“We’re very tough but also too scared to threaten you directly, so just be afraid ok?”

Yay, new bingo cards!

The US had ice cream barges in the Pacific to produce fresh ice cream for troops.

USA has done next to nothing to help Ukraine or to put pressure on Russia.

Since the 2022 invasion, the US has given $135 billion in military and other assistance to Ukraine, as well as imposing wide ranging sanctions on Russia individuals and businesses. If that’s nothing, then Europe has also done nothing.

Oof, there’s some dumb comments there, e.g.:

Ukraine and Israel are de facto allies, more evidently in the last days when Ukraine hit Iranian ships

Does that count a perfidy, in a war crimes sense? It seems like it would but I don’t want to make baseless accusations.

I don’t think you’re remotely antisemitic, or at least nothing I’ve ever seen you write has given that impression. I’m just responding to a response to word in a comment which is getting lost here, to wit:

I would say it’s a massive case of not providing citation of Zionists (the State of Isreal to be fully clear what I am referring to.) Is actively blocking weapons to Ukraine.

The person above me asked why they said “Zionist” when they specifically meant Israel, and then I said what I did. I don’t think you even the term “Zionist,” in any of the removed comments, but feel free to correct me.

I really don’t know how I got here, tbh.

Because when they said “Zionists” what they actually wanted to say was “the Jews?” And I only mean that tiny bit facetiously, because why else do you need to immediately and defensively explain what you meant by that specific imprecise choice of terms unless it’s a dog whistle.

You’re so mad about this, and I can’t figure out why. I’m saying the Iranian government is bad, so when you say this:

Talking about how the Iranian regime “massacres and persecutes their own people” to support the the notion that America is less murderous and to claim that Iran’s actions of self-defense against American bases used to attack Iran in its allied nations around it aren’t justified (which is where this whole thread started) is self-serving tribalist hypocrisy.

It’s a non-sequitur. Nobody was defending the US and the only reason why they even came up is because you mentioned them by way of were praising an objectively awful government. It also occurred to me to ask since you put “massacres and persecutes their own people”,” do you think Iran doesn’t do that? Or is it just inconvenient to acknowledge it while fighting American imperialism online?

I don’t really know what you’re talking about and I strung the suspect that you don’t either.

The Iranian people are victims of their own government , it’s absolute garbage institution and should be destroyed and replaced with something that doesn’t carelessly destroy so many innocent lives. If you care about the Iranian people as you say, I have no idea why you want to condemn them to that hell with silence.

That shit is invariably wheeled out by aggressive, murderous foreign invading regimes (like the ones of American and Russia) to justify doing even more murderous things to the people of a country than those people’s regime ever did to them.

The glib willingness with which to write off all their atrocities with whataboutism and minimization is revolting, people like you are why those regimes continue as long as they do. Believe it or not, you can hate all the shitty governments, even when they’re fighting each other.

Mate, next to both America and Russia, Iran are fucking angels

Please stop. Iran’s government is an authoritarian theocracy with, among other things, a very recent history of massacring and persecuting their own people for protesting said government. They’re absolutely horrible and remain so despite fighting other states with horrible governments.

It’s good he’s ok, and I wish the drone pilot’s entire unit a quick and painful death.

Russian authorities denied that the property, which at the time of construction boasted an “aquatic disco,” hookah lounge, casino, pole-dancing room, and a room for miniature railroads, belonged to Putin.

Former KGB colonel turned dictator and international menace chooses to decorate his secret hideout like a Bond villain. Yeah, that’s about right.

In 2024, Russian opposition website “Proekt” claimed that the palace had been refurbished to reflect the Russian president’s newfound fixation with religion, writing: “The renovated version does not feature a casino, a striptease hall, or an arcade room. Instead, it has a chapel housing an icon of Saint Vladimir, Putin’s patron saint.”

And then he got real, real weird.

I should say that I’m just picking on tankies and don’t think it’s remotely fair characterization of the vast majority of leftists.

Who would have guessed that “scratch a liberal, find a fascist,” is more of an admission than an accusation?

In an effort to stabilize domestic supplies, Russia recently imported around 30,000 metric tons of AI-92 gasoline by sea from Morocco, Reuters reported on July 31, citing industry sources. According to the report, the shipment was delivered aboard a Panama-flagged tanker that loaded fuel at the Moroccan port of Tangier in mid-July before arriving at the Arctic port of Murmansk.

All the way to Murmansk? Obviously Novorossiysk is out, but even the Baltic ports aren’t safe? That’s unfortunate.

And part of a university in Belgorod that was developing drone systems. Can’t wait for the “war crimes” concern trolling.

Marx was a terrible historian with a poor understanding of actual humans and economics, and the fundamental flaws in his work are the primary reason why ML states fail so often.

It’s a weapons system Israel developed to deal with a real threat they experience, so prioritizing their own safety wouldn’t be a surprising choice. And if that were why they did it, it would be unfortunate but fair because defending yourself before helping others is a rational choice.

However, the real reason is because Bibi has been unwilling to do anything to upset the relationship with Russia for a long time, and the Ukrainians aren’t under any illusions about what their own relationship with Israel is actually like. That’s why thats tied buying the systems through the US.

If it were a Russian apartment building, I’d suspect Putin - that more his style, especially with the elections coming up.