They are just edging this bill till nobody pays attention. Democracy at work!

The only substantive aid it delivered, was aid Israel in the massacre of Palestinians. Team America at it again.

Up next: PayPal introducing new AI that purchases random shit for you.

I’m starting to get the feeling that “X is playing chess while Y is playing checkers” is an indicator species for a terrible take.

I’m not a fan of American foreign policy at all, but following the European news lately I don’t know if our governments can be trusted without the US providing security.

I fear that the moment European nations need to be serious about their own defense they become way less trustful of their neighbors, creating all the incentives for an arms race. Especially with the current crop of nationalist politicians it’s not hard to imagine a serious cool down in the relationship between a France and a Germany lead by Le Pen and the AFD (in a coalition government or not). In such a world it’s suddenly way less pleasant to be a smaller nation that can not seriously compete with Germany or France.

I really hope I’m wrong and that we truly learned the lesson from the second word war, but I think not needing to provide our own security plays at least a role in the relative peace within the EU member states.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck; it is not a duck.

Hey America, ruin our economy further you c*nts, it’s really appreciated.

Kind regards, The Netherlands

Oh no!

Anyway.

Historically low approval ratings, starts escalating a war. Where have I seen this before?

A ceasefire or a negotiated settlement. This continue-west war mongering is complete bs, they can’t even take Ukraine. How is Russia ever supposed to roll over Europe.

Plus taking over all of Ukraine is an unattainable war aim of Russia, their army and economy is not sufficient to subdue such a large population on such a large land mass. Especially considering how cohesive the Ukrainian population has been thus far. So if both sides can not realistically achieve their goals there is room for a positive sum negotiation.

I know it’s not a popular opinion but how about we don’t escalate a war with a nuclear super power.

In history a war ending in total victory is a rare thing, peace is much more often achieved with a negotiated settlement or a ceasefire. Now with nuclear weapons a total victory is even more unimaginable, whatever the war aims of the West they are not worth the risk.

Just to be extra clear: A ceasefire does not mean recognizing the occupied territories. A negotiated settlement does not mean no consequences for starting a war of aggression. But the people that decided to escalate this conflict are not the ones dying on the frontline. The soldiers dying are conscripts, people that did not have the means or connections to escape this horrible fait.

You can not make this shit up. Jesus fucking Christ what a world.

It was a rhetorical question, but yes, April 12: dragged out of embassy, November 19: Sweden drops charges. And soon thereafter America suddenly says they would like to extradite him to the US even though they denied this for years while Assange was in the embassy.

Luckily political dissidents don’t need to fear for their life/freedom in the west, ow wait.

Btw what is up with those rape charges, or did Sweden conveniently drop them the moment Assange was pulled from that embassy?

Yeah let’s not reflect or even think about the fact that Germanys economy has possibly been torpedoed with the go-ahead from, or directly by, its biggest ally.

What about tripling the penalty for driving over a toddler?

https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-8-times-more-dangerous-kids-walking-or-cycling-295527

No idea what this is about but upvoted for the cats

General, it has come to my attention that there are hospitals in Gaza that haven’t been bombed yet, quick deploy the troops!

In your statement you are completely disregarding the security concerns of the Palestinians, calling the current state of the Gaza strip a ‘token of good will’ is absolutely ludicrous. If you really believe this I would invite you to read the wikipedia article on the great march of return: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests.

On apartheid I will simply refer to the judgment of HRW: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/19/israeli-apartheid-threshold-crossed

And finally it is not stupid idealism to want to end the current status quo in Israel, I think it has become clear over the last few days that it is not possible to suppress a population without some kind of response: an apartheid state is a state of violence. And I hope we can all agree (at least if you are not an ethnonationalist) that the current state of South Africa is much much better than it was during apartheid.

Stop the occupation of Palestine, stop the settlement of the West Bank, and stop the apartheid status of Palestinians in Israel. Then either allow Palestine to be an independent country in the UN, responsible for their own security and economy. Or give all Palestinians voting rights in Israel as a one state solution. After that is set and done set up an independent criminal court to judge on all war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in this region, this will of course also include Hamas.