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.

China’s literal label for its vision is to build a “Community of Common Destiny for Mankind”.

China gives a fuck about humanity because, newsflash, they are humans.

You really have no access to reality, do you? In what world is Russia anywhere close to collapse? It’s a top global military spender and producer, it’s a huge arms exporter, it has increased its military production capacity, and it has destroyed the hodge podge of military equipment that the West dripped into Ukraine.

You think Putin believes Russia can conquer Europe? No wonder all of your analysis sounds cracked.

Because the idea of a European alliance is nonsense. NATO IS the European alliance. And NATO’s strategy for defending against Russia is a nuclear killchain with one critical position in Ukraine. What would a European alliance do? Not defend against Russia? Or defend against Russia in a different way? Would they do that while still in NATO or would they have to dismantle NATO first and then build this alliance?

It’s nonsense. You can’t just make a new transnational military that is capable of defending against Russia by just saying “European Alliance”.

The UN doesn’t have sufficient military to do such a thing. They would need make an alliance to be strong enough against Russia, or it would have to the be the US. This is what we have now, it’s called NATO, and the point is that NATO advanced on Russia. So sure, you can say the UN will enlist all the NATO countries to fight Russia, but only in defense, and no one in Europe would agree to that.

Still delusional. Russia has no interest in attacking Ukraine. Learn the history. Every single Russian intervention into Ukraine has been in response to Western meddling.

You want the Ukrainian people to be safe, get the West the fuck out of it

Was disappointed to find it was only rhetorical flak

This is delusional. It’s not a personal vendetta against the USA. Nuclear Europe fielding military in Ukraine is a red line for Russian national security. Until people understand the reality of security, you’re all going to be blathering idiots.

There are two positions on security - it’s either I am secure while you are not or it’s we’re both secure. Mutual security is the only way that peers can engage sustainably. Assymetrical security cannot be sustained by peers.

Ukraine being a non-militarized buffer between Europe and Russia is critical to Russian national security. Any arrangement where Ukraine is militarily aligned with the rest of Europe is an asymetrical security situation where Europe has security at the expense of Russia losing security.

It will never be sustainable.

Russia will either establish Ukraine as fully demilitarized with its constant oversight for the next several decades, as a result of the violation of trust that the US and EU committed, or Russia will occupy Ukraine. These are the only two options that establish mutual security and thus are the only sustainable options. Anything else is an escalation by Europe.

Wait till you learn about Hiroshima and Nagasaki

There is going to be a war launched against China that the USA will lead and it is currently trying to figure out which countries will support the war effort and which will resist. NATO may end up being an occupying force in Europe to discipline any country that doesn’t support the USA’s belligerence, and NATO will certainly provide sufficient cover for collaborative war activities like recruiting soldiers from Europe, deploying them to hot spots, and occupying resistance nations for “peacekeeper” missions.

I am genuinely concerned that we are running towards the big one.

Need I point you to WW2 and the failure of Comintern to convince any meaningfully powerful movement in Western Europe to adopt revolutionary defeatism?