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Comment #49060109
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celebration_parallax
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Comment #49058290
“This is how you "negotiate" with Turks: you kill dozens of them, then don’t apologize.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes
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Comment #49014470
> tempted to respond in kind Has nothing to do with it. > It's basic human nature. No it’s the nature of a proxy war, the nature of a gambler with no post-war future, the nature of…
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Comment #48894326
This year, so far and among other things, we’ve had an illegal war against Iran, an illegal blockade against Cuba, hundreds of civilians murdered in the Caribbean, the murder of a …
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Comment #48852378
But they dutifully support those who do, materially and diplomatically. Carrying significant political cost, internally as well as externally.
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Comment #48720659
More from Ukrainian public broadcasting: https://suspilne.media/kropyvnytskiy/1340118-smerti-vid-pnev...
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Comment #48689745
This is about forcibly drafted men (particularly those with additional issues like addiction) who get sent on assaults with low rates of success and high chances of death (or serve…
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Comment #48686539
Polemical original title distracts from the content. Full article. Quoting the author: Ukrainian liberal media writes about it, but only in Ukrainian. Not for western consumption.
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Comment #48531896
Self-fulfilling prophecies need prophets.
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Comment #48529023
> Any reasonable leadership would have cut their losses yet here we are. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKxeuY7bMAEwZ30.png Indeed.
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Comment #48528337
> The country that’s getting 55% of its state budget from the EU isn’t a proxy. Not to mention the munitions, the weapons, the training, and above all the access to the US’ trillio…
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Comment #48527872
It’s conceivable that Russia could force the West to back out of the proxy war. But then they’d get proliferation in Europe, Taiwan, South Korea, and other places. And Usrael would…
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Comment #48345293
> the standard "modern" war For the US and friends is terrorizing the enemy, his forces, his civilian population into giving up. Is feeding a civil war until he crumbles. > bomb th…
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Comment #48214056
The classic HN trope of a non-rebuttal presented as rebuttal. And you conveniently left out the link in the sentence: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/31/congress/ma..…
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Comment #48213159
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/17/massie-aipac-record... It literally was. And wait till you find out you find out who Epstein et al. were working for.
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Comment #48213014
You, as many do, forgot to mention the root cause: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-iran-war-request-israel... > The meek recent Senate protest means nothing. If the elites did…
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Comment #47673718
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Comment #47673179
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-repatriates-bodies-of-1-... 1000 Ukrainians for 38 Russians. Such exchanges with similarly lopsided ratios happen every couple weeks.
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Comment #47515860
The notion that the bombings constituted an informed political decision intended to forestall an otherwise unavoidable invasion, and that Japan wasn’t ready to surrender is a compl…
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Comment #47402980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Distribution_of... It’s just the latest implementation of a winning formula.
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Comment #47389102
Did that language imping on the interests of America’s ruling elites, its security apparatus, or the interests of a certain entity in the eastern Mediterranean? No? Then we’re talk…
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Comment #47389009
The “opposition” that oversaw the Gaza genocide. No, they are, in the words of German Chancellor Merz, perfectly happy to let Trump do their “dirty work.” All the better if it blow…
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Comment #47386016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity
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Comment #47378821
> I'm no fan of the party in power in the US, but I can campaign and speak out against them. I can raise money to oppose them. I can band together with like minded individuals to p…