Oh, you can fuck right off with that nonsense. I’m not both-sidesing anything. Israel committed (and is going to commit, almost certainly) more genocide. They are absolutely the bad guys here. Acknowledging that Hamas hasn’t been good for Palestine either isn’t at all the same thing as pretending they’re as bad as a country committing genocide.

I don’t expect elections before the end of occupation. I am 100% in favor of Israel getting the fuck out of Palestine, and fully support a Palestinian state.

It’s just important to be realistic about Hamas.

It’s Hamas. They existed as a terrorist organization long before now, and they’ve ruled Gaza without elections since the mid-2000’s. Israel is 1000 times worse - like I said, they’ve got a taste for genocide. But that doesn’t mean it’s pleasant to be a Palestinian caught between the two.

Yeah, this “peace” isn’t going to last a week, sadly. The Israeli government has a taste for genocide now and likes it, while Hamas doesn’t know how to stop being murderous terrorists. Mix the two together, you get… a lot of dead innocents who made the mistake of existing in Gaza.

Goddamn it.

Unfortunately, we have a first-past-the-post election system in most of the country (a very few places have ranked-choice). What that means is that most of the time, voting for anyone besides a Democrat or a Republican amounts to throwing your vote away.

That’s disheartening. I’ve been under the impression that even most of your conservatives generally find Republicans to be completely cuckoo. Is that not the case?

Aziz Ansari? Goddamn it…

Not sure this guy understands that if that actually happened, no Republican would ever win the presidency again, and the House and Senate would instantly flip to the Democrats.

Not yet, but come on… It’s Russia. No one actually believes Belgium or Finland or some other EU country did it.

Mystery Russian drone sightings

We all know Russia is doing these, right?

Would be exceptionally counterproductive if Denmark traced one back to Ukraine. Definitely wouldn’t be worth the risk of pissing off allies.

Bullshit. We’re hungry for Russia to stop fucking with the rest of the world, and for Russian trolls to stop playing these stupid games of “let’s you and him fight.” We’re also hungry for people like you to realize the EU is not the United States, and this isn’t Dubya going on about imaginary WMDs in Iraq.

In case you have forgotten, Russia is already occupying another country’s territory after launching a brutal, unprovoked invasion. They’ve already demonstrated a willingness to engage in both conventional and hybrid warfare to steal land and destroy cultures they consider illegitimate.

Stop fucking defending them.

Wait… You’re proposing that Ukraine would feel like stirring shit up with Denmark, because it would somehow get Russia to stop focusing on them?

Cripes…

First off, no they’re not. The whole point of a military drone is to have a military asset that’s hard to detect. And advantages in aerodynamics, fuel consumption, noise, and difficulty to track drop exponentially as size increases.

Secondly, you need specialized radar systems present in the area to specifically detect drones and differentiate them from birds, as I’ve already said. When the drones departed - assuming they did, since the Danish government isn’t actually saying what happened with them - they would have left the range of the specialized systems. Denmark doesn’t have drone detection systems covering their whole country.

Third, Finland and Lithuania have also recently had their airspaces invaded by drones. Which appeared to be coming from Russia.

Fourth, Copenhagen is the location for the upcoming EU summit. No EU member would have any reason to test the defenses in Denmark prior to sending their own representatives there. Russia would, if it’s getting more aggressive… Which it is.

The drones were almost certainly Russian. No one else has any reason to send them. Stop carrying water for Vladimir Putin.

These. Plural. Multiple drones. Multiple military sites. Simultaneously. And it’s funny you mention birds… Without C-UAS systems, radar has difficulty differentiating birds and drones.

They were detected specifically over military installations. You don’t think a group of hobbyist drone pilots got together and randomly decided, “Hey, let’s fly a bunch of drones over Denmark’s sensitive military infrastructure simultaneously, for reasons,” do you?

As for radar, drones are small enough to avoid detection by regular radar systems. They’re hard to track. That’s why they get used in military operations. To detect drones, you need C-UAS radar systems, which are typically installed at military locations - I believe that’s how these drones were detected - but once the drones were out of range, tracing them would be extremely difficult.

Exactly how? Track military drones how?

No one else has been invading the airspace of countries near Russia. No one else has been making it a habit to send drones in and then pretend it wasn’t them. Why would Sweden send drones over Denmark? Or Norway? Or Germany? Or Poland? Or Finland? None of its direct neighbors are at odds with them or experiencing any military tensions with them.

There is exactly one regional power that believes it has a claim on the territories of all its neighbors, and all their neighbors: Russia.

It’s Russia. No one seriously believes Sweden or anyone else in the region is sending drones to military installations and airports.

Are you joking? Of course they were Russian. This soon after the previous batch were shot down, who else would they be from?

Russia really is trying to start WWIII.