nekandro @ nekandro @lemmy.ml

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IIRC these are the first proper deaths caused by military intervention in cross strait relations since at least 1979.

I would not be surprised to see China retaliate and retaliate aggressively, particularly since Taiwan's Coast Guard alleges that the incident occured "near Kinmen," which is a staggering 3 kilometers away from mainland China.

Israel

Perfectly normal bilateral relations in the rules-based international order

I question why the US is doing the rejection rather than Ukraine (and similarly, why the UK rejected the last peace talks...)

You're claiming that the same organization that was responsible for the design failure that caused Fukushima... Designed a reliable filtration system that's never been used before? When their federal government has every incentive to cover up a cleanup to stem the hundreds of billions in bleeding they're suffering?

The PIF consists of Australia, the Cook Islands, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and France's overseas territories of New Caledonia and French Polynesia.

Japan, fearmongering the big bad China so tiny islands in the Pacific ignore their dumping of radioactive wastewater? Couldn't be!

You're usually not supposed to talk about it though, because it's basically saying "I don't think the President is fit to lead"

The slow march towards the right...

Jordan not happy with Israel, sends electricity to Iraq instead

Syrskyi was born in 1965 in Vladimir Oblast, Russian SFSR, then in the Soviet Union. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Military Command School, the Soviet Union’s leading higher military educational institution in 1986 and served in the Soviet Artillery Corps.

Syrsky moved to Ukraine in the 1980s. He initially served in a self-propelled artillery unit equipped with the 152 mm 2S5 Giatsint-S and 203 mm 2S7 Pion self propelled howitzers, including in units earmarked to fire nuclear shells. He later served in Rocket Artillery units fielding the BM-27 Uragan MBRL. He served in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Czech Republic until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Born in what was then Soviet Russia, Syrskyi graduated from a military academy in Moscow and speaks Ukrainian with a heavy Russian accent.

An ethnic Russian, born East of Moscow, who speaks Ukrainian with a heavy Russian accent, and who's entire military education was centered around Soviet doctrine, is the new commander in chief of the AFU?

Bolsonaro's former international affairs adviser Filipe Martins was one of four other people arrested, the sources said. A lawyer for Martins said he was awaiting access to the warrant and supporting evidence before commenting.

Relevant details about Martins from Brasilwire:

After working at the TSE electoral court until the 2014 election, Filipe Martins became an “economic advisor” to the US embassy in Brasilia.

Martins, who is credited with introducing Jair Bolsonaro to Steve Bannon, worked at the embassy for the duration of the coup period between December 2014 following the election and July 2016, when Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment was all but sealed.

According to Martin’s LinkedIn profile, he was responsible for research about the political conjuncture and economy in Brazil, in particular bilateral relations with the US, and media monitoring during that coup period.

[Martins has] been an influence on the foreign policy of the Bolsonaro government, alongside the President’s son, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, who was accused by a former ally of handing a dossier of leftists and anti-fascists to the US embassy in Brasilia.

In July 2019 Martins met with the head of the FBI in Brazil, David Brassanini, who was accompanied by William Popp, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy. Brassanini is the main overseer of the FBI’s expansion in Brazil since Bolsonaro (and Sérgio Moro) took office, as documented here.

You mean it was all BS? No way!

Would you have flattened Ireland in response to the IRA's bombings? If not, why condone flattening Gaza?

The hospital ship just transited Bab el-Mandeb and is en route to Gaza

Ireland once again showing they're one of the only humane countries in the EU

If Sweden had found Russia at fault, you'd think they would be shouting it from the rooftops.

This is just strictly not true, otherwise Canada's Northwest Passage would be considered EEZ and not part of internal waters. EEZ is drawn from the extant point outside of the baseline.

Coup doing coup things

I always find it silly how Westerners have no grasp of reunification in a non-military manner.

In the same way say, France and Germany might have a unified economy or Canada and the US might have a unified culture, it's entirely possible to maintain legislative and/or budgetary independence under a unified front. In fact, that's already more-or-less true of China's governments: the proportion of government spending at the federal level is only 15% of all government spending. This includes spending for defence, science & technology, public security, public services, education, and diplomacy.

EJIL:Talk! is one of the leading international law blogs and provides some in-depth analysis of the ICJ's recent ruling on Ukraine v. Russian Federation.