Benkei

Why is his X in Cyrillic script?

Errr... sabotage is only "permitted" in war. There's no "let's do a little so it isn't war". Sabotage means war otherwise they are crimes against huma...

Those are the ones reported, but it's much more. For instance: https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/hybrid-threats-russias-shadow-war-esc...

We are on a war footing already!

Your best post so far. It made me laugh. :rofl: Maybe you should stick to more concise posts?

There's historic precedent without it leading to disaster. So what disaster are you thinking of?

Your first two sentences make complete sense to me but your answer to your own question doesn't. I don't buy for a minute Trump has a geopolitical age...

I've advocated before that after NATO/USA fucked up by thinking Putin was bluffing before the start of the war they should've put boots on the ground ...

I'm not. I think it's easy to speak support and much harder to actually do it and get consistent support for it over a longer time period (which we'll...

@"ssu" Compliment for the Fins and a blueprint for other EU countries in the Dutch newspaper NRC: (machine translated)

Not really. Attacking and holding land takes a lot more manpower than defending it. But as I said, the problem isn't manpower or material, it's the ab...

Trump only understands force or sucking his dick. Since sucking his dick means letting go of democratic principles that's a no go. Europe needs to do ...

Cringe comedy.

Yes, it's a form of rationality in that we can follow and predict his reasoning. But he and his cronies will profit so this doesn't matter. Of course,...

I think yes, prima facie it seems to be a fair analysis that it could be good for the US and Ukraine but it really depends on the deal. If it's fair a...

One of the striking features to me of Trumpian politics is that it is mostly vindictive. Coupled with being badly informed or misinformed, we get what...

habitualising yourself wisely.

tell me how. I have huge issues with "spheres of influence" with a lot attention towards international geopolitics and 0 control and at the same time ...

I agree. Which is precisely why I proposed the prohibition on using personal data as a free resource to allow influence on an industrial scale. Your p...

It was reported today (I didn't verify) Trump blamed Ukraine for the war. That's really taking victim blaming to new heights...

I agree. I was just mentioning it so everybody realises that we have a real life example that works. So it's not just theoretical but a real option.

It's amazing such news isn't picked up more broadly. I hadn't heard about those sabotage attempts.

Governments are democratically elected and have all sorts of checks and balances and information access rights for civilians. The idea European govern...

Follow the money. Why are several companies multi-million dollars worth based on the premisse of utilising personal data to disseminate information an...

@"ssu" All that talk about the EU in the Trump thread should be here. So I called Trump's victory 3 years ago here and worried about the implications ...

There's already something called Special Drawing Rights and there's definitive benefits to using a basket of currencies instead of USD.

Yes, it was totally rational to exterminate Jews, gays, Roma and the disabled because that they were all rats wasn't misinformation or false belief. O...

Much sooner and for different reasons than I expected but where 6 years ago I was still against a centralised army for the EU, because it would create...

There's no definition of aggression where forcefully taking another country's land isn't aggression. There's no justification for it, only explanation...

Aggression has just been rewarded. I don't see in what world that's a good thing. That the USA/NATO fucked up in the lead up to the Ukraine war (twice...

As usual a dumb post. Go away, mate. Edit: to clarify, rhetorical questions are dumb.

Fixed it for you. This was rather obvious. And we already have the first post defending it. Excellent. I give the UN another 10 years at most after wh...

Lmao. Pity? You've demonstrated to be generally incapable of the emotion so obviously I wasn't expecting it.

Nice projection. I have not taken you seriously since your idiotic replies about my purported "holiness", which was you that started to make it person...

Right after he made it personal twice. So yes, another dimwit. You're in dumb company as usual.

Stop making it personal dimwit.

Grow a conscious instead of rationalising crimes all the time.

Hegseth just threw Ukraine under the bus. Who needs enemies when there's the USA?

Good to see all these Jews in support of deportation. Well done for having learned fuck all from this thread, history or having a smidgen of common de...

Let's do what the Israeli have been trying to do for decades...

your post amounts to justifying making conditions terrible enough for people to want to leave and then ask "why is it bad that they want to leave?" I'...

Everything Trump says with respect to international relations is just the opening bid in a negotiation. He anchors it at something ridiculous and then...

What? I assume you're referring to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while they had charters, they were privately owned and only became "government run" aft...

It's a bit "pick your poison" where you want to send your data though. China or the US. It both sucks in that respect. We really need an EU alternativ...

@"Pierre-Normand" What are you making of DeepSeek? It seems pretty good. Are the claims about energy usage and computing power etc. true? Probably all...

If you still need to listen to what the Afd stands for you maybe need to stop taking your meds.

Giving Weidel a platform in the first place.

Of course he's a Nazi. Just look at who he supports in the EU. https://youtu.be/NjWl_RNDMSA?si=DgDuAl14WOuubUhh

Of course there is. Doing nothing means it perpetuates injustice, because there is already discrimination. It's been funny seeing people argue doing n...

I just want to point out that @"Streetlight" was prescient in this thread and everybody should watch A thousand cuts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...