clearly they did not approve bombing of aid trucks

indiscriminately

:-/

Gaza is a cautionary tale for that

Just like with Vietnam, it seems the measure of success is in blood. Since the population of Gaza has been decimated - quite literally 1 in 10 Palestinians are now dead and we’re expecting tens to hundreds of thousands more dead before the end of next year due to famine and disease, nevermind war - while the Israelis report minimal casualties, they believe they are “winning”.

We have seen this in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam…

The lesson of these wars to the political class is that they win reelections, they generate enormous profits, and they never seem to bother the median voter over the long term.

Israel has had a scope on the head of every Arab and Persian peace activist in the region. The only folks who seem capable of surviving are the ones armed and willing to fight back.

They cannot block a decision of the federal constitutional court

Given the concentration of AfD in the Eastern Block, you’d be inviting the region to pull a Catalonia and threaten to break away.

Germany has measures in place exactly for this scenario

Riot police, sure.

Read the article. It’s already happening.

Place your bets. Place your bets.

And it’s nonsensical to claim we cannot ban them

Who is going to pull the trigger? Point to the opposition leader willing and able to try and dismantle a party with this many active supporters.

We have laws against undemocratic parties

Which are used to target unpopular fringe groups not regional majorities. The UK would have more luck banning the SNP.

That’s like a core mechanism of our democracy.

The core mechanism of democracy is to abolish political organizations wholesale?

That rather speaks for banning the AfD though.

Belling the Cat.

We have a law for banning fascist parties

You have laws for banning use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations. These have been deployed most aggressively against Communists, Socialists, Islamists, and - post USSR - against Russian Nationalists. Currently, it is pro-Palestinian Jews who suffer the most from application of these laws.

The AfD is that its being fueled by a ton of right-wing media. It isn’t just a party springing from the soil ex nihilio. It is a consequence of right wing press flooding German society. And as the press builds support for the AfD, the AfD helps shield these press organs from censorship by the state. Its a self-replicating trend.

Can you ban a party that’s got a plurality of seats in the Parliament? Or will they be the ones banning you?

I mean, by all means, feel free to give it a shot. But it seems like you’re asking an elected government to do a thing it isn’t designed to do. MPs aren’t going to vote against themselves.

How can it do nothing?

If you pass a law but never enforce it, the law does nothing. That’s assuming the Parliament could even pass it in a government that’s thick with AfD MPs.

Ban them now

They won’t, in no small part because the AfD has enough seats to block the attempt. Also, doesn’t help that lots of the enforcement wing of the German government (particularly in the national security services) are AfD or AfD sympathetic.

We’re well past the point at which Germans can do to the fascists what they did to the communists back in the 1990s - ban the party outright and seize their assets. Now they’ve actually got to make this a political fight, rather than a legalistic one, because they turned their backs on the AfD for far too long.

They’re calling it Greater Germany, folks. It’s their land. The illegal Poles stole it from them. Very bad. Gotta get them OUT!

I’m not saying Romani, Slavs, and Czhechs are subhuman folks. But I’ve been hearing a lot of good Teutons saying it. They’re excited about what we’re bring to Eastern Europe. They’re tired of the belly dancing. They’re tired of the stealing. They’re tired of the Communism. What even is a kolache? I hear its made from HOT DOGS!

Time to for a German for Germans, ladies and gentlemen. I think we all know what that means. Maybe its time we finally find a solution to this problem. I’ve got one. I’m not going to tell it to you, yet. But I assure you its going to Make Europe Great Again.

If German Nazis were running the government today, you can guarantee we’d be getting the rankest shit out of Auschwitz while some CEO at IBM insists Germany has a right to exist.

And they kill women.

Double taps are bad no matter who does it.

Glad someone else is brave enough to acknowledge this.

Given the Israeli position on military rape, it’s just a different flavor of attrocity.

But a 20 year old male? It’s easy to argue they could have been an enemy combatan

The age old problem of “excess males” solved by declaring open season on anyone with facial hair.

Whataboutism

Are you arguing the double taps are bad because they’re war crimes or because they’re Russian?

When Russia loses, their war crimes will be prosecuted.

America is on the cusp of pulling out of the ICJ entirely

double tap is in fact a strategy Russia is using

Hardly unique to the Russians. The “Collateral Murder” video of US war crimes in Iraq was from a helicopter employing a double-tap strategy on a group of civilians fleeing the area.

Also popular in Gaza and Lebanon, as employed by the Israelis. And in the Philippines, by the government against insurgents. And in India during the invasion of Kashmir. And by the Syrian and Turks in their war on ISIS. And, and, and…

Russia is a terrorist state, that must be stopped.

War is the act of committing crimes unimpeded. All states engaged in war are in the act of committing terrorism. When you hear people talk about “necessary evil”, this is the evil their necessitating.

We pretend it’s ok by saying that we have high accuracy high precision cluster bombs.

Why would you want precise cluster bombs? The whole point of a cluster munition is to spread the effect over a broad area.

They are doing very well

Its crazy to see people double down on this line two years into the conflict.

Nobody is doing well. This is a war of attrition that’s ruining Ukraine’s interior, devastating its population, and obliterating its economy. The absolute best thing you can say about the conflict is that Russians are also losing lots of blood. But that puts the terms of “victory” entirely within the scope of “How many dead Russians have we produced?” rather than “How much of Ukraine is there left to save?”

What they need is more weapons.

Who is going to be using them?

good.

Cluster bombs dropped across the country will be killing people decades after the war is over.