Please no exploitation of gnc folk 🥺

“It’s crucial that your support for Ukraine doesn’t decrease but instead continues and grows,” Zelenskiy said, according to a text of the speech. “And this is especially true for air defense, military aid, and our overall resilience.”

It’s crucial, why? What will it accomplish?

Kallas has put forward a proposal for EU members to deliver as much as €40 billion in military aid this year, stepping up after €20 billion flowed to Kyiv in 2024. Assistance would be voluntary, but participants would be encouraged to make contributions in cash or equipment in proportion to their respective economies. After several countries balked, the debate was narrowed to focus this week on the ammunition component.

Amazing. Every EU country is rushing to ramp up military spending by using the war as justification. Hundreds of millions of euros have been slashed from welfare budgets. And yet, they don’t want to spend any of this money in the country where the war is actually happening!

He said Russia had suffered more than 50,000 losses during the operation - including those killed, injured or captured.

I love how they are clearly just making up numbers.

Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the Kursk operation had “accomplished its task” by forcing Russia to pull troops from the east and relieve pressure on Pokrovsk.

But it is not yet clear at what cost.

It’s over. Ukraine has been "at what cost"ed by the BBC.

So far this isn’t anything like that period in German history.

Seeing the rise of AfD and Germany’s agressive collaboration on the Israeli genocide, I have to respectfully say, liberals like you are willfully burying your heads in the sand.

Poland has been doing more than its share for Europe defense

Europe’s defense against who? Europe faces no actual military threats from anybody. And no, civilians in the imperial periphery or immigrants don’t count as military threats. For the last 3-4 centuries, the only nations who have been killing Europeans are other Europeans.

Americans are more likely to invade Europe than help them in a conflict.

Even Trump, who is trying to shake down Europe has actually continued/resumed aid to Ukraine. I can’t believe that Europeans are falling for a con from the world’s greasiest clown. He only postures so that you guys are scared into spending more money on NATO and American weapons.

Wakes up to do what? Kill more kids in the Middle East?

If NATO tries to get Ukraine to join, the war will be prolonged and escalated. If they don’t, then what the fuck was Ukraine holding out so long for?

NATO is stuck in between a rock and a hard place. There is no way for them to come out of this without taking a massive hit to their reputation (which would be well deserved).

This video is only further proof of this. Europe and America can only “solve” this contradiction in the tried and tested way. Choose the easiest option, loot the parties involved, massage public opinion then move on. And often these steps don’t even happen in order.

They kind of are, since the US military, finance oligarchy, industry and us aligned media completely dominate Canada. For the most part, trump doesn’t even need to annex them to make them into the 51rst state of America.

With the amount this man flip flops, he could power a hundred MW generator. Although this is to be entirely expected for anyone who remembers Trump’s first term.

For years, realist thinkers have been banished to academia or ignored. …

Every single example of the “realists” in this paragraph have them being the ones telling politicians to avoid war and expansionism, the exact opposite of the “strong bullying the weak”! I think it is kind of insane how this is how “realism” is characterized in liberal media. And that too as a “strong bullying the weak” ideology! Liberals have unironically become full on bush-era Neo-cons.

George Kennan argued against NATO expansion in these pages in 1997, predicting that it would inflame Russian militarism and undermine Russian democracy.

Damn, I didn’t know people predicted the Ukraine war that far in advance.

What’s brought about this turn? In part, it is insecurity, the motivation of all bullies.

Day 1041 of me painfully begging people to stop psychoanalyzing their enemies.

Even so, the United States and its allies are stronger than Team Russia and China if they stand together.

I’m beginning to think that when this author decries “realism”, they think “realism” means “being in touch with reality”.

While Mr. Trump embraces some elements of realism — giving in to the strong and sacrificing the weak — his tariff wars and threats against peaceful neighbors could end up being as costly as the military adventurism of the previous liberal order. Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus at the City College of New York, told me that people who expect the Trump administration “to follow the playbook of realism” by showing restraint “are going to get very disappointed.”

Other than the continued use of nonsense categories like “strong” and “weak”, I actually agree with this paragraph.

After Athens sacked Melos, word of its brutality spread. Its allies turned against it. Athens lost the war. Noble ideas, it turns out, do matter.

I know nothing about the history of war but I would be surprised if this is how it actually played out.

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I love how libs spam their jokes so obnoxiously they stop being funny.

God I hope that the US doesn’t somehow force the EU to import American agricultural products. Food safety is the one thing that the EU seems to actually do right.

CBSA officials seized some eight million grams of drugs compared to five million taken by U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) officials last year, government data shows.

Even when using SI units, Americans just have to make it weird somehow. 8 million grams? Who the hell uses grams like that? Just call it 8000 kilos or something

Ukraine didn’t take peace deals throughout the war because they thought the Europeans and Americans had their backs, and would let them into NATO for security in the future.

Now the Ukrainians have lost hundreds of thousands of people, huge tracts of land, and are about to be looted so hard it will make the looting of Russia after the dissolution of the USSR look like a cake walk.

The Ukrainians fought for a lie. Rule no. 1 of geopolitics. NEVER trust the Europeans or Americans. They will always backstab you.

A time complexity of N to the power of logN?

I can see why someone might have a problem with that.

I didn’t make the title. I just put the headline of the article as it was written.

Turns out it’s legal

Why would that be relevant?

The actual unique part about it is that China seems to be turning around the logic of encirclement on its head.

US allied forces periodically conduct similar exercises near the coast of China (with build up of weapons as well), using the justification that they can do whatever they want in international waters.

Even Australia sends helicopters and other military equipment off the Chinese coast. The Chinese have decided to give Australia a taste of its own medicine.

China’s aerospace sector is advancing, and it’s not clear the recruitment has been specifically prompted by the discovery of the asteroid. SASTIND did not respond to requests for comment.

Absolute clickbait article

Yeah, he’s openly very loyal towards bourgeois interests, but I do think it’s funny how billionaires have to walk on eggshells around him (meta changing it’s moderation policies for example). He’s clearly the one in charge. It’s an interesting 2 way relationship that I’m sure some marxist has written essays about in the past.

the United States isn’t structured in a way where the President can go against the will of the Bourgeoisie.

I think we are overestimating the amount of solidarity and power of the American bourgeoise, partly because that’s the image of strenght they love to project.

The state always holds a dominant position wrt the bourgeoise. If tommorow trump wanted American billionaires merced, there isn’t much anyone could do to stop him.

Yes the bourgeoise control american civil society and have some influence over various parts of the government, but trump is the commander of the armed forces and has a strong movement backing him.