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Germany: "Ok, so like, we definitely kinda did a bad right? But what if helped you guys do the same bad, are we back in bro-town?"

Russia is using a similar strategy, it's been in practice since WW2. Destroy everything and move forward into the rubble. Innovation in urban warfare is the type of low collateral precision combat that became a feature of counter insurgency fighting during the "War On Terror". Also, the statement that "all evidence shows..." is blatantly false.

Now that article 5 has entered the chat, Gripen watch is back on. What I'd love to see is a more standardized situation where, instead of scrounging some F16s, we see a procurement contract. Would be a shiver down the collective Russian spine if they announce that Gripen E is the new mainline jet of the Ukrainian air force, and that deliveries will start Soon™. It has connotations. These aren't a loan, they're not a gift. We bought them, they're Ukrainian, and you may just see them flying sorties over Russia. 120 airframes with sustainment and weaponry, some tasty Meteor missiles sprinkled in.

Probably wishful thinking, but you never know.

Unfortunately that option has never been tested against a nuclear weapons state. That makes a huge difference. Iraq was a powerful regional military when they invaded Kuwait, a coalition of forces promptly rocked up and slapped the empire building off their face.

When Russia invaded Ukraine the situation was similar in every way but one, Russia can respond to a catastrophic battlefield outcome with nuclear escalation.

Israel both has nuclear capacity and has very little strategic depth. Whatever doctrinal tripwire they use to determine the deployment scenario for their nuclear deterrent could quickly be reached, meaning that moving in force to end the genocide is functionally impossible.

Currently we would be able to tell that our governments are actively trying to intervene if we see sanctions starting to appear. Right now the Whitehouse can say what they want to damage control the situation, the US is actively providing political, economic, and material support to the activities of the IDF. If that stops, then you know they are trying to do something, until then, keep protesting.

Of course they will. This little spat with America over how difficult the genocide is for Biden's campaign hasn't slowed down the flow of material aid. They know they can do whatever they want, they've pushed as far as broadly declared and publicised genocide without significant consequences, really the only boundary they have left to test is nuking Tehran or something.

This reminds me of the scene in Schindler's List where the Nazi officer takes a rifle out onto his balcony and amuses himself by shooting and killing some of the Jewish camp inmates. Once a group has it's humanity stripped away from it the darkest side of people will show in how they are treated.

First part, correct. Second part is confusing. Pravda is an online news publication from Ukraine started in 2000.

While I'm sure folks appreciate the context, I think the appropriate response to this post is, "Too soon."

That said, I would very highly recommend the Fall of Civilizations documentary.

It's not about our own under funded military, it's about the export products. Canada has a sizable arms industry. For example we have exported over 1000 Senator armoured vehicles to Ukraine. We are a project partner in the F35 program as well, which I assume will mean that deal will be grandfathered to allow Israel to continue to receive them. This is unequivocally a good announcement, hopefully it will lead to more nations moving away from supplying the IDF.

Kruggsmash is so creative and cool. I don't play DF, I bought a copy though because I love watching the stories it creates. I hope I'll get into sometime, but just a little support in the meantime.

To be fair, this is far more accurate than 97% of the usages of "blasts" in a headline.

I agree and support calling out human rights violations and atrocities. So US, do you have any other current tourist locations you'd like to add to the list? Or stop providing material, economic, and political support for?