Questy

If the criteria for declaring a state military organization as terrorists, is abuses of international humanitarian convention and the rules of war, then the Revolutionary Guard can pop onto the list along with the IDF. And a bunch of others really. Calling groups and people terrorists is pretty popular these days, but the word actually has a legitimate use, which isn't to ratify Israeli acts of war against other sovereign nations. Even if, like Israel, those nations are run by shit heads.

Ukrainians: "Fucking seriously?"

Bizarre that the US is immediately involved militarily to defend an occupying state currently and historically prone to atrocities against civilians. They seem so reticent to help an occupied state exercising great restraint in conforming to the rules of war, despite being victims of aggression and atrocity.

Perhaps Ukraine needs to make a totally reasonable argument like, "all Russian children grow into Russian soldiers." They could start bombing schools and hospitals, the Americans seem to admire that. Could lead to them helping to intercept Russian missiles and drones.

Obviously I'm not going to advocate for any needless killing of civilians on any side. Imagine being a historian trying to figure out what the moral compass of our governments were though, it's pretty much spinning at this point.

Jawless execution!

Huh. Anyway.

I prefer that they carry on showcasing the difference between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, by applying rule of law and respect for Human rights within their system.

If only they applied the same rules to Israel.

This is the reality of what's going on, the mainstream outlets aren't quite able to bring themselves to say it out loud. Any other nation but Israel and the sanctions would be ramping up, but here we are, still wondering if this is the atrocity that means we should stop shipping weapons to them.

Don't be too hasty, spend a little time with me before you get too carried away.

People seem to still be struggling with the Israeli strategy. Like many previous genocides, including the Holocaust, which the term originates from, hunger is a primary weapon. The Ukrainian holodomir, the Irish potato famine, the Armenian genocide, the goal is to save ammunition and simply remove the infrastructure of life from the target group. Israeli attacks have destroyed the water, power, administrative, and health care of the population. The issue now is that while the people are dying, international aid is mitigating the effectiveness of destroying infrastructure. A strike like this is so blatantly targeted because it's a signal. With 3 weapons they have shut down a channel that could provide critical nutrition to tens of thousands of borderline surviving Palestinian people every day. It's meant to have a chilling effect on relief efforts. Combined with the slow border checks, the political efforts to defund UN relief agencies, it helps accelerate the goal of removing the population from Gaza. It's not an accident, earlier strikes on UN relief warehouses and personnel weren't accidents, and the killing of around 100 journalists and many of their families weren't accidents. They're messages, get out of the way.

This is a little bit silly, that pretty clearly was a mistake, it also led to new ROE regarding the safety cordon around approved targets. Additionally Serbia was a combatant nation, that's why embassies often evacuate nations involved in hostilities. Israel routinely attacks 3rd country targets, they struck with multiple weapons. Syria and Iraq are not parties to the current situation in Gaza. The idea that countries with governments or general population that are not in favour of the IDF massacre of civilians means almost every country is "involved" according to Israeli targeting doctrine.

Well, Canada is a vast country with only 40 million people in it. Honestly pretty much everything said in the article is pretty reasonable. If you read through he points out the economic benefits of a growing population, but cautions that there needs to be a coordinated build-out of housing, transit, and social infrastructure like childcare. It's not really anything crazy. The article was put out in 2019 and states a population of 37 million, it's 2024 and we've ticked past 41 million. It's more or less on track, except for all that infrastructure of course.

We're at least having the argument. America and the EU are just shipping the weapons, business as usual. It's perhaps more useful to support efforts to clean up our arms export system rather than imply it doesn't matter because "historical human rights offences". Every nation has darkness (more or less) but export reform feels like progress.