but if they’re earnest about putting these down to kill Russians
This is complete nonsense from military point of view, like Maginot Line but way worse, since mines by themselves ain’t gonna stop anything, especially on a potential front so wide. But eurocrats are now on this level of malicious stupidity they might as well believe in their own delusions.
This is 100% reason from the Poland govt, they will kill the refugees and then blame it on Belarus using their favourite phrases like “hybrid warfare” and “human wave”.
Would be funny if Iran didn’t seek to wrap up fighting with Israel.
Not even on DPRK. In case of dealing with USA peace is the question and nuclear bomb is the answer.
Great effortpost 
one of the comments picked my interest:
Iran was ready to sign a nuclear deal with Trump. Just two weeks ago, Iran’s lead negotiator, Ali Shamkhani, who was assassinated by Israel, said that Tehran was ready to commit to never having nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use and allow international inspectors to supervise the process. This was in exchange for lifting all economic sanctions — NBC news
Is that even true? If so, it is monstrous stupidity bordering on treason. Especially Iran should know best that any nuclear deal with US is worth absolutely nothing and is only preparing ground for an agression. Which happened anyway, for as long as they don’t have nukes of their own, they are easy target for warmongers. Especially the last line is absurd. Even if US just this once kept the promise it’s still getting rid of years of development in exchange for a piece of paper that can be reinstated at any time for no inconvenience for USA.
They spent a lot of that on Yemen though.
And he was not the only one official killed, it points to ridiculous level of infiltration by Isn’treali/USA intelligence to be able to pinpoint many individuals whereabouts to conduct coordinated strike in one night.
Unserious wannabe novelist tone, complete lack of verifiable sources, cartoonish portrayal of Russians, heroization of Ukrainian Nazis who have openly bragged about supporting terrorist groups in the Sahel…yup, checks all the boxes of three letter agency propaganda.
Don’t forget about projection checkbox since all those was exactly what US agencies were and still are doing.
No. ISIS is western puppet and its Sahel version is no different especially that only thing it does is terrorizing and attacking people in states trying to shake off Euromerican colonialism. This is more of a discovery that west had been funneling support to terror groups in Africa specifically through Ukraine (and where at least part of the “missing” arms deliveries end up).
In the meantime, Russia is supporting popular anticolonialist governments in the region to fight off terrorists.
This article is wild, defunding from USAid broke their brains completely in several directions at once. On one hand we have absolutely uncritical russophobic paranoia accusing Russia and “Russian agents” about absolutely everything, on the other hand they completely confirms every accusation against the recruitment process, even mentioning some episodes that was never reported or hushed outside Ukraine.
And even more:
A man killed the officer during an attempt to kidnap his acquaintance who had recently been mobilized into the army.
They openly even call this “kidnapping”.
In February alone, the SBU detained dozens of individuals who it said were recruited by Russian special services and involved in sabotage activities in Ukraine. Among the detained were both adults and underage citizens who acted on Russia’s orders.
Boldening mine. Absolute paranoia aside, it seem somebody was learning security procedures from Israhell. Imagine how much heinous shit is and will be covered. I hope for afterwar investigation that will uncover full extent of banderite crimes against the people of Ukraine.
“Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children, and old folks. Dead nazis are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, i am saving lives.”
-Lyudmila Pavlichenko
They are usually crusty old men so it counts as fossil fuels though.
They got me until the last line
Huawei is experimenting with humanoid robots driven by AI so you wouldn’t have to be professional programist to order them to do something but it’s still the future, though i seen videos with such robots already manning warehouses.
I was just commenting about physical feasibility of things, which idealists like the lady in question don’t seem to understand. Which is especially funny considering even that can be traced to capitalism, which don’t give a shit into real scientific advances but the quick buck lying on the path of easiest resistance. As is easily checkable by western media and writers spending decades fantasising about such advancements in robotics, but China actually doing more about it in few years once they finally overcame their overexploitation by the west.
The clear distinction here is that Russia could resettle literally everyone, whereas Jordan absolutely couldn’t.
