NATO is clearly spooked Russia is about to attack, but I find it difficult to believe the Russians in their present state are capable of a major offensive. Not sure what their play is unless it’s just to expose US guarantees as unreliable but that seems like a major gamble.
i think that we’re so caught up with the idea that WWIII means immediate nukes that the fact we have a massive, multi-front global conflict just won’t be recognized as WWIII by a lot of people unless everyone gets nuked lol
I really try to resist Canadian exceptionalism talk on here but the fact that a vast majority of Canadians attend secondary and post secondary institutions of basically all the same quality with far less class and status stratification made young adulthood so much better here
NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.
Hasan Piker to Axios:
Look, if you've done a genocide, and you defend the genocide that's taking place, and if you want to continue offering material support to the country that's doing genocide, then you're pro-genocide.
An investigation by the Israeli outlet HaMakom (המקום הכי חם בגיהנום) reports that soldiers from the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion found an elderly Palestinian woman in a combat zone in Gaza and decided to evacuate her.
She was bound and blindfolded and placed in a military vehicle with three soldiers. According to testimony collected by HaMakom, the officer accompanying her received a phone call, stopped the vehicle, took the elderly woman out, and shot her dead.
One soldier described it as “the execution of an elderly woman who was supposed to be evacuated.”