after support was called in. The one prior was mission killed by a FPV drone striking the back of the turret and igniting the ammo in the bustle, a weakness that was probably never thought about. Sure it improves crew survivability but also likely makes it much easier to disable the tank at which point you now have 4 infantry and no tank.
Tanks in general are just more vulnerable than they’ve ever been. They still absolutely have their place but there’s going to be a lot of rethinking how best to design, deploy and utilize them in the future with the proliferation and evolution of drones and ATGMs
But that still puts the ammo toward the rear of the tank when attacking, right? Generally tanks are a bit fucked once things get behind them anyway.
Curious to know if the drone was deliberately striking a known weakness or just got lucky. The drones seem to have a delay on their video signal, which makes the terminal aiming window tricky. Not to mention they must handle like a brick swinging on a rope with those warheads strapped to them, probably a bit of a coin flip where it hits at the best of times.
The silence from Chomsky lately has me worried. He hasn’t spoken or written in months and hasn’t commented on the events in Gaza post October. I’m being to fear the worst. Hopefully he’s just taking some deserved time off considering he’s well into his 90s now.
I've been having the same fears too, especially given that he's one of the most high-profile intellectual pro-Palestinian advocates. I cant recall where I saw this, but apparently he's been having health issues lately, and Mehdi Hasan suggested implicitly in his interview with Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball that Chomsky is currently going through some health issues as well.
He beat kissinger so I'm really calm about it
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I’m not the biggest Chomsky fan, but I’m somewhat open to believing his interpretation of their relationship. Probably no Dershowitz in thisregard but who knows.
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I honestly think the only compromise is the meeting itself (and why it was arranged), and it's worked to smear him at a time when he was saying inconvenient things about Ukraine.
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They ran out of streets to name after Banderites so they're left with backing random Russian minorities supposed independence drive every two weeks. We should start making bets whether they will support Tuvans before Buryats.
Ukraine supports Cossack estate self determination
Ukraine Plunders Howitzer Graveyard to Keep Big Guns Firing - WSJ Feb.28, 2024
That's something sceptics said early on: operating a highly diverse patchwork of equipment, mostly produced abroad, was bound to create a maintenance/ logistics nightmare and decrease its potential on the battlefield. It also doesn't help that the design philosophy of modern western arms is very different from Russian ones.
The Europeans talk a lot about wanting to increase shell production. They don't seem to bother with building more spare parts though.
Edit: Europe battles powder shortage to supply shells for Ukraine
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The lack of tubes will only become more pronounced as the year progresses.
They talk weekly about a future war with China while making weapons that requires Chinese goods.
They figure that kinda stupidity has to go both ways and if not its unfair?
Same big brain logic with their sanctions against Russia. Their economy and political system is weak, one-dimensional, and the brink of collapse, so all we need to do is boycott a few things (ignoring generous cutouts, loopholes, and intermediaries like India and Central Asia) and it's enough to topple their classically despotic asiatic regime, and our Ivan Guidonov Navalny will let us balkanize and loot their nation to our content. How can they function if they're unable to sell us stuff, even though we won't allow them to use our currency and buy our goods?
That's exactly how these people think. The EU pressures China because muh Oi-oi-oi-ghurs, China reacts by restricting importants exports. Predictable chain of cause and effect, but the EU decision makers can now tell everyone they themselves can not be blamed for unpleasant side effects because China didn't play by the rules.
They aren't primarily concerned with effectively achieving anything, even in fields they deem to be important. They only care about technically not being responsible for the results of their own actions.
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Even worse, it would take central planning.
I think it's also noteworthy that we're frequently told that it doesn't matter that Russia outguns Ukraine 10-to-1 in artillery because superior NATO tech is 15 times more accurate and accuracy is what counts, etc.
So at what point are Ukraine's over-worked guns going to be degraded to the point they are barely as accurate as a crude orc-tube?
Why do I think Ukraine could be flinging artillery shells via trebuchet and we'd still be getting told that it doesn't matter because these are hi-tech Western catapults that are actually superior to Russian guns, and did you see that photo of the fat Russian with a Mosin-Nagant? 2nd strongest army in Ukraine 🤣
Take this with a huge grain of salt (original source is some Russian telegram channel), but it looks like NATO airplanes have started doing sorties in Ukraine, close to the Odessa region, flying from nearby Romania:
Still hoping that this is all a lie and some propaganda 5D chess coming from the Russians, but in case it is indeed true then f.ck all this and our treacherous Romanian politicians for dragging us into all this mess.
