zerfuffle @ zerfuffle @lemmy.ml

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If you look at everything through the lens of Palestinians being subhuman, Israeli actions make more sense.

Interesting how many "detained citizens under espionage charges" are working in fields that would line up with espionage. You don't see a software engineer get detained in China for espionage...

Peace in Israel would shift attention back to Ukraine. I'm fairly sure the US doesn't want that. There are 5.8 million Jewish people in America, compared to about 1 million Ukrainians. It's clear which conflict the US would rather have dominating domestic media.

The last time you saw your friend, he had a gun pointed to his head. The next time you see your friend, he's dead and has a bullet hole right where the gun was.

What exactly do you think happened?

[citation needed]

Being a world leader is expensive. Both the US and USSR have showed that. It's also contrary to Chinese doctrine stretching back centuries.

It was either to draw forces away from the true frontline or to force Zelensky to step down. It ended up achieving the former and not the latter.

Russia has no chance of actually holding Northwestern Ukraine. They have decent odds in Southern and Eastern Ukraine because of demographics, but they'd be fighting Ukrainian nationalist insurgencies (a la Gaza v. Israel) if they tried to occupy Kiev.

The USSR had the same issue - Ukrainian nationalist sabotage coupled with negligence and malicious intent on behalf of the communist party individuals responsible for Ukraine (who were later executed by Stalin during the purges due to this failure) led to a famine that killed millions. Ukrainians want to be independent, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all of Ukraine is dominated by ethnic Ukrainians. It's not.

According to Israel, every Palestinian is subhuman and needs to be eradicated.

In that light, I guess this bombing is a success?

US: curbs semiconductor exports to China

Europe: curbs lithography machine exports to China

China: curbs drone exports to Europe

Europe is entering the "find out" phase of "fuck around and find out." This is what shoving a knife into the back of globalization in the name of national security gets you...

Not that China's semiconductor competence would have affected European security given that China has neither the means nor the desire to project power outside of their immediate vicinity.

Except worse, because Russia at least tries to come up with shoddy intel most of the time. Israel is just outright making shit up

Journalists are all working for Hamas.

Israel literally said that they would bomb the hospital, had bombed the hospital in the past, and bombed other targets near the hospital that night. I'm really not sure how people are still doubting that they did it even in the absence of a smoking gun.

Why did Roosevelt wait so long until launching a Western Front? By the time the US had troops in mainland Europe, the Soviets were tearing the Germans apart and outmaneuvering them on the battlefield.

The US' contributions to the Japanese war machine prior to Pearl Harbour are a big factor when evaluating American influence on WW2. American resources single-handedly sustained the Japanese invasion of China.

Common perception in France right after WW2 was that the Soviets made the single largest contribution against the Germans out of any country. That perspective has been progressively rewritten.

It's telling that the Allies only opened the Western Front after the Soviets had thoroughly defeated the Germans multiple times and were at a real risk of reaching Berlin and then sweeping past it.

Operation Barbarossa had stalled by the time the US entered the war. German logistics were overextended, they were out of oil, and they were against a larger, rapidly industrializing power defending their homeland.

By the time D-Day rolled around, Army Group North and Army Group South were taking loss after loss and the USSR had reclaimed a significant chunk of the land lost during Barbarossa. The Germans were in collapse. Roosevelt had promised a second front in 1942 but couldn't deliver until 1944 (when it was clear that the Soviets had a clear shot at Berlin and had the momentum to keep going).

The Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive put Army Group Center in an increasingly precarious position even as Russia continually gained ground in Byelorussia.

Prior to Pearl Harbour, the US funded the Japanese as the Japanese committed countless war crimes and genocide in China.

China will be happy to replace coal with oil and gas. Net positive either way, I think.

Democracy and free speech, ladies and gentlemen.

Considering Israel's dropped like about 1000 bombs a day in this conflict so far... You're free to work back to figure out how many munitions Israel has sent at Gaza, and you're also free to propose how Gaza got access to so many explosives despite being completely blockaded.

So Egypt has intelligence, but Israel doesn't, but also Israel does now? Interesting how the IDF only seems to have intelligence when it's convenient for your narrative.