If you want something to justify yourself about for life, I have one:
"America is a continent with plenty of different countries, why do you people from the USA call yourselves 'American' like you owned the whole continent?"
What seems to be popular is the inability of people to use basic Lemmy functions... not sure if because of UI discoverability, or because they really want some algorithm to feed them clickbait mush.
the many nations that have tried to unprovoked invade Israel
If we go far back in the history of the land... that list goes all the way to the paleolithic, and includes Israel itself. Some call it the "promised land", "holy land", and stuff like that, but in practice it looks more like the "cursed land".
I know de-nazification was half-assed; I lived in Italy, now I live in Spain, and man, 45 years after the fascist regime was "gone", there are still those opposing the removal of some fascist symbols. They used to argue that "it's too soon", now they're arguing "it's too late, let them be", while there are still people killed by the dictature laying unidentified in some ditch or another.
Guess we'll have to live and see where it all goes.
It's not about how old is the platform, it's about what you put into it. Is the F-35 still randomly rebooting mid flight? The F-16 hasn't had that problem for decades, and it can run modern hardware just fine.
Stealth planes are irrelevant in a dogfight, or in defending ground assets, and all those Su-* have been shown to be lacking proper maintenance for decades. We'll see how they manage against a fully operational and updated bunch of F-16s.
It's mainly associated with "Ukrainian Nationalists" since WWI, adoped by the fascist organization which took part in the Holocaust and massacre of Poles, whose members have been granted veteran benefits in 2019, and its emblem is being used by present Ukrainians.
I'm not defending it, and as a Pole I'm definitely suspicious of Ukraine's true intentions behind the slogan and the emblem... but I'm also pro-EU, and right now it's better to support Ukraine, than to let Russia think about which EU member state to invade next.
Afterwards, if Ukraine wants to get its shit in order to a level where it could join the EU and NATO... then go ahead. Germany did it, Italy and Spain did it, and we're all better for that.
Ukraine is getting fully functional F-16s, Russia has already shown that they tape down Garmin GPSs to their fighter jet dashboards. That's... not "marginally close".
Maybe Ukraine should regroup and stay on the defensive in the meantime, but I wouldn't bet on Russia in 2024.
A day earlier, Prigozhin published a video purportedly from Africa. Next day, he managed to get himself killed on a flight from Moscow. While being exiled.
Not sure what the CIA believes, but it's all sus AF.
It's mainly associated with "Ukrainian Nationalists" since WWI, adoped by the fascist organization which took part in the Holocaust and massacre of Poles, whose members have been granted veteran benefits in 2019, and its emblem is being used by present Ukrainians.
From Moscow: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/RUSSIAN-CRASH/PRIGOZHIN/dwvkaealmvm/
There were two jets though, the other one did the roundtrip fine.