@leckie_cameron Analysis by abject ignorance. Anyone who doesn't recognize the greatness of Russian culture is automatically an idiot (and not the holy kind). Should just stfu with their fake morality.
@izan3391@leckie_cameron Yes establishment boomers, either compromised or senile enough to believe the propaganda. Not sure which category old Faulty fits. Both perhaps.
@JonesHowDareYou@GuardianAus Incredible how people can't put two and two together and realize that Israel and the Ukraine are performing the same function for Empire.
Ironic and sad this comes amidst Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversary. Upwards of 246k dead, civilians. Greenlight tactical nukes and you lower the threshold for strategic nukes which end it all. This is f@cking Dr. Strangelove insanity.
Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed https://t.co/0YQ93ezMgL
@leckie_cameron@dfat@abcnews The Chinese should just program a few diplomatic robots to do eyerolls and send them in, save themselves the irritation. In fact probably a market for these in BRICS.
@leckie_cameron@EliasClure@abcnews While people were annoyed that the only time Starmer expressed joy or interest was when he got to fondle Zelibobs, it was his abject failure as a human being that united the country in loathing, rather than any specific geopolitical objections.
I received several reactions to the discussion I hosted about how nuclear weapons may be used against Europe to restore deterrence. To be clear, this is not a normative argument about what I think should happen or what I think is just. My argument is what I think will happen. European leaders have become so deeply involved in the attacks on Russia that the Kremlin is under great pressure to restore its deterrence.
Once Russia retaliates with conventional weapons against European targets (weapons facilities, logistics centres), the Europeans will more forcefully attack Russia. At this point, I believe that it is more likely than not that Russia could launch a limited nuclear strike (with tactical nuclear weapons, not strategic). This should not be a controversial prediction. NATO countries are doing the war planning; their intelligence agencies are doing the targeting; their contractors are pulling the trigger; they are supplying the long-range weapons; and they are also using NATO territory to strike Russia. This will only escalate as the Europeans are talking about mass-producing long-range weapons for "Ukraine" to strike deeper and deeper inside Russia, and are setting dates for when Europe will directly attack.
Our political leaders are obsessed with defeating the world's largest nuclear power, which considers itself to be fighting in a war for its existence. It should worry us that our political leaders did not define what a NATO victory looks like in this scenario, and we should also be worried that our political leaders have incrementally become so directly involved in attacks on Russia and still pretend it is merely a war between Russia and Ukraine. Our political leaders sabotaged both the Minsk peace agreement and the Istanbul agreement, and then shut down all diplomacy for more than 4 years while declaring that "weapons are the path to peace". It is obligatory in Europe to pretend this is about "helping Ukraine", but this is dangerous self-delusion.
Where exactly did we think this was heading? Is nuclear war not the obvious end? Can anyone imagine it ending in any different ways if we had done this during the Cold War or if Russia were now similarly attacking the US through a proxy? Biden once said that sending F-16s meant World War 3, yet now it has become controversial to point out that NATO clearly crossing the line between proxy war and direct war will trigger a nuclear war. I see no morality in such self-delusion. NATO escalations are now out of control, we are heading to war, and that war will not be limited to conventional weapons. The fact that this is dismissed as a "pro-Russian" argument demonstrates how completely lost we have become in mindless war propaganda.
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Fond memory I have from south Beirut is telling people that I was Iranian and the one Farsi phrase that most seemed to know was "Khosh amadeed", translated more literally, "It's great that you've come." Video from tonight in Lebanon unrelated.
1) Europe degenerates into commodified sex & war like true barbarians.
Merz wants to replay WWII with Russia, continuing America's proxy war from 2013/4. Starmer, Macron et al throw public resources at it - no diplomacy.
Normalisation of prostitution classes in German schools.
Ukraine deliberately attacked the energy block of the Zaporozhya Nuclear Power Plant
▪️A Ukrainian drone exploded in the machine room of the 6th power unit of the Zaporozhia Nuclear Power Plant. A hole was formed in the wall.
▪️The UAV was controlled via fiber optics — this completely rules out the version of a supposedly accidental hit.
▪️This is the first deliberate attack on the main equipment of the NPP with a through-penetration explosion and damage to the machine room building, said the head of Rosatom.
➖"What to expect next? Attacks directly on the turbine? The reactor hall? The reactor and safety systems?", said Likhachev.
Ukraine is casually doing nuclear terrorism again but the West, who will be affected by the aftermath as well, is silent.