Of course which is why the parliamentarian decided that the president can't 'leave NATO' (a thing that was definitely going to happen).

the guy wasn't confessing he was just dabbing at that point

US drones, like everything else, are good for counter-insurgency. It's like the Bayraktars. They aren't bad at what they do. They do a lot of damage to the PKK, the insurgencies in Ethiopia and, as it turns out, the Armenian Armed Forces. Iran's Shaheds are just the reverse, they are tools for asymmetrical warfare. So you see that sort of weapon in the Ukraine War on both sides, and with Yemen's sanctions enforcement operation.

The problem as always is paying premium after buying the hype of a perfect, silver bullety wonder weapon.

The question I have is wether this ruling can be used against propaganda in the West. Given that Germany and the US in particular are using the full power of the State to ruin the lives of people who criticize Israel, I assume the fact that the ICJ had to order Israel to stop inciting a genocide and to actually start preventing one is a good cudgel against the media.

It's not like a court would ever prevent the actual genocidal war from happening. If courts could that do we wouldn't have an an alliance that goes from the levant all the way to Yemen to fight off US occupation and the israeli occupation forces.

you're behind the times. netanyahu just keeps tweeting about how there will be no palestinian state whatsoever in the west bank. he should start using the word lebensraum by the end of the week.

I don't support either side in this

'look on one hand genocide is happening. on the other a container ship was impounded. i can't make a choice here.'

From what I understand, China is rather decentralized. The central government sets up policy demands, and the local governments have ample freedom to fulfill them. If Beijing says 'we want you to implement X amount of solar panels in farms and buildings', the governments can do whatever. Tax incentives, subsidies, privatization, nationalization, and so on. And then the governments have to fund most of it themselves. Local governments of China aren't above calling bourgeois or criminal elements and doing a quid pro quo because the central government doesn't fully fund everything either.

Ecuador's situation, and I guess Mexico's too, is so unthinkable to me. The last time the government had cause to clamp down on excessive crime around these parts was in the years preceding the Rio Olympics / World Cup. The government literally called up the big criminal orgs and told them to just move to the next towns over for a bit, or to hold back from faction warfare while police were stationed everywhere. The one group that rebelled against the arrangement got their shit kicked in by the armed forces without delay.

Even then they didn't cross the rubicon like in Ecuador. Burn a bus, sure. Rush around with big motorcades in broad daylight, ok. Attack police? Of course. But in Ecuador the groups thought they could do a coup.

to paraphrase the good vlad ilyich

'wow shit's going down, very quickly too'

ask him if firefighters are in the 1%

continue on to talk about teachers, but before letting him say that 'some teachers are really shitty at their job' ask them if he truly believes there are no driven teachers being rewarded with the shittiest financial means the country can get away with

continue opening the conversation with other occupations, like nurses and construction workers. and ask him, how many nurses it took for a driven and passionate hedge fund manager to make his first billion

don't even bring up concepts like class war or anything, just talk about the material reality and embody what you want to say rather than explaining it

If China sends 23300 balloons at the US, the balance of payments will finally collapse from all the trillion dollar missiles they'll need to shoot them down.

And yet you terminally online leftists won't give credit where it's due. Trump promised to make Europe pay for NATO. Biden actually did it.