Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress
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"They can't do that! You can't negotiate with Hitler, remember? That's appeasement!"
"Who are they to tell Ukraine anything! It's a sovereign country! By telling them to negotiate they're basically helping Putin! Fuck those pro-Russian traitors!"
"Ukraine's negotiation position is weak now, they will be in a much better position after the upcoming spring offensive!"
UN says Gaza Health Ministry death tolls in previous wars ‘credible’:
The Health Ministry, which utilises data from morgues and hospitals to reach its figures, released a 212-page document on Thursday with names and identity numbers of those killed.
Israel says they dropped 6000 bombs in the first 6 days (that was two weeks ago) on one of the most densely populated areas in the world, on people that are not allowed to leave. They said the "emphasis is on damage, not accuracy".
Here's the latest update from the UN human rights commissioner were they again allege Israel bombing civilian buildings.
Pretty much everything that's coming out of there from civilians themselves, from journalists, the UN and even Israel paints a pretty clear picture of the IDF dropping thousands of bombs on civilians. But I guess you'd rather pretend that there's some uncertainty and doubt about this.
The business press often has better grasp on reality, because the managers and capitalists that read it actually care about getting correct information for investment purposes. Dismissing all pro-capitalist publications out of hand is not very wise. You can read them critically, you know.
You think state actors are targeting lemmy? That seems like an incredibly bad investment. Do you think the troll farms boss would be happy with me posting on here instead of facebook or twitter?
It's actually far more likely that your opinion (including this hot take right here) has been formed by many an organization or rich dude throwing money at promoting their views in both traditional media and social media. Of course this place here seems out of place to you, you're the one that has taken the propaganda at face value.
China is exertng their economic power in Africa nation building all the time.
Exerting? How? Are they threatening sanctions like the US? Are they forcing "structural reforms" on them like the IMF?
Their nuclear arms stockpile is fastest growing.
Says who? Last time I checked the US stockpile is more than 10x larger still.
China make a habit of stealing IP so much [...]
Does this comment have a point or are you just collecting random brainworms?
You can see some holes in the walls, but I don't know enough to say if this explosion was specifically engineered to cause shrapnel damage (maybe not). Israel has bombs that can be set to explode in the air. Hamas rockets are very simple and can't do this, you need a doppler radar for that . And if you look at the damage other than the crater, there's plenty of damage tens of meters away, on the sides and roofs of buildings, on treetops, on cars with the dented in roofs that aren't very close to the crater. On pretty much all sides of that courtyard. This is too large of a radius for one those small rockets that Hamas & co are firing. Never have I seen or heard of any of those rockets causing this much damage.
And I've read these OSINT threads on twitter, they're saying it's rocket + fire damage from unspent fuel (hence the burning cars), but they're just looking at the radius of burned out cars and the small crater. They're totally ignoring the damage that's further away, and so that explanation does not make sense when you include that evidence.
There's also plenty of circumstantial shit, like Israel shelling this hospital as a warning two days earlier, and telling them to evacuate. Al Jazeera also documented that there were other Israel airstrikes within the same couple of minutes in the area, which btw create a very similar sound and fireball. Then there's the voice recording that according to the experts in this article here is an Israeli fake.
So, the explosion is inconsistent with a Hamas rocket, but not with an attack from Israel. Israel practically announced that shit and they've been caught lying about it now multiple times.
The roofs of pretty much all the cars are dented inwards. If you search for images of burned out cars, you can see that fire doesn't usually cause dented-in roofs. This means the center of the explosion was above the cars, in the air, and was probably much bigger than the small crater would indicate.
Yes. You can make an argument that some of the land was legally purchased, but even at the time, this was part of a plan of colonization and ethnic cleansing, so it's essentially property owned by a criminal enterprise or its members. Palestinians also deserve restitution for decades of oppression. So IMHO all property owned by Israel, any Zionist institution, or any Israeli found guilty of taking part in the oppression may be seized.
Israeli settlers need to give back the land they stole.
Imagine what a court in your country would decide in this case:
A man breaks into a house, kills some of the residents, and locks the rest in the basement. He then lives there and raises a family in this house. Decades later, his children still live there, and there are still prisoners in the basement, and they are routinely abused. The children obviously know all this.
- Would the court expel the children from the house and give it back to the original owners or their descendants?
- Would the court find the children guilty of crimes?
What's more strange is that 5 people today commented on this 4 month old post.
"Both sides"
However, recent data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) shows that since 2005, 96% of deaths have been Palestinian.
Every time the oppressed fight back, libs immediately start to create a false equivalence with the oppressors.
