International Politics

[steviewevie]

3 hours ago, Neil said:

and again the kippers will say that's why it was right to brexit.

well looks like Germany having it's own kippery moment, along with lots of other EU countries.

 

[steviewevie]

some high risk brinkmanship going on between NATO and Russia.

[charlierc]

I guess there's a question of how far is Putin bending before breaking. We've burned through multiple red lines by this point.

 

This Wikipedia page was a curio I found when lurking on Reddit the other day. It's a textbook from the late 90s published in Russia by a neo-fascist academic following a so called "neo-Eurasian" approach, which seems to have in retrospect been a bedrock for their foreign policy to a fairly unsettling degree.

[steviewevie]

Looks likes Putin's threats worked...for now...

[steviewevie]

13 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Looks likes Putin's threats worked...for now...

...although apparently the missile thing may well have been agreed but they won't ever publicly announce it.

 

[charlierc]

Politico are saying another meeting will be held on whether to give Ukraine permission for those missiles at the UN General Assembly, which takes place in a week and a half. So, for now, more waiting. And presumably more time for Putin & his mob to make threats.

[steviewevie]

15 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Politico are saying another meeting will be held on whether to give Ukraine permission for those missiles at the UN General Assembly, which takes place in a week and a half. So, for now, more waiting. And presumably more time for Putin & his mob to make threats.

More time for them to prepare for missile strikes.

They're running out of time if Trump gets in.

[steviewevie]

 

[Neil]

On 9/13/2024 at 6:36 AM, steviewevie said:

some high risk brinkmanship going on between NATO and Russia.

they're risking no one but the plebs like us!

[charlierc]

11 hours ago, steviewevie said:

 

Presumably Trump and Netanyahu will not be answering questions about how their push to unravel the 2015 Iran deal brokered by Obama and the EU lead to such a potential situation.

[steviewevie]

Israel taking out Hezbollah with exploding pagers is something else.

[doogie]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

Israel taking out Hezbollah with exploding pagers is something else.

 

If the Israelis are responsible for that, they are f**king legends 😆

[steviewevie]

42 minutes ago, doogie said:

 

If the Israelis are responsible for that, they are f**king legends 😆

have to see what repercussions are. Amazing though.

[steviewevie]

If Israel can do this super clever sh*t and also assassinate various leaders in Iran/Lebanon etc then why do they need to bomb the f**k out of Gaza if it isn't some sort of collective punishment (or genocide)?

[doogie]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

If Israel can do this super clever sh*t and also assassinate various leaders in Iran/Lebanon etc then why do they need to bomb the f**k out of Gaza if it isn't some sort of collective punishment (or genocide)?

 

In a word, tunnels.

 

They can't destroy Hamas's terrorist capabilities without destroying the tunnels, and they can't do that without significant 'collateral damage' as they've been intentionally built under peoples' homes and other civilian infrastructure.

 

The hostage situation makes things even harder.

 

And clearly their intelligence is far from perfect as they didn't see the October 7th attacks coming when they really should have.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by doogie