Russia is complaining that bombing a Sovereign state is illegal.

Irony just died.

Source: https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2029109/

@randahl
quite clearly, russia doesn't recognize Ukraine as sovereign.

@elCelio
Yeah, but it would be hard to find a definition for "sovereign" that would include Iran but not include Ukraine.

@randahl

@hajovonta @randahl
Iran is a sovereign Empire, thousands of years old, Ukraine is a vassal fief of the sovereign russian tsardom, at least this is what putin told me.
@elCelio
That is not a definition. :)
@randahl
@elCelio You probably know nothing about Ukraine. And you believe the words of a dictator who does not care about the death of people for the sake of his own power.
@elCelio @randahl
Which one can directly see by the use of different articles. Russian has two different articles for sovereign states and dependent regions. For Ukraine they Kremlin use the latter.
@randahl Putin is jealous the turnip is paying more attention to Netanyahu.
@randahl Remember, during WWI the Imperial German Army said "Using Shotguns in war is barbaric!" after launching phosgene gas at the allies in their trenches.
In war "Irony" means "A bomb made of iron".
@randahl Sadly the irony goes both ways
@randahl irony didn't just die, it was resurrected as a vampire, which then walked into the sun, the ashes used as compost for a tree, which was then cut down to be used as firewood to cremate irony.
@randahl Amog many other things, "decency" is dead as well.
@randahl
Anyone know how to translate kettle, teapot and black in Russian?
@randahl The awkward fact is that they’re not wrong. The US destroyed any claims to moral superiority yesterday. Not that they had very much left of the credit that they built with WW2.

@ArtHarg @randahl US claims to "moral superiority" exist only in the mind of propagandized Westerners, and have only ever existed there, never in the real world.

This country was founded on slavery, genocide and white supremacy, and has only reluctantly ever taken any action that wasn't in direct support of those things and/or its own power and ability to project that power at will.

Stop believing there was some golden era of American/Western morality. It's a corrosive and hateful belief.

@randahl

Scary too that the US has given Putin a precedent in bombing nuclear installations.

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike - Wikipedia

@randahl Any comments on a permanent member of the UN Security Council invading a country after it promised to give that other country sovereignty in exchange for its nukes?
@randahl Israel is complaining that bombing hospitals is a war crime. (What it certainly is.)
@ujay68 @randahl there is a difference if you use your hospitals to stockpile medical supplies or weapons and I don't think a burned pile of Iranian made rockets count as medical supplies...

@Walter8100000
Funny how the colonisers always find secret command centres under hospitals and refugee camps, but never find evidence after bombing them…

You’d be forgiven for thinking it was all lies in service of genocide.

No my friend, when you normalise bombing hospitals you don’t get to whinge about the leopards having a nibble at your own face.

@ujay68 @randahl

@Mogleg @ujay68 @randahl I agree that bombing hospitals and especially in the situation in Gaza is despicable.
But if they drop 1 bomb on a concrete building and the whole block disappears from the face of the earth that building wasn't a hospital.

@Walter8100000

Probably smart to let the world know that you’ve unilaterally decided to redefine what constitutes a hospital!

How many bombs it takes to murder the infants in the maternity ward is now the yardstick for whether something is a hospital or not?

You don’t bombs hospitals. End of story. When you decided that hospitals were fair game you also decided that hospitals everywhere was fair game. This bell you can’t un ring. All in service of a genocidal colony.

@ujay68 @randahl

@Mogleg @ujay68 @randahl I don't approve the bombing of hospitals. I hate the whole Israel-Palistina situation and the colonists are despicable. I hate religious violence, its idiotic.

But you said there was no proof that the hospitals were used as storage location for weapons. The force of the explosion is proof there was something more than a hospital.

@Walter8100000
Do you think the dropping of a huge bomb on the building might play a part in the ensuing explosion?

Or are you suggesting that we indiscriminately bomb hospitals and judge their hospital-ness based on how big the explosion is?

This is not religious violence. This is extermination by a colonial power. Lebensraum for the herrenvolk.

@ujay68 @randahl

@Mogleg @ujay68 @randahl No, you let organisations as Mossad gather information. If they can pinpoint an Iranian nuclear scientist or military leader I'm sure they can track Iranian missiles in Gaza.

