I was shocked because the west was saying there were "150,000" troops built up on the border, when Russia would have needed triple that for starters before initiating a vaguely successful invasion. Morally, invading Ukraine was the right choice to rescue Donbas. Militarily, it was half cocked.

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.

Honestly I have no idea, I just thought we could do with some more comic relief after watching the US telegraph an enormous wind-up punch and do exactly what was expected.

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 one that hit a bunker penetrated easily and definitely obliterated the planes inside. I'd say maximum there's room for 3 planes at a push in that hanger.

There are several near hits on other bunkers, so clearly at least maybe 10 or 20 percent of the missile salvo was dedicated to the F-35s.

Yeah if I was Iran I'd want those tankers dead. Mostly because the F-35 can't reach Iran without refueling.

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).

Perhaps allowing those kinds of articles to be published is a warning shot to Israel to reign things in a little.

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.

currently trying to genocide

This piqued my interest, since a lot of the Uyghur genocide narrative collapsed years ago to the point that even the journalists that were reporting it began walking it back.

Taking a look at who is currently reporting on "Uyghur genocide" in 2023, and it's all organisations like Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, United States Institute of Peace - basically (literal) US government propaganda agencies reporting on the US congress proceedings.