Greens now to the right Merkel on this. I'm making the Green-voting libs among my friends and family uncomfortable by pointing this out. The Greens have dropped every issue they ever pretended to care about. Main reason I hear for why people still want to vote for them is lesser-evil-ism or because they feel protective of them against far-right rhetoric. No matter that the Greens are also a nationalist, neoliberal, racist, imperialist, militarist, green-washed ghouls. Main difference between them and straight up conservatives is in rhetoric: the Greens will cry and moan about "having to do" this stuff, and how that's actually good for you. Except with the imperialism, they did the crying and moaning already during Kosovo, now they're on a straight up mission to spread freedom and democracy to the backwards people like they're channeling George W. Bush.
Ah you're right, there were also conscripts in some Waffen-SS units. Looks like this guy volunteered though, as it says in the article:
A blog by an association of its veterans, called “Combatant News” in Ukrainian, includes an autobiographical entry by a Yaroslav Hunka that says he volunteered to join the division in 1943 and several photographs of him during the war. The captions say the pictures show Hunka during SS artillery training in Munich in December 1943 and in Neuhammer (now Świętoszów), Poland, the site of Himmler’s visit.
In posts to the blog dated 2011 and 2010, Hunka describes 1941 to 1943 as the happiest years of his life and compares the veterans of his unit, who were scattered across the world, to Jews.
I guess they couldn't confirm that this is definitely that same Yaroslav Hunka, though that would be some coincidence. Not only did he volunteer, he loved it. And what even is that comparison? That doesn't sound like a person who has learned anything.
Their values and goals didn’t necessarily align with those of the Nazis, other than they had a common enemy.
You call it "not necessarily aligned, other than". I call it very much aligned. The difference in opinion can't be that big or important if they're willing to kill and die under Nazi orders.
Many peoples were forced by circumstances to fight alongside people they didn’t like.
He volunteered to join the SS. Nobody was forced to join the fucking SS. Did you mean to say "really wanted to fight alongside", and what's your evidence for "people they didn't like"?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/30/georgia-attacks-unjustifiable-eu
EU investigation says Tbilisi launched indiscriminate assault on South Ossetia
An investigation into last year's Russia-Georgia war delivered a damning indictment of President Mikheil Saakashvili today, accusing Tbilisi of launching an indiscriminate artillery barrage on the city of Tskhinvali that started the war.
In more than 1,000 pages of analysis, documentation and witness statements, the most exhaustive inquiry into the five-day conflict dismissed Georgian claims that the artillery attack was in response to a Russian invasion, accused both sides of violations of the laws of war, indicated that war crimes had been perpetrated against Georgian civilians and rejected Russian claims of "genocide" in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia.
Putin has shown he’ll keep on invading neighbors so long as he can get away with it
How the fuck has he shown that? How many countries has Russia invaded since Putin got into power?
Even the US foreign policy people have been warning that Russia won't accept NATO in Ukraine. This is why they invaded, not because Putin is a serial invader, because he very clearly isn't. You know who are actually serial invaders? The US and their NATO entourage.
different conceptions of democracy
This is kind of my point. Western liberals claim their representative type of democracy is the only correct way to have democracy. But in their version of democracy, economic power allows oligarchs and corporations to own and control the media, there are countless legal (and illegal) ways to influence policy and bribe politicians, and the police and courts routinely suppress anti-capitalist and other emancipatory movements, organizations and individuals.
Giving lectures about democracy when you're at the helm of a country that is actually ruled by the capitalist class is hypocritical.
In China, the people directly elect local council (e.g. village or town level) representatives. Those local council members than select who among themselves to send to represent them at the next level above. This continues all the way the National People's Congress and the Standing Committee.
This sort of organizational structure is more-or-less how political parties in Germany also work; so by that logic the Green party itself would presumably be an undemocratic institution.
OK, but the CPC can control who is allowed to run in elections, right? Well, Germany banned its communist party: In Germany, any organization (and their members) that wants to abolish the liberal order, capitalism, private property and so on is subject to repression, surveillance and outright bans, and this is enshrined in the constitution. So no fundamental difference there either: In Germany the liberal institutions decide who can and cannot run, and they have decided the commies are out.
Empirically, the Chinese government enjoys way better approval rating than any Western government, Chinese people believe themselves to be living in a democracy, and the Chinese administration seems way more responsive to the actual needs of the people, what with the poverty reduction and all. How is this possible if they're so much more undemocratic than Western liberal democracies?
These drone strikes are more about improving Ukrainian morale, rather than hurting Russian morale.
Can't win a war on symbolic victories alone. When they run out of real recruits it won't matter that the NAFO dork army is still in high spirits as they imagine Russians cowering in fear.
Biden said something like: "If there was no Israel, we'd have to invent it."
The US loves having a highly militarized, violent, totally amoral and 100% US-dependent proxy next to all those oil fields. The last thing the US wants is peace in the middle east. This is just divide-and-conquer 101.