RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115846940914966096
As @AnarchoNinaWrites said earlier, if you fight back against the US, you win - throughout history the US has spent unfathomable amounts of money on military interventions against laughably inferior opponents, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, & still utterly failed.
It's well past time to stop tickling the US self-image of being the world's "most powerful nation".
It's time to tell the bully to go fuck himself.
RE: https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/115844250065112436
When I said this in a conversation a few days ago, everybody acted like I was crazy - but *of course* an organisation made for mutual defense can't survive if one of the members attacks another.
- and yes, US has the biggest single military, but that in no way means they have anywhere near the forces required to boss the entire rest of the world around.
So, you know, we can just kick them out of NATO, which hopefully is the talk behind the veil.
@henriksundstrom NATO is utterly useless. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine I was living in Zagreb and a drone from Ukraine crashed in Zagreb, 100 metres away from a student dormitory (by sheer luck nobody was killed) after flying unobserved through NATO airspace (Romania, Hungary, Croatia) for 50 minutes.
But, is Norway the only European country with a somewhat leftist government?
@henriksundstrom How would it go with attacking a fellow NATO member? Article 5 is invoked, every NATO member is considered attacked by the US, including the US, every NATO member has to defend Norway, Denmark, whomever from the US, the US has to defend Norway/Denmark/whomever from the US?
Helt seriรธst, fuck DR & fuck fucking Clement ๐คฌ
Pressen i dag har absolut ingen idรฉ om hvad "Den 4. Statsmagt" betyder eller hvad deres job er.
I shit you not: National Venezuela / intpol news coverage in Denmark today is basically wall-to-wall quoting Trump & the MAGA regime.
It's reached the point where I'm pretty sure that if you're the parent of a journalist & also have a moral compass, you lie to your friends that they're a drug dealer, just to save face.
You know the traditional curses:
"May you live in interesting times."
"May the state be aware of you."
We used to have a similar one in my country of origin:
"May the US introduce democracy to you."
Edit: Removed mention of the people they are attributed to because that might come across as racist.
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115833246133934434
No. There's no ambiguity in the text & yet this headline.
It's like going "Did a group of dudes breaking into the Louvre & making off with various works of art act legally?", which no news outlet would ever do, because it would be both stupid & a dereliction of journalistic duty to state fact clearly so people can know what the fuck is going on.
The role of the press getting us into this mess cannot be overstated.
"This is a moment for resistance and for action. It is clear that the U.S. sees the slaughter of even the appearance of international law under imperialism in its imperialist-Zionist genocide in Gaza as an open door to expand its aggression everywhere in the world, without even an attempt to manufacture other than the thinnest pretext and while openly declaring their thirst for the resources of the people of the world."
Presented for discussion -- I don't agree with all aspects of this framing.