This strike is extremely confusing. It’s a space radar thats only other use case is as an early-warning radar for ICBMs (that is, in the event of nuclear war).

Why is Ukraine going after Russia’s nuclear triad? What the fuck is going on?

Today, German lawmakers are rewriting bylaws and pushing for constitutional amendments to ensure courts and state parliaments can provide checks against a future, more powerful AfD. Some have even launched a campaign to ban the AfD altogether.

You see, democracy is when…

Syrskyi was born in 1965 in Vladimir Oblast, Russian SFSR, then in the Soviet Union. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Military Command School, the Soviet Union’s leading higher military educational institution in 1986 and served in the Soviet Artillery Corps.

Syrsky moved to Ukraine in the 1980s. He initially served in a self-propelled artillery unit equipped with the 152 mm 2S5 Giatsint-S and 203 mm 2S7 Pion self propelled howitzers, including in units earmarked to fire nuclear shells. He later served in Rocket Artillery units fielding the BM-27 Uragan MBRL. He served in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Czech Republic until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Born in what was then Soviet Russia, Syrskyi graduated from a military academy in Moscow and speaks Ukrainian with a heavy Russian accent.

An ethnic Russian, born East of Moscow, who speaks Ukrainian with a heavy Russian accent, and who’s entire military education was centered around Soviet doctrine, is the new commander in chief of the AFU?

Bolsonaro’s former international affairs adviser Filipe Martins was one of four other people arrested, the sources said. A lawyer for Martins said he was awaiting access to the warrant and supporting evidence before commenting.

Relevant details about Martins from Brasilwire:

After working at the TSE electoral court until the 2014 election, Filipe Martins became an “economic advisor” to the US embassy in Brasilia.

Martins, who is credited with introducing Jair Bolsonaro to Steve Bannon, worked at the embassy for the duration of the coup period between December 2014 following the election and July 2016, when Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment was all but sealed.

According to Martin’s LinkedIn profile, he was responsible for research about the political conjuncture and economy in Brazil, in particular bilateral relations with the US, and media monitoring during that coup period.

[Martins has] been an influence on the foreign policy of the Bolsonaro government, alongside the President’s son, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, who was accused by a former ally of handing a dossier of leftists and anti-fascists to the US embassy in Brasilia.

In July 2019 Martins met with the head of the FBI in Brazil, David Brassanini, who was accompanied by William Popp, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy. Brassanini is the main overseer of the FBI’s expansion in Brazil since Bolsonaro (and Sérgio Moro) took office, as documented here.

You mean it was all BS? No way!

Would you have flattened Ireland in response to the IRA’s bombings? If not, why condone flattening Gaza?

The hospital ship just transited Bab el-Mandeb and is en route to Gaza

Ireland once again showing they’re one of the only humane countries in the EU

If Sweden had found Russia at fault, you’d think they would be shouting it from the rooftops.

This is just strictly not true, otherwise Canada’s Northwest Passage would be considered EEZ and not part of internal waters. EEZ is drawn from the extant point outside of the baseline.

Coup doing coup things

I always find it silly how Westerners have no grasp of reunification in a non-military manner.

In the same way say, France and Germany might have a unified economy or Canada and the US might have a unified culture, it’s entirely possible to maintain legislative and/or budgetary independence under a unified front. In fact, that’s already more-or-less true of China’s governments: the proportion of government spending at the federal level is only 15% of all government spending. This includes spending for defence, science & technology, public security, public services, education, and diplomacy.

EJIL:Talk! is one of the leading international law blogs and provides some in-depth analysis of the ICJ’s recent ruling on Ukraine v. Russian Federation.

In Ukraine v. Russia the claim is that Russia falsely asserted that Ukraine committed genocide against Russians or Russian-speakers in Ukraine, and on that basis then proceeded to invade Ukraine.

In its judgment, the Court distinguishes between two different aspects of Ukraine’s case. The first is whether Ukraine can make a ‘reverse compliance’ claim by seeking a declaration that it did not commit genocide in Eastern Ukraine. The second is whether Russia violated the Convention by making the false allegation of genocide against Ukraine, and then by using force against it.

The Court dismissed all of Russia’s more procedural objections, and did so near-unanimously. But on the subject-matter jurisdiction issue Ukraine lost, and as I said it lost badly. By 12 votes to 4 (Judges Donahue, Sebutinde, Robinson and Charlesworth dissