Well, now that Russia is occupying an American lithium field, maybe the US will say Russia is attacking the US.

I wonder if the whole point of the mineral deal with Ukraine was to create a new cassus belli

Oh yeah, I got spam bombed by one but also got harassed by a few others.

Unsolicited abusive DMs - such a common trope among reactionaries

Love that libs are down voting actual truth because it comes from RT instead of BBC

Oh fuck I didn’t even read the rest of your drivel.

Japan was LITERALLY NEGOTIATING SURRENDER when the US nuked two civilian cities.

WW2, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iranian coup, death squads in Latin America

What are you even taking about?

That opinion article is absolute trash.

The idea that the Bolsheviks fought to preserve the boundaries of the Tsarist empire, including invading Ukraine, is absolute nonsense. Ukraine was one the founding members of the Union and the USSR was the first formation that recognized Ukrainians as a nation and actively promoted their distinct national heritage, language, and culture.

The Bolsheviks did fight against a subset of Ukrainians, specifically the anarchists, because the anarchists literally organized an army and said “now that the Russian revolution is over they are weak and this is our time to strike”. So they were crushed. But not in any way, shape, or form because of a reasserting of Tsarist imperialism.

So yes, this article is complete Western consent-manufacturing trash and can be safely ignored as such.

That’s not what propaganda is. Propaganda is much much bigger than that. First, if state media is propaganda then you have to discard BBC, NPR, and Al-Jazeera, among many others.

Second, if you only look at state media you miss the decades of infiltration and manipulation of Fox, NYT, AP, and many others by state actors.

Third, if you forget how class works, you miss the centuries of propaganda produced by private media companies with leadership that collaborates with the state to maintain and expand their power.

Example, when China banned opium, it was British merchants who owned newspapers that published inflammatory stories calling for the royal Navy to intervene, this starting the Opium Wars.

You HAVE to read everything because everything is propaganda and you ARE capable of learning from it without being swayed by it.

Name Russia’s imperial holdings

Imagine a bat fight that you started, you are trying to avoid being hit so you are in a room in another part of the bar. Suddenly, a projectile flies through the walls of the bar and is stopped at the last minute before it hits your square in the head. What stopped it? The neighbor of the person you picked a fight with.

That’s what Iran did.

You’re psychologizing. Russia as a nation does not have a psychological need to reestablish it’s former Tsarist empire. It’s entire aim militarily is to prevent encirclement by the US.

To me, this is a sign that the resistance is activating in the face of greater and greater certainty that the US is about to make critical grand chessboard moves. Iran is the key position right now. If the US moves against it, we all better hope the US is the paper tiger we think it is.

Commenter wasn’t saying that the point of contention was the plane type. They were saying the point of contention is that these unnamed experts claim this type of plane is often used for weapons and military persons and didn’t claim any other use for what is likely the most common large air freighter in the skies.

I don’t think AWS was impacted. I think the article was just explaining that an outage to services like AWS would be disruptive

Orientalism to the max holy fuck

They were strategic bombers, specifically exposed for inspection and surveillance because they were part of nuclear capabilities. Destroying any of them is such a massive escalation towards MAD that I am still trying to wrap my head around the whole situation.

Let’s not forget that Kuwait is a country that the British made-up for the sole purpose of exploiting the region’s oil fields.

I’ve only heard about the one attack on Ben Gurion. How many more have there been?

Would Zelensky rather the US bloviate while Russia continues to roll the UA? US silence does nothing to the military situation.