Time for Europe to step up to bat for fucking once. We bailed them out of TWO world wars. This next one is on their doorstep, not ours, again. And on top of all that, America provided the MAD nuclear shield for the entirety of the Cold War.

I have been proud to support Ukraine from day-1 of the orc invasion. Now there is nothing America can do. If the Europeans don’t grow a fucking pair, to hell with them.

If y’all can’t stomach exterminating Russians, be ruled by them.

Sure glad the mod removed this post. Which made me want to read it by clicking “source”. So I read it. Backfire much?

The “use” is keeping 26-million ignorant, uneducated and otherwise backward people corralled.

I can’t imagine how Kim’s regime could be toppled without a tsunami of human misery. It would take 20-years to even begin integrating those folks into the modern world and I have no idea how it could be done gradually.

Add to that, their neighbors have zero desire to work on this.

LOL, they’re not even in the same country.

CEO pay means nothing at this scale. I get it though, it’s a big number, easy to point at and scream.

I did the math on American Airlines last year and if they paid the CEO nothing, that would give every worker an additional $.19/hr.

“condemn… in the strongest terms”

That means FAFO in diplomatic terms. This isn’t like you and I talking. When nation states use those exact words it means they’re taking action, no more talking.

All true, but Netanyahu was/is facing an ouster if elections come back.

quit messing with commerce message

Politics aside, that’s the message. Don’t care who you are, what you believe, what you’re fighting for, you cannot fuck with international commerce. That kinda BS hurts all of us, millions of us. That’s the idea behind treating pirates so harshly. Do not fuck with trade because every human society depends on it.

Not sure they even hear them. I’ve watched 1,000 Russians die, clueless anything was targeting them.

That’s actually pretty good! Sure, lots of tweaking to be done, but pretty good overall.

China is fucking over the Philippines, hard. They’re ramming and boarding their boats, fishing in their waters. We need a naval presence and a message to China that the US views their actions against our ally as piracy and we will sink the next ship fucking around. (I have no idea what’s going on with the Vietnamese.)

Beijing is testing what they can get away with, always has, always will. We need to call their bluff, no need to actually open fire. Promise they wouldn’t fuck if there was a destroyer group parked in Manila Bay.

Now I’m giggling imaging a Los Angeles-class surfacing as the Chinese navy approaches a Filipino vessel.

“Sup.”

That’s not capitalism, that’s human nature. If I don’t quickly take it, someone else will. The Tragedy of the Commons happens no matter the economic system.

Took me 4 tries. You try it!

Yeah, 9-months is getting out there.

• Philippines threatened by the PRC.

Keep in mind the challenges of fighting in the Arctic, for both men and machines. Even a top-tier military is going to struggle and Russia thinks they have a handle on it?!

It was walkie-talkies today.

And Obama bagged on Romney for it.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”

Saw a guy here on c/ukraine shoot down a cruise missile with a .50-cal mounted on a truck. 🤷

I doubt the poor person in question was running a high-tech X-ray diamond finder.

I wonder what percentage of people at least skim the story before forming an opinion.