I saw that recent survey by ECFR and was surprised a plurality of Romanians prefer a negotiated settlement and ending/limiting their support for the proxy war. Assumed they were more like Poland than Hungary, but maybe my perspective is tainted by diaspora/EU simps in Bucharest.
Yeah, we're more like Bulgaria and I guess Hungary, and not like Poland nor the Baltics. Or at least the "common man" is.
The majority of the pro-Ukraine/anti-Russia people are from among the middle-classes, people that are mostly employed in the services industry (off-shored from the West in one way or another) Of course, I'm saying that just as I was watching a football match this evening with a blue-collar guy in his late 40s, trade union member, works for the Bucharest metro, and yet he was very anti-Russia, genuinely pro-European Union army and he was telling me that the only reason that Russia is still standing it's because of the help they had received from the likes of North-Korea and Iran. So I guess propaganda does work on some people.
The NATO F16 training hub for allies is in Romania in some place called Fetesti https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/romania-opens-f-16-pilot-training-hub-nato-allies-ukraine-2023-11-13/
It says in this article that they will train Ukranian fighter pilots there starting at the beginning of this year, so it's not unlikely to be true.
There are basically two air-bases in the area, "Mihail Kogălniceanu" air-base is the "main" one, located in Dobruja proper and the place from where that arrow thingie in the image I linked to starts from, and, yes, Fetesti/Borcea is the second one, and it's also pretty close by to "Mihail Kogălniceanu" air-base and hence close to the border with Ukraine.
If it matters my older brother did his army stint in the "Mihail Kogălniceanu" air-base in the late '90s in an air-defence unit, which means that if s*it were to hit the fan he'll be among the first ones to get called, and my parents now live about 25 kms as the crow flies from that second Fetesti/Borcea air-base, which is to say, yeay!!!
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I knew yanks were scared of the metric system but 'violence' seems a little over the top.
Lol. Something did seem a little off when I wrote it, they should probably also match for account age (as in I’m not a zoomer, not that would be anything wrong with that) nor a yank.
There are hundreds of F16/F35 planes in this Fetesti town now, worth billions of dollars. This place is probably the most protected place in Europe at the moment. I think your parents are safe. You are also a part of NATO, if things go really badly, NATO troops will come to you. It's been long since your brother served. I don't think he will be first in line. If he was 20 years younger, he could worry more.
That's a good one. No, WE will be the NATO troops, meaning "we" Romanias, Bulgarians and some other poor souls from around these geographical parts. But it's an honest mistake to make, I had thought along the same lines until this war had started, not anymore. Of course, the French are priding themselves with increasing their forces here in Romania from 1500 to 4,000 people in the near future, which is "worth" about a week of battle in places like Avdiivka or Bakhmut.
Another thing that this war has taught me is that the powers that be are reluctant to call up the people aged in their early 20s, I guess they do worry about the demographic consequences up to a certain point. That's why the average age in the Ukrainian army at some point was in the early 40s, meanwhile young people in Kiev were parting like there was no war going on.
That's because the young people in the capital are bougie, rich and more western. I think it will be very unpopular to draft them for moral.
The eastern part/poorer regions don't have as many young people left I'm afraid.
It's probably the same in Russia. If they were to draft, I don't think they would start with the young, rich urban elite in Moscow.
I still don’t understand why we (NATO) had to bomb Libya to preemptively protect civilians from possibly be genocided in the future by Gaddafi, but we just sit back and watch as Gaza unfolds.
The rhetoric from some of the high ranking Israelis is just as bad as Gaddafis
I'm assuming you do know why
Rafah aid drops happened earlier, not sure if that was mentioned.
I am not sure who Biden wants to appeal to with this decision. It wouldn't change the mind of critics who would recognize the incongruity of air drops over territory your ally controls, while also being too much mercy for those who support Israel.
i think Biden wants to be done with Bibi and have Gantz take over, who knows might happen if the Haredim Draft Exemption vote happens.
As Bill Clinton said after his first meeting with Netanyahu, “Who the fuck does he think he is? Who’s the fucking superpower here?”
Unironically netanyahu had the Monica Lewinsky tapes before the scandal broke
The guy who tells America what to do, correctly as it turns out.
