u/MarxMadness

"Purposefully" is debatable, but whether intentional or by happenstance, damn it really is odd that so many descendants of Nazis are all over my imperial core countries that backed tons of fascist coups over thr past 75 years.

**According to Defense Minister Israel Katz**, the activists refused to continue watching the film after seeing the brutality of the attacks.

So this headline is probably a lie.

It's simultaneously:

1. The broader U.S. imperial apparatus (e.g., the State Department) understands Israel's importance for the U.S. and backs it for that reason

2. All sorts of minor U.S. politicians who don't really influence foreign policy face a major hurdle from AIPAC if they don't sufficiently support Israel

The U.S. is predominantly running the show, but Israel has agency too, and its state policy involves filtering out U.S. politicians who might oppose its interests as early as possible. This includes a massive amount of pro-Israel propaganda intended for mainstream consumption, harassing professors at colleges, etc.

Every politician who supported this should face a Nuremberg-style tribunal.

Have to apply that thinking to Democrats, too. They were backing Israel unconditionally from the jump, and were so married to that support that it probably cost them the election.

"Well we could immediately escalate any conflict to end human civilization" is not the boast you think it is.

Look at the current war in Ukraine -- the closest we've come to direct conflict between two nuclear superpowers. Nukes are useful only to the extent they make the other side think twice about a large, conventional invasion. If you actually use them against someone who can retaliate, you lose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-military-human-shields.html

>After Israeli soldiers found Mohammed Shubeir hiding with his family in early March, they detained him for roughly 10 days before releasing him without charge, he said.

>During that time, Mr. Shubeir said, the soldiers used him as a human shield.

>Mr. Shubeir, then 17, said he was forced to walk handcuffed through the empty ruins of his hometown, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, searching for explosives set by Hamas. To avoid being blown up themselves, the soldiers made him go ahead, Mr. Shubeir said.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/middleeast/israel-gaza-human-shields-investigation-intl/index.html

In an interview with CNN late last year, an Israeli soldier said his unit had forced a Palestinian man to enter a building ahead of troops...

The exact scale and scope of the practice by the Israeli military is not known. But the testimony of both the soldier and five civilians last year indicated that it was widespread across the territory: in northern Gaza, Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.

One of the civilians, Mohammad Saad, age 20, told CNN that IDF soldiers had detained him in Rafah.

“They would ask us to do things like, ‘move this carpet,’ saying they were looking for tunnels,” he said. “‘Film under the stairs,’ they would say. If they found something, they would tell us to bring it outside. For example, they would ask us to remove belongings from the house, clean here, move the sofa, open the fridge, and open the cupboard.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/israeli-soldier-palestinians-human-shields-gaza/

Tommy [an anonymized name] said his commander ordered his unit to use Gazan civilians to search buildings for explosives instead of dogs....

Breaking the Silence has acted as a watchdog body over the Israeli military for more than 20 years. It said it had corroborated Tommy's account with other soldiers.

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Multiple eyewitness accounts from both sides, and stories from anonymous sources match up with each other, as well as with stories of named sources.

ethnic Russians’ history of ethnic cleansing

Maybe because "the Russian brainpan is predisposed to genocide" is self-evidently racist and nonsensical.

Conscription for popular wars doesn't get to the point Ukraine is at. The U.S. drafted soldiers in WWII without the situation deteriorating to this point, for example. Then when they tried that for an unpopular war (Vietnam) it created all sorts of problems and the draft was scrapped.

Cool campfire story

The communist party however has already covered up

The conspiracy theory here is *this.*

Moat people still don't connect arming extremists in Afghanistan in the 80s to 9/11. There's an obvious risk of a bunch of Azov Nazis turning to terrorism against former allies who "stabbed them in the back" here, too.

You think China peacefully reintegrating Hong Kong from British rule is... *Chinese* imperialism?

Have any good articles on this? My knowledge of that period of Russian history is pretty spotty.

See Trump calling them "raw earth minerals"

They could barely penetrate a Ukraine with its pants down

The rest of your comment is spot-on, but this isn't a good assessment of the Russian invasion. They're very clearly fighting a limited war (i.e., they don't want to occupy the whole of Ukraine, they just don't want a U.S. puppet and NATO member as a neighbor) and it's possible-to-likely that their initial sprint to Kyiv was only withdrawn due to the early peace talks that the UK and US scuttled.

literal children, or Russian bots

"I'm so fucking smart, no reasonable person could possibly disagree with my flawless takes"