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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Why do I keep reading "lemonde" as "lemonade"

[–] Noodle07 4 points 23 hours ago

They have refreshing articles maybe?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't understand how shit like this does not already warrant to enact article 5. Russia sends literal sabotage units to us to physically destroy shit, as well as assassination squads to murder people. Those are and should be seen as direct attacks to our countries.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Because nobody wants to start WWIII. And you shouldn't want that too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Sink one Russian warship per attack. Russia doesnt seem to mind losing ships.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I like not having to survive a nuclear apocalypse, thank you.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Better than the slow cooking & societal collapse through climate change.

[–] CAVOK 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 22 hours ago

WhAt ArE yOu TaLkiNg AbOuT FaLlOuT76 was great!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What would be the benefit of open war against Russia, especially if NATO were to start it? I see absolutely nothing.

There's a lot of room for additional sanctions against Russia too. The EU is still importing fossil gas and nuclear fuel, for example. Countries like Cyprus and the UK can probably still freeze additional Russian funds. [...]

[–] jumjummy 2 points 17 hours ago

The best sanctions we could impose is a complete shutdown of all of Russia’s Internet access. You’d see massive reduction in disinformation across the web.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How would NATO start it after Russia repeatedly attacked us?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia emits misinformation, Russia attacks through Interwebs, Russia employs espionage, Russia sabotages. But Russia has not performed a full-scale military attack on any NATO country. And unless they do, in the eye of any onlooker, NATO would be the one to start the altercation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When would you say the Russian invasion of Ukraine started?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ukraine is not a NATO country, for better or worse. (It's anyone's guess whether Russia would have attacked Ukraine if they were a NATO member.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

because politics, that would anger china and we've made the absolutely galaxybrained decision to make ourselves basically entirely reliant upon that one country to survive :)))

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 8 points 1 day ago

More like because Russia still has nukes.

[–] jimmy90 14 points 2 days ago

i guess the evidence of massive coordination by Moscow was at the end of the article?

this would be a most flagrant act of war against France if so, no?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone have a paywall-free link?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

France arrests Ukraine-Russia national with explosives on terror charges - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-arrested-russian-speaker-possession-explosives-near-paris-airport-bfm-tv-2024-06-05/

Not the Le Monde article, but also not paywalled.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesus, the only reason they caught him was because he blew himself up making bombs? How many others are out there?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 4 points 1 day ago

I guess the trope of bomb makers missing fingers in movies is based on reality.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have 45.17% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I saw that. I don’t think that’s a “paywall” but a “subscription wall”. It’s not behind a pop-up, its behind a login. I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah french newspapers are annoying because of that