Only a, "I'm going to fuck his wife" could make that better.
New month, new Megathread needed. How about "Gorgeous George Glides Gracefully Grinding the Government's Gears"
With France and UK rattling their sabers, we probably need a Charge of the light brigade thread soon
Drones to right of them,
Drones to left of them,
Drones in front of them
Soaring and stalking
Shot at with north korean shell,
They rode their bradleys well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the 1st mechanised.
A flash set the night sky bare
as FABS fell out of the air
Destroying the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder’d:
With russian lines not reached
The defense not breached
The generals realized
The need for a 34th mechanised
Galloway to the left of them, Farage to the RIght of them, Trump in Front of them, They cocked up and blundered.
I've been constantly thinking of galloway's "truly and thoroughly spanked" victory speech quote. That'd be a good title as well
I was watching how the supposed "outsider" channels of Britain TalkTV and GBN were objecting to the fact he said that . Man its been glorious for him also exposing the right to be the frauds they are.
How has Russia not severed diplomatic ties with Germany, the UK, and France at this point?
Because that genuinely would get people concerned the nukes were about to fly, and someone might do something stupid to preempt that
I mean, so might blowing up a large piece of civilian infrastructure.
There’s no plausible deniability when you call your ministers home. That’s why it’s the last step before a declared war.
Smoke rising from the embassy is never a good sign.
They're playing the managed escalation game. For all the bluster, no one wants a giant war to break out.
Document From 2022 Reveals Putin’s Punishing Terms for Peace - WSJ March 1, 2024
They couldn't agree which states were supposed to give security guarantees and Russia wanted those guarantors to only be able to act unanimously. Obviously, that wouldn't be the case should Russia decide to re-invade later down the line. Not that it really matters, because no state (except Russia) would be willing to give ironclad security guarantees to Ukraine anyway. France and the Anglos didn't do it back when the famous Budapest memorandum (a mere non-binding agreement) was negotiated - why should they do it now? This fact of life the Ukrainians are not yet ready to accept.
They will deeply regret not having agreed to these very "punishing" terms of peace. But it's the choice they made. One should remember that once the pain gets dialed up.
Honestly one of the worse things about this is the nuclear proliferation angle. Much like our destruction of Gaddafi/Saddam after they destroyed WMDs made it clear that if you're an 'ememy' you need bad weapons to stay in power.
I am agnostic on Ukraine (hate American radlibs supporting it, but that's a different story) but Ukraine had nukes in its possession at one point that it gave up, right?
Continuously all of the 'lesser powers' are learning that WMDs can equal survival
While your overall point is accurate, Ukraine 'had' nuclear weapons the way Cuba did in the 60s, in that the missiles and their control technology was inaccessible to the Ukrainians — and everyone wanted it that way.
IIRC, the Americans were drawing up plans to take physical control of the weapons through military force if Ukraine wouldn't accede to them being relocated peacefully. There was never an option of keeping them, and like much of their Soviet stockpiles they would have left most of it to rust or sold it all to al Qaeda (bin Laden actually claimed to have black market Ukrainian nukes, but who knows what he really had).
Interesting thanks
So “punishing” that they wouldn’t be allowed to join an alliance that would give them carte Blanche to stage terrorist acts against their neighbor:(((((
very much a trickle of information regarding the nature of these talks. I wonder what specific promises the US/NATO made to Ukraine for these negotiations to be abandoned?
Not to Ukraine: to Z and his Nazi backers who have gained immensely from the corrupt arms trade.
The worldnews article on the biden airdrops gave me cancer
Joe Biden twice confuses Gaza with Ukraine as he approves US military aid airdrops
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For decades, U.S. military doctrine called for the U.S. to be able to fight two wars simultaneously. I guess the planners of that doctrine never counted on the president being unable to tell them apart.
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Germany is blocking the Twitter/X accounts that share the recordings of those Bundeswehr dudes talking about the Crimea Bridge and Taurus missiles, values-based liberal-democracy at work.
so whats the tldr, the none-hyberbolic kind?
I haven't watched or listened to them yet. Where can you find them?
https://twitter.com/BreakingIEN/status/1763677121900118317
Better download the clip.
Already nuked, damn.
It’s still there for me. You have to look at it in the app.
