International law is something which most of the world is currently trying to reconstruct right now. Most countries don't go all "yeehaw, God said I get to kill you" in their official statements & media, they have a redundant, lawyerly quality to their words

I mean yes but also there are still reports of drones being shot down so it's tenuous

I can't believe that Israel would do something like that

Look I hear you, the way the US does nuclear power has a lot of issues, it's really an industry that requires strong state backing like what China and Russia have going on.

To be fr fr though I think it was some carry-over deal from the Bolsonaro years and there hasn't been a re-up

Does adding body text make it not do the catbox embed? I swear that worked before

Burkina Faso will have gone nuclear by the time they finish this shit

Some % of that was fake news

Jolani's policy is very much a yeehaw libertarian Bukele/Zelensky kind of thing. The main support base for color revolutions is the petit boug and professional class. So, no, seeing a few rallies in capitals, and your uncle getting excited is different from having a broad working-class base. Some of the Syrians celebrating getting more power were unknowingly receiving what was diverted from minority populations being blacked out.

It appears that some people are more interested in winning shower arguments from months ago rather than reconciling with reality. Gambling with predictions about who lives and dies is too perverse for me. You'll have to forgive my disgust and lack of enthusiasm.

The [he/him] doth protest too much, methinks. Nobody called you CIA, I'm sure you'd love to monologue about how special and rare high ranking feds are the way that Wyatt Reed and Seth Harp types do. You're special in your own way. So, presumably you guys have been doing class analysis of ISIS then, and discussing the similarities between the Free Syria movement and what's happened in Ukraine and Georgia? Rallying the professional classes and petit boug around the forces of imperialism with the backing of mercenaries and all that

That's such a broad, unsupported, vibes-based assertion that asking where you got it will only elicit another, but I have to ask. On the Assad thing, see, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Syria, which refused bilateral cooperation with numerous countries because Assad's pee paw told him that allowing foreign investment would sacrifice sovereignty, and was more keen to deal with Turkey, is now said to have been thrown under the bus - by the people who believed Jolani was an improvement over Assad a few weeks ago.