Pretty sure that yappers who get killed by a buwullet don’t go to valhalla.

A $10,000 drone taken out by a $384,000 missile.

Actually they cleared out an entire prison by via transfer and early release just to make sure they could lock up these dangerous terrorists.

Her grandfather was a member of a nationalist paramilitary force that hunted down communists, assisted einsatzgruppen in extermination of undesirables, and so on. As one might expect.

Wouldn’t put it past the US to try and assassinate Maduro.

It’s inevitable that most regions/countries will wall themselves off in the end. It’s the only way to stop colour revolutions and information warfare. The tools get better every day. Israel has gone from having whole battalions of manpower sitting in offices shitposting to using LLM’s and getting companies to automatically flag and prune anything they don’t want anyone seeing.

Eventually total information control will be possible for even the smallest powers.

Self preservation would be one motivation. .

The 2019 RAND report gameplan for this conflict makes it clear that, if the worst case scenario happens and Russia gets stronger over the course of the conflict rather than being depleted as intended, an offramp should be found immediately to minimize Russian gains. Ukraine is losing the war, and supplies are now limited to a dripfeed. Their suzerain is stating pretty clearly that they expect compliance. – Logically, in line with US think-tanks, the next step is to assassinate Zelensky and find someone more conciliatory.

Mass killings of civilians don’t make you a terrorist, but being aligned with enemy nation sure does.

It’s just the start of the “stabbed in the back” myth though, isn’t it? Ukrainian men are all heroes that fought like lions, lead by incompetent russian generals and jewish leaders; and betrayed by the west who didn’t possess a will to win as strong as ours.

Listening to Ukrainian sources and interviews on the street is very interesting. There’s immense social and legal pressure to follow “the narrative”, but occasionally you get a weary sigh as someone on a tram 20km from the front says, yeah, our boys attack civilians but everyone around here knows the Russians don’t so I feel quite safe.

Criticizing the performance of the regular army is one of the few legal and socially acceptable avenues to express dissent.

Cut Wikipedia access for people in the UK and just have a page that says “wikipedia is unavailable in the UK due to local censorship laws”

It’s not like they have to make a profit.

Agreed. There’s just not enough Ukrainian soldiers left, and the Russians have access to such a vast quantity and quality of weapons. The number of glide bombs being used around Pokrovsk right now is incredible. There are so few Ukrainian soldiers left in some areas that the Russians can dedicate several drones to hunting down and killing each individual soldier.

Time for the yearly Ukrainian collapse in Donbas. The Russians have made weeks of progress in 3 days.

Seems like the Russians were building up forces to encircle Pokrovsk to the west, but then decided to change their plans and instead thunder-run north towards the new second belt of defenses that the Ukrainians have been building for over a year. Turns out, the Ukrainians built this formidable new defensive line to prepare for the future, but then didn’t have enough soldiers to man it. The Russians are now moving into this free real estate and spreading out along it, turning a 10km encirclement into a 30km fortified encirclement.

Ukrainian commentator cope is currently “the Russians aren’t getting better, our own high command is getting more incompetent.”

The number of people who are both keenly aware of exactly what is happening in occupied Palestine, and also clearly distinguish between settler-colonialism and judaism is sadly the minority. Strength of feeling over literal genocide often doesn’t lead to rational demarcation of the camps. Many on the (actual) left manage it because our analysis of social structures tends to be very methodical. Other’s aren’t so well equipped.

Anyone who doesn’t have it internalized can’t be your ally. They’ll fold too easily. Even if you agree with them on most things, if they haven’t internalized the fact that there is only resistance or total capitulation to the US, at best they can only be your tool, not your ally.

Ukraine continues their fascist ethnic cleansing. The Russians should assassinate this guy and make it clear why.

Opinions have shifted a lot the past few months, but it hasn’t translated into much pressure yet.

Selective enforcement is the intention.

A ship from this company likely made a stop in Israel at some point, flagging the entire company as valid targets for the blockade.

Fully agree.

What Iran really needs to do right now is build unity, destroy the enemy within, and keep hitting the entity every day. There’s no point escalating at this moment unless the US starts bombing air defences and the IRGC. There’s also no point de-escalating; as we’ve seen from Lebanon and Syria, Israel will continue bombing regardless.

Keep up the pressure. No negotiations (Negotiations are literally pointless when you’re in a weak position, since their only purpose is to extract concessions, not work out peaceful co-existence). Build the nukes.

As soon as nukes are tested, sanctions will be applied. Acquire sufficient volume of weapons to ensure deterrence against first strikes. Apply counter sanctions (destruction of all oil shipping going to countries that are applying sanctions). Go in hard for the new world.