"Ceasefires are always good news," says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. But he says his government "will not applaud those who set the world ablaze just because they turn up with a bucket"

That... is a fecking great line.

[Reopens Mastodon after finishing for the day]

Argh! Where did all you crazy kids come from???

And get off my lawn!

@Cyberoutsider

Mock executions are also considered torture.

@Cyberoutsider yeah I saw that and I instantly wanted it to become a memetic response to this shit to help encode it into cultural knowledge
@Cyberoutsider The world should not award Trump any form of "victory" here, either for ending a war or winning a war. This has been disastrous by any measure. Thousands dead. Things much worse than before. US credibility and image badly stained.
@Cyberoutsider I feel like that is what America has done best for 250 years but now there is a Live Internet Video Feed to show one hand of America dropping the match as the other hand reaches for the bucket handle.
@Cyberoutsider waiting for Trump to claim the credit for brokering peace when the hostilities really do cease.
@Cyberoutsider So you're telling me that in other countries, their political leaders *don't* always sound like they are either about to have, or have just had, some sort of brain injury?