And all of this is religious violence. Why do you think the Jews, Christians and Muslims want Jeruzalem? I'll give you a hint: its not because of the nice weather...

@Walter8100000
Or, you know, you dismantle the apartheid colony and have the Europeans return home and leave the indigenous people be.

It’s not rocket surgery 😊

@ujay68 @randahl

@Mogleg @ujay68 @randahl If I would say something like that here in Europe I could be arrested for being a racist 😳

@Walter8100000
I don’t think anyone can rightly criticise anyone for wanting to end apartheid but I notice you’re on dot social which tends toward being pro genocide so I understand your reluctance 😊

I’ll say it for you instead: let’s end the settler colonial apartheid project currently committing genocide in west Asia 😊👍

@ujay68 @randahl

@Mogleg that post was not helpful.

Please do not mischaracterise users of mastodon.social this way.

It is certainly not a pro genocide server, and Walter is not pro genocide.

@Walter8100000 @ujay68

@randahl
I think the several users who’ve had their posts censored for being even mildly critical of the apartheid entity would disagree but I will leave it at that.

There was no implied genocidal intent on Walter’s behalf. They expressed concern about the political climate under which they exist and I took it upon myself to say what they appeared to feel they could not say out of fear of reprisals.

All the best :)
@Walter8100000 @ujay68

@ujay68 @randahl Apparently Alanis Morissette and her management are looking into cloning technology because there is just too high a demand for her to perform her song “Ironic” all around the world right now. 🤪

@randahl

Netanyahu forgot to declare Iran as always having belonged to Greater Israel, and his mission is just to bring freedom to well hidden Jewish residents.

Putin style.

Iranian Parliament religious minority reserved seats - Wikipedia

@randahl
I think, they again feel treated unfairly.
Why does #USA get away with this (maybe), while #Russia definitely struggles ...?
@randahl For Russia, international law is something to be used and abused, not something to be followed.
@masek @randahl Oh, they’re in that club too!
@randahl I do find it a bit odd that US is leading a coalition to aid Ukraine fight the invader, but on the other hand is leading the effort to beat a sovereign nation into submission. As the EU, NATO pitches in on defense of sovereignty for one and claps along in the demolition of another sovereignty.
It feels as it has nothing to do with respect of freedom, democracy or respect of sovereignty and everything to do with the political alignment and perhaps religion of the invaded country.
@dacig it is pure tribalism. Team Jesus VS team Muhammed.
@randahl @dacig and a part in me fears that's really one of the drivers, here.
@randahl @dacig Most members of 'Team Jesus' would be first in the mob trying to crucify the preaching carpenter from Nazareth if they actually met him.

@randahl @dacig It's pure power.
Money.
Influence.

Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, US allies, are not "Team Jesus".

Religion is at best an excuse, used no more than non-white skin.

@dacig @randahl Quite the god to cause so much strife among his worshipers, no? And these are just the ones that are left after all the centuries of slaughter. All kinds of their brethren they made utterly extinct.
@randahl
It's been dead for a while now. They are having a fucking disco on its grave.
@randahl As I said elsewhere, this is clearly baiting; either the world has to admit the US & Israel is doing exactly what Russia is being condemned for, or they get to say "Well, then our activities in Ukraine is OK too, what are y'all bitching about"...

@randahl irony done been dead with #Magats. Bred out. They ain’t got no irony nor hypocrisy function on board.

Not installed in their operating system; the lack is a feature not a bug. Allows them to barrel ahead while we spend time reacting, gobsmacked.

I wonder if brain imaging would reveal specifically what’s missing…is there a neighborhood in the brain responsible for being entirely soulless?.

@randahl Russia has awareness level of a retarded amoeba...
@randahl
They are not wrong...

@midgephoto not wrong but also don't care about this standard at all when it comes to their own actions

@randahl

@randahl true, but that does not defend the unprovoked actions of the US and Israel.
@randahl all diplomacy is built on hypocrisy

@randahl Is Putin one of those people sorry that they put El Disgusto in the White House ?

Now I know I have a heart, it's breaking

#Treason #Impeach

@randahl

When the fox complains that the lighting in the henhouse is too bright and the poor chickens can't sleep.