Whenever I read an article like this or about the probability of extraterrestrial civilization, I think there is the enormously hubristic assumption that “technological civilization” is, from an evolutionary perspective, a long-term success strategy.

Like, behaviorally modern humans are maybe 100,000 years old, the epoch in humans actually do enough stuff in the world to be force relevant to climate and biodiversity is maybe 5-10,000 years.

Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is obvious and maybe being a shark who swims and eat fish is an evolutionarily superior pattern, technologically civilized societies are evidentially doomed by the observation made in the Fermi paradox.

They’re also starving to death so I guess we won’t see them. Too bad they didn’t make it but I guess we can rest assured they certainly did turn up.

North Korean Troops in russia Are Starving in Kursk Region

The deployment of North Korean personnel in russia continues, with forces from the 92nd and 94th Special Forces Brigades operating under the command of russian units. These contingents are reportedly integrated with russian forces such as the 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment, 810th Separate Marine Brigade, and 11th Separate Air Assault Brigade, taking part in combat operations in the region.

So they’ve already been taken as POWs but haven’t been deployed yet and they are in Ukraine but only in Russia and they are too poorly trained to fight yet but are taking part in combat operations without food and then one North Korean looked at me because he thought I was porn.

3.6

Bibi should fly to Germany. Make them take a stand.

Technically it should trigger Article 5

Article 5 has strictly defined geographic boundaries.

And an embassy isn’t actually considered sovereign expatriate territory anyway, that’s a myth.

It would be a huge escalation, for sure, and it would be against the norms of war since one of the oldest international norms is that you treat a diplomat generously, and the NAFO hawks would scream about it and NATO might choose to interpret it as grounds for escalation anyway because it’s not, in fact, a legal document but a political instrument anyway. But technically, legalistically, treating the NATO treaty as a contract rather than an instrument of US hegemony, it wouldn’t count.

I think it’s useful. It forces them to show their hand. That’s not nothing.

It can’t force them to stop. The only thing that can force them to stop is the threat of nuclear annihilation, and even then they’re willing to roll the dice if the odds look good.

At least the UN is able to force the USA to reveal its hand, that it is in fact opposed to a cease-fire. What more can you expect without a nuclear arsenal?

It’s a very symmetrical response but it would piss of the Saudi’s

Gretanky

Zionism is antisemitism.

The desire to expel Jewish people from Europe.

Zionism is antisemitic. Jewish people are Europeans. It’s an ethnic group with roughly 80% European, mostly German and Slavic, ancestry. Rejecting them as Europeans, excluding them from “whiteness” on the basis of religion and tradition, and wanting to expel them from “the west” where they “don’t belong”, absolutely is antisemitic.

Everything under the sun is connected

Larger cities like this took 3-6 months to fall though and we are getting close to the mud season which would fuck with supply for a major assault. It could seize up again with Russia sending the prisoner units into the city to do the dirty work for a few months while the rest of the army takes the opportunity to progress more in other areas.

Surely having the city under siege would be as disastrous for the Ukraine supply situation as if it were in Russian hands so, in the tradition of predictions, I anticipate another slow meat grinder here with gains elsewhere along line at least until winter.

Potentially time enough for yet another defense line to be built somewhere to protect Dnipro.

Telegram chats aren’t even encrypted by default so the governments and ISPs can easily read them. This is entirely because it’s a channel for information they don’t want shared.