Gsus4 @ Gsus4 @programming.dev

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...and they are only 1 year too late...

Brawndo bleach, it's what the voters crave. It's got electrolytes :/

Nobody is letting them rejoin until they have a referendum with a decisive margin of victory and that will take decades, particularly with Nigel Farage agitating for little britain.

Did you see Chomsky's list? All presidents eventually become war criminals, even if it is by complicit passivity, even that "saint" Jimmy Carter (because of allowing Indonesia to proceed with genocide in East Timor).

By that standard, even Chomsky as president would have been a war criminal if he had just made a deal to allow Ukraine to be invaded by russia with impunity.

You get nothing for your cause by letting trump win. Nothing. And you will lose on lots of fronts that affect you personally, including protest, which at least allows you to control the israelis a little bit.

All of what you say is part of rejoinining. I said that at best they would revert to soft brexit (which is not rejoining) Switzerland and Norway are not it the EU.

At best, it may be "soft brexit", where you become a Switzerland or Norway. At worse, you negotiate a few things to facilitate trade and circulation...

If you insist in framing it that way, know that it comes with the job of being US president https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

and Biden is far from the worst in the war crime enabler list, considering he has to deter the most fascist Israeli government ever...

So...go vote for the least bad option that disempowers you the least.

Guys, I'm not american, but at least today answering the press questions (no teleprompter) Biden was dishing out wisdom about economics and geopolitics and very thoughtful...he is just not very good with the whole "slick reality show clown president to distract the cattle while you rob them" part :/

Meanwhile, in China:

Chinese are angry that West isn’t outraged enough by Modi meeting Putin 🤣

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/opinion/chinese-are-angry-that-west-isn-t-outraged-enough-by-modi-meeting-putin/ar-BB1pI80U

Cold war II is going to be 10x more confusing than cold war I

Look, ma, I'm on IV!

at least he can break free from jail too :)

Who did Modi kill?

I made my case. Read the sources, make up your mind, debate with your peers, what else do you want, to play flame war?

https://www.rferl.org/a/from-not-us-to-why-hide-it-how-russia-denied-its-crimea-invasion-then-admitted-it/29791806.html

I wrote that it is a smaller invasion, but sizeable enough to constitute an invasion and a war, I absolutely did not say that it is the same now as it was 8 years ago, don't strawman.

What are you saying again? That it is not a war if it is not large enough to be on the headlines you read every day? Because western media made a conscious effort to look the other way to avoid getting dragged into a conflict with russia for a country that had hardly an army to defend itself in 2014. If there were 30000 americans doing tours in Ukraine, you'd know. But there aren't even any foreign fighters of any kind inside russia, so that is no reason to think the USA is at war with russia, there is no analogy whatsoever with sending troops to Ukraine to back up the russian separatists. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-russia-soldiers/some-12000-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine-supporting-rebels-u-s-commander-idUSKBN0LZ2FV20150303/

I really don't get your point unless you're trying to be a russian troll.

Read the Nemtsov report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin._War

On August 15, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed DPR, stated that a reinforcement that came from Russia played a decisive role in the counter-offensive: "(There were) 150 units of combat armor, including about 30 tanks - the rest were AIFVs (Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicles) and APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers), and also 1,200 personnel who had undergone training during four months in the territory of the Russian Federation." Zakharchenko emphasized, "They were inserted here at the most critical moment." The decisive role played by the reinforcements arriving from Russian territory was confirmed in an interview in the newspaper “Zavtra” by the former33 DPR Minister Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov). The shifting of the front and in particular the deployment to Mariupol were achieved, in his words, "largely by vacationers, individual units of the militia which were subordinate to them.” "Vacationers" in Girkin's terminology are Russian military cadres who come to the territory of Ukraine with weapons in their hands but who are officially “on vacation.”

Vyacheslav Tetekin, a Russian State Duma deputy and a member of the Committee for Defense, estimated the number of "volunteers" who had taken part and were continuing to take part in combat actions in the Donbass to be 30,000 people. "Some fought a week there, some fought for several months, but according to the information of the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics themselves, approximately 30,000 volunteers have gone through 4 9 combat," he emphasized. This same deputy submitted for State Duma review a draft law on conferring upon "volunteers" the status of participants 50 in combat with all the relevant benefits.

This is a sizable invasion too. Smaller, but enough to become a war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas--

But why do you need to go fetch Israel as the ultimate measure that you need to understand the egregiousness of what russia is doing to Ukraine...when what russia is doing to Ukraine is both the crimes of Israel and hamas combined:

the crime of Israel's brutality without regard for human life

and

the crime of hamas's terroristic persistent attempt to destroy their neighbour at the expense of its own people

...there is no comparison here.

That is fine, MPs surround themselves with influent unmarketable secretaries and advisors they need e.g. Dominic Cummings, but the elected officials need to be the face of the team. That is usually how ministers do not need to be experts in a subject, it is their deputies who do the actual technical work and usually never get elected, that is not their job, but sometimes they actually will.