It’s not just that he supports crimes against humanity. It’s that he lies with every word while doing so.

That destroys his credibility for everything else.

Given Blinkens statements about the Palestinian genocide, I wouldn’t believe a word he says about anything else.

Thank you for the explanation!

Why is reddit cracking down on mods? Aren’t those free anyways? No piracy required?

Good.

Huh, I guess empires were pointless.

None of this about ‘should’.

Take a look at a map sometime. Preferably an equal area projection map.

If Europe was all a single united country with a strong federal system, it still wouldn’t come close to the amount of resources that the US or Russia or China has access too. And if Africa as a continent were to unify into a single country, it would dwarf those three (which is one of the reasons it is the colonial playground of, well, basically everyone.)

And that isn’t what Europe is, is it?

Every political border in Europe is an additional layer of inefficiency. Not that there is anything wrong with that. That is what it means to be your own country and have sovereignty.

I swear, most of the stupid opinions about war, any war, would not be held if the person just looked at a topographical map from time to time.

This complaint is insane to me.

Russia is a huge country with massive amounts of natural resources that acts as a single political entity.

Europe is not a single political entity. It is made up of a bunch of different nations that all have to provide for their own militaries first and don’t have the same access to natural resources

The only entity this complaint would be valid for is the US.

TL;DR scaling matters, even for countries.

So what should be done to the country that blew up Germany’s oil pipes?

And you sound like a racist.

The person you were responding to correctly pointed out the destruction of the Nordstream was done by …well, not Russia. And the destruction of that underwater pipe ( very much like an underwater cable) was used as a propaganda point by trying to blame Russia for its destruction.

Not a hard analogy to understand.

Huh, racist and poor reading comprehension. I guess it should be obvious those two would go together.

It was either the US or Ukraine, depending on if you believe Seymour Hersh.

That single act destroyed the economy of Germany and is probably the single act most responsible for AfD doing so well now.

It would also have been the first act of war by a NATO member against another NATO member, if you believe Seymour Hersh.

It was far far more destructive then cutting an internet line, and yet everyone here seems to forgotten it because it is a problematic thing to be concerned by for thee people that want war with a nuclear power.

Jordanlund thinks that being a mod means that he, as a rightwing Portlander, knows more about Canada’s political system then a Canadian.

When called out with appropriate documentation after removing correct comments about Canada’s political system proceeds to ignore the comment for 18 hours at the time of this post.

I’m an admin for a different, non Lemmy platform, for about 3000 daily active users. I’d be embarrassed to have Jordanlund as a mod.

You know, Putin’s methods are the same as the US’s when it comes to overthrowing elected governments, right?

Apply leverage to an existing weak point.

Try to make it undistinguishable from a legitimate reason.

The problem, of course, is that none of this requires a Putin or a CIA to explain it. The actions of the health care industry is perfectly sufficient.

backups in the 2 times in your lifetime that such corruption actually occurs.

What are you even talking about here? This line invalidates everything else you’ve said.

The local population for the south is Hezbollah. Or, rather, their very popular base of support is in southern Lebanon. The people in Beirut that Israel likes to bomb, because that is the only type of military operation they are good at, are not the power base of Hezbollah, and often are ideologically opposed to Hezbollah.

Remember, the reason Hezbollah exists is because Israel invaded southern Lebanon, and the people there greeted then as liberators at first (remember, southern Lebanon is ideologically not allied with the people of northern Lebanon, the demographics of Lebanon are what make it a basketcase politically) Until they realized that the Israeli’s were going to take over there and continue to oppress them. Thus was born Hezbollah who successfully drove the Israeli’s out, and then did so again in 2006. Frankly, they’re the best light infantry fighters in that part of the world by a long mile.

The majority of Israeli’s themselves view 2006 as a loss. So far, it looks like even the moderate Israeli’s are viewing this peace deal as a loss.

One of the stupidest ways of viewing who won a war is by looking at death counts.

By that view, America won the Vietnam war, and Nazi Germany defeated the Soviet Union.

The Lebanese government is a basket case, and the Lebanese military is likely weaker than Hezbollah.

Any article that does not explicitly state that Hezbollah (and not simply the Lebanese government) agreed to a ceasefire is not stating anything of substance.

Now, Hezbollah said they’d make a statement today about this deal, and I haven’t seen the outcome of that yet. They may have agreed to it today.

The point is, however, that this specific article didn’t say what the person above said it did. Namely that Hezbollah agreed to anything.

I didn’t see a thing stating Hezbollah agreed on that article.

Tell that to them in 2006.

They’ve won everything they have through fighting. Turns out that the Israeli’s, like every other occupying force in history, find being an occupying force to be utterly corrosive to their fighting capabilities. Right now, without air cover, they are nothing.

Who is they?

How were ‘they’ defeated?

What does it mean to be defeated?

Anything from Rapidcreek@lemmy.world is certain to be propaganda.

They’re a genocide supporter.