Going nuclear is such a huge risk though. It's a threshold that can't be taken back.
Israel could use a nuke to call a timeout, only for a nuke to go off in Tel Aviv in a few years in revenge and permanently end the settler project.
Such a dirty strike by the Russians. They've had such a good record of avoiding civilian casualties so far, but this strike was unusually and callously bloodthirsty.
It's evil behaviour more comparable to NATO and IDF tactics where the civilian casualties are the point.
The US is already disappearing political dissidents, that's the situation.
This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community.
This fake government in exile and their westoid backers have no regard for law or democracy.
The Venezuelan government really isn't afraid of these Guaidó plays. That or they are stupid.
I honestly doubt 750k people have been killed on either side, even with Russia dropping 7x the shells/bombs per day (as per Ukrainian military sources), and 90% of casualties being caused by shells/bombs (as per Ukrainian medical sources).
Ukraine and their backers aren't capable of agreeing to this, they're just too deep in the fantasy. The only reason I can think of for making this declaration again, which is really just a call for Ukraine to recognize the current reality of the situation, is for posterity.
A last off ramp before the Russians commit more and then demand more for resolution. It could only be a matter of time before Russia insists on Kharkiv oblast as a response to the terror bombing of civilians in Belgorod.
Perhaps allowing those kinds of articles to be published is a warning shot to Israel to reign things in a little.
James O'Brien who spent years shouting down any pro-palestinian viewpoints on his shows?
The number of people that can see through the imperial media narratives is disturbingly low.
Media outlets repeat just the narratives they are given by the imperial apparatus, laundering them with the veneer of civil consensus. Without that media laundering to make it palatable to the target audience, the message becomes very mask-off and uncomfortably raw to most viewers, such as the IDF clearly stating they're aiming for genocide.
Makes me wonder what needs to be done.
You don't get points for trying to be unrealistically civil with apartheid occupiers who think you're subhuman. The ones who literally cannot stand to be in your filthy presence without you being legally subject to their racial hierarchy will fuck off back to a country that coddles poor oppressed loser racists like some Rhodesian's did.
The rest will stay and become a real part of the land, rather than a vicious, poisonous tumour growing over and consuming it.
I wonder if Niger's pivot made it clear that Prigozhin had outlived his usefulness.
Took a swing and the king and missed. I'm surprised he lived as long as he did.
Staines
joined 5 years ago
Fully agree.
What Iran really needs to do right now is build unity, destroy the enemy within, and keep hitting the entity every day. There's no point escalating at this moment unless the US starts bombing air defences and the IRGC. There's also no point de-escalating; as we've seen from Lebanon and Syria, Israel will continue bombing regardless.
Keep up the pressure. No negotiations (Negotiations are literally pointless when you're in a weak position, since their only purpose is to extract concessions, not work out peaceful co-existence). Build the nukes.
As soon as nukes are tested, sanctions will be applied. Acquire sufficient volume of weapons to ensure deterrence against first strikes. Apply counter sanctions (destruction of all oil shipping going to countries that are applying sanctions). Go in hard for the new world.