sorta, it was slower. The politicians would tell each lie for a few days to a week. The buildup took months. They also coordinated their lies with other nations so they would repeat the talking points instead of the euros just ad libbing shit like "Iran cannot have a nuke" and "israel has a right to protect itself."
And the us was sure to tell the lies before they started bombing.
“For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.”
Nope
Thanks again for your effort. You're posting like a trooper but don't forget to eat and stuff.
I think the military censor on both sides is tightening up so we are hearing a bit less.
I'm pretty sure this is the last war israel will have. I really think this was the tipping point and now the ukraine war will be seen as the beginning of ww3.
That is a lot of words to say "stop hitting yourself"
No it wasn't but the situation wasn't necessarily terminal before trump. Tariffs are the anvil that broke the camel's back. The us might have been able to make some changes and keep limping along for an undetermined amount of time but tariffs were not the move. It was a doozy of a fuck up and there ain't no going back now.
I love how the article makes an attempt to elicit sympathy for the propogandists who's immigration status is tied to spreading lies in their homeland and slandering anyone the imperialists don't approve. I hope there are angry mobs to meet them when they go home in june.
The advantage usa gains isn't against Russia and China directly. Its against everyone else. usa, Russia and China aren't going to nuke India/Pakistan if they nuke each other. Everyone knows where the missiles are going. If they aren't the target they wouldn't want to set off the MAD cascade. Everyone would just watch.
usa has been proved to be a paper tiger. (they can't even subdue the 10th poorest nation in the world) If they want to force their will on a smaller nation they just can't do it anymore. Their economic weapons have been thwarted and workarounds are in place. Their navy is losing billions of dollars in jets to a nation who's entire air force is a hand full of helicopters. Their tanks and troop carriers have been proven to be 2nd rate and their recruitment is in the toilet. Modern anti air is better than american jets or stealth tech. Regime change and Color revolutions just don't work anymore. The empire's power is slipping through its hands like Jesus holding a marble and everyone is watching.
The one thing that nobody can argue against is the american nuclear arsenal. (Russia and China could but don't want to because it would be messy) But usa can't use nukes to bully people because they have been locked by a unwritten rule that nukes are only to stop people from attacking you. The international rulebook is in the process of being shredded. The ICJ ICC and UN have been trashed by israel. Genocide is back on the table but the one thing that could turn everything around is if america used its nukes offensively. The whole world would turn against them if they crossed that line.
So how do they get past that blockage? How do they get the only tool they have left out of the tool box?
They get someone else to crack the seal first, break the taboo. but it can't be done in a way that brings condemnation. The use of nukes needs to be justified. So if both sides have and use nukes? That's a victimless war crime.
Then usa does a demonstration (which would be Yemen and they'd claim they had a nuke) and then anyone not explicitly protected by a large nuclear power is prey to nuclear blackmail. Canada and greenland would be part of america in months.
Maybe I've just gotten more careful but it feels like the blatant lying in news has gotten worse since trump first said "Fake News" back in 2017.
Anything that threatens the western hegemony and imperialism must be destroyed because it threatens the comfortable life that the 1st world gets though neo-colonialism which is institutional racism at a international level.
Tankies want to make the first world share their treats with the "unwashed masses" of the third world and pay them a fair rate for their resources and labor.
"The electable left" (aka liberals, democratic voters, etc) are actually crypto-fascists. Fascism doesn't attack the liberals way of life. It isn't a serious threat to their treats so they don't rail against it.
Trump used to be a good liar now he is just pathetic. This is really funny.