The full un-translated version here. There was also a (supposedly) badly translated shorter version on X, but I can't find it right now.
Mulțumesc foarte mult. This one I will store locally.
You’re welcome!
I had missed this news from last month:
Nicaragua seeks to join South Africa in World Court genocide case against Israel
Also, from today:
Nicaragua files case at World Court accusing Germany of aiding Israel’s ‘genocide’
Now there's claims that the Ukrainians have been counterattacking hard along the Berdychi-Orlovka-Tonenkoe line all day. Certainly that fits Syrski's MO, but this one seems bad even for him. Any reinforcements have no choice but to cross those miles of open fields; they must be getting absolutely pounded by artillery and FPVs before they ever get close to a Russian. This seems like a clearcut case where you really need to trade land for people and time and they still won't do it. It's weird.
Case in point: the pro UAs are beside themselves watching a up close HD quality video of a M2A3 Bradley wiping out a squad of Russians with point blank cannon fire in Berdychi. They omit the fact that the Bradley gunner died the next day in battle.
As long as the belief is that the Ukrainians are making the Russian advance extremely costly (in reality or in myth), the internet will still believe Ukraine is winning.
They only care about singular tactical wins, despite the overwhelming tactical, operational and strategic loses. Idiot westerners
Not weird at all when you realize all of Ukraine's moves in the war have been for a western audience and propaganda purposes. Obsession with the Crimean bridge, unsustainable beachheads across the Dnieper, refusing to lose any ground, suicidal raids into Russia, etc.
Yeah, but that's the thing: surely right now the thing they want to show a US audience is that they're losing quite badly solely because of the Republicans.
the old zapp branigan special
What is it with politicians named George and being hilarious?
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Washington circa 1790: "We do a little trolling"
Europe really sounds like it will just start attacking Russia some time in the next 2 years, the narratives coming out of the media are insane (both opposition and support of illegal immigration, the spread of bedbugs, protests against the EU allowing Ukraine grain, all of them stoked by Russian bots). The US handed the conflict off to the EU and now they're overcompensating to stick it to America and Trump, just goofy how this looks like it kicks off because rich people can't handle online trolls
That's not what I've been seeing.
I've been seeing fears that the Russian military is much larger and stronger now than in 2022, that and Putins obsession with Poland and the threats against the baltics do not help convince them that there's no reason to feel threatened.
The US tells them that there's a war in Taiwan coming in less than 10 years and that if that happens the US wont really prioritize europe because a China war takes priority. European defense has since the end of the cold war entirely relied on the idea that the US would be coming there in 2 weeks to do the heavy lifting and be doing most all the arms production. Combine a much larger Russian military, threats against the EU and the US possibly being absent and you have a scared public who demands militarization.
Attacking Russia would be suicidal, but the public calls for a local alternative to US protection now that it is not guaranteed, because they're not convinced that Russia would never attack NATO.
That's simply bullshit. Outside of Balto-Poland and (for some odd reason) Scandinavia, the public doesn't demand it. The political elites are trying to push this through, against the preferences of a still largely apathetic citizenry.
If the East and the North wants to divert spending to rearmament programs, they are free to do that. Doesn't mean that everyone else needs to follow suit. That's their thing. Not ours.
That's the read I'm getting, lots of "this is a sacrifice we're willing for you to make" headlines over the past several months, literally ALL opposition to the status quo is a Russian troll, etc. Politicians in the EU are the ones rattling the sabres, whether it's because they have a genuine fear of Putin is sort of irrelevant
Well okay, I am scandinavian so I can't say you're wrong, it's the impression I was getting from my surroundings and the news.
It is truly astonishing how much a country with the economy of Italy can accomplish according to the West.
Where are our taxes going if the Inept Asiatic Hordes can do all this on a shoestring budget??
Once again, Russia is cheating when it produces arms and armaments that cost less on a per unit basis.
MEPs: EU must actively support Russia’s democratic opposition
Your tax euros hard at work.
USA should lead the way in decolonizing Russia by decolonizing the Russian colony of Alyaska.
And then they say that anyone who thinks the West wants to break up Russia is crazy.
This is pure "Reichstag in January 1945" level of delusion, I had to do a double take and check that the linked page was not a The Onion-type source.