No, that’s no difference. You could add Egypt, Syria, etc. Point is, you want to solve the “problem” by exiling undesirable people from the country ruled by nazis. 3rd Reich, Israel, Ukraine, it’s the same situation. You want to explicitly appease nazis, i don’t know how much more straight i have to say this since you apparently does understand that not every resettlement is equal and the same, but you keep ignoring the base issue here in favour of liberal “nonviolence” and pacifism which ends up actually feeding the nazis.
Problem is, your laundry and dishes, not to mention bathroom cleaning, still need a lot of manual labour that AI can’t do because it does not exist in physical world outside of computer, but the art and writing can be done just inside of computer.
My understanding is that Russia has been heavily shaped by the Western-orchestrated collapse of the USSR and the ongoing isolation of Russia to keep it on the periphery
Correct, but it’s not 90’s now, they had spend quite significant effort to change this and dialmat dictate we acknowledge that they are now not only not isolated but one of two main forces driving antiimperialism and global south cooperation. They also, while still remained capitalist, reversed much of the neoliberal organisation from back then.
starting a war was the best way to defend Russia or to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
It’s not that i disagree with you, but they did tried everything else first but Ukraine western handlers were pushing for war hard to the point of treating formal international agreements they signed and ratified like empty scraps of paper. Again, they only intervened literal days before AFU planned offensive that would end with a massacre in Donbass.
give humanitarian refugee status to ethnic Russians
Majority of Ukrainian citizens who emigrated from Ukraine since 2014, did so to Russia. Russia did exactly what you said.
and rescue them peacefully for resettlement in Crimea
Again, Russia taken in literal millions of people running from economic and later military violence by UA government. Also it’s very similar argument as “why they couldn’t just resettle Palestinians to Jordan”. People of Donbass clearly decided their selfdetermination in 2014 (same as Crimea). Donbass also got a long history of not wanting to be in Ukraine, Lenin in one of his biggest L’s just told them to shut up and suck it up, Stalin did the same in 30’s (with more reason though), and same was in 1991 and 2014. They simply don’t want to be Ukrainian and have over a century of consistent history of it.
and then defensively prepare for any aggression.
This is also what USSR and later Russia do since 1945 (or really in various conditions since 1800). Needles to say, it didn’t worked.
I don’t understand the connection people have with their land
Fair enough, but it is one of the main components of nationalism, arguably one of most important ideological constructs of modern world, and was equally important for millenia before. Probably originated in neolithic sunk cost effort or something like that :)
I’m probably trivializing the trauma of moving people around to keep them safe and improve their economic conditions
I also have mixed feelings about that, i definitely do acnowledge what you mention here, but also i do support resettlement in certain situations (like most of WW2 and post WW2 by USSR), i guess it largely depend on situation. USSR did not had any genocidal intent doing that (as lack of Latvians living on the shores of Arctic sea clearly shows), and it was even the opposite - imagine the shitshow in the 90’s without post war resettlements of Germans, Poles etc.
Yes it would be very much worse. Genocide in Donbass was already ongoing and Russian intervention thwarted massive AFU assault against DPR and LPR. It would be massacre.
Secondly, Russia somewhat recovered after even the nightmarish 90’s, which for US planners mean it was not enough, this time they would loot even nails and most likely aimed for balkanisation. Imagine Yugoslavia but much worse.
Thirdly, the real target of entire endeavour was nor even Russia but China, taking over Russia would means economic, political and military trouble for China, encircling it and probably (or rather certainly looking at last 5 years) also destroying most of its Belt and Road initiative gains.
Finally, Finland was licking boots of every protofash and fash since 1918. It was de facto already NATO member, it changed nothing.
I cannot stress this enough, no matter how you do dislike Russia, its intervention in Ukraine stopped imperialists in their tracks to yet another round in world domination and started an event chain that could potentially lead to demise of imperialist core and quite possibly save us all and planet.
Yeah i doubt even the total loons like Kallas really expect Russia to attack them. It’s about maintaining their cushy imperialist stools in EU and in times of faltering capitalism naturally they will resort to fascism to do it, and fascism needs The Enemy.