Navalny's funeral today. The line is over 1km long to see him off. Not to say "I told you so" but I told you so /u/stevenjd
Edit: see also sources like novayagazeta DOT ru/articles/2024/03/01/otpevanie-i-pokhorony-alekseia-navalnogo-v-moskve-news
Is there a better source? Not sure how they're still on a dot ru domain given their headquarters in Riga.
Sure, Kommersantъ has a few pieces as well like kommersant DOT ru/doc/6550971
Thanks. Not surprising, single digit support across the entire country is still millions of people, and moreover support is disproportionately higher in Moscow (city of 13 million; not dissimilar in terms of alignment to western liberal strongholds like Berlin, London, San Francisco, or Shanghai) than other cities.
Oh, I definitely agree. I just wanted to make a point that he was still pretty relevant, even if not actually viable at the ballot
Ъ Lol
They insist on it, and often actually abbreviate themselves to Ъ :D I wish more people did fun gimmicks like that
Maybe Putin did do it. Oh well. Black Hundred is now Black 99
This came out of nowhere, but the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) has just announced (press release in Romanian) that "it supports the setting up of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Ukraine". This is the (approximately) translated text about it:
It's interesting because until now BOR had stood out of anything that had happened to the Romanian religious communities in Ukraine, even when their churches had been forcefully taken over by the authorities in Kiev. The pro-Western media here in Romania are saying that the Romanian communities there are divided between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, but my feeling is that they (the Romanian-speaking people living in Ukraine) are more into the Russian Orthodox Church's camp.
I feel a whole history of the conflict could be written in the future just based off the Orthodox clerical disputes and reactions to one another.
Thank you, this is very interesting
Another jurisdictional dispute I'll add it to the list. Wonder how the EP-aligned supporters are going to blame Moscow for it this time. The Ukrainians have been harassing these people since before the war took off but it got worse once it did. Just to keep tally they've resorted to setting fire to homes and property of the Romanians, not to mention the beatings and hospitalizations of some of the clergy and parishioners, as well as poisoning some lawyers that were representing the diocese. The EP really wants to be seen supporting Ukraine and their state-aligned church so I wonder what kind of spat with Romania this will create aside from just the jurisdictional issues that have become stupidly widespread.
Israel might have taken a Palestinian prisoner and ran him over with a bulldozer
I don't think there's any 'might' about it. The picture is quite unambiguous. The only uncertainty is whether he was already dead first. I hope like hell he was.
i mean theres already precedent with rachel corrie
I have no reason to doubt it at all, just playing cautious unless some other information comes out
lol the madlad did it. immediately calls out starmer.
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Is this a quote? Blessed Georgie
Lol part of his victory speech
George Galloway is claiming victory, they're not releasing the results though
No more will they laugh at our fedoras.
An epic le bacon to you, my good sir.
His commitment to that hat is amazing. He should wear it in commons.
beef bacon, checkmate athiests
Macron's new Grande Armeé for Ukraine just got its first volunteer:
Under the right conditions, Canada open to sending noncombat troops to Ukraine, Defence Minister Bill Blair says
I need to see the Macron political alignment meme again, looks like he's in his Napoleon phase now
What do you think their angle is? Empty show of support which will never actually happen? Send a few token Canadians for the Russians to kill to build public support for escalation?
Seems like a bad idea either way.
Mass losses in Ukraine are one way to solve Leafland's housing crsis
Distract from collapsing quality of life in Canada libs and cons are pretty overwhelmingly in support of Ukraine in Canada.
"Under the right conditions" is doing the heavy lifting here.
Keep in mind that Canada refused an American request to lead a military force in Haiti because it didn't have enough military capacity to support that and a deployment in Latvia simultaneously.
our mickey mouse military stay winning, we're basically costa rica these days.
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Did someone say smiling Norm?
Or Norman Smiley?
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"How about Alan Dershowitz, but he's gay and Chinese?"
https://kyivindependent.com/british-mp-criticizes-scholz/
Scholz says the part out loud that French nd British personnel are involved in targeting in regards to cruise missiles used by Ukraine, and states that the same can not be done in Germany.
rare Scholz W
From the BBC:
From CNN:
even if this is true, it's still on Israel. how the hell do you expect the people you've starved and made homeless to act when trucks carrying food roll through?
I'm not sure how long it's going to take people to notice that Israel lies almost constantly, and about everything. Their version is only interesting if you want to see how brazen they're being this week tbh.
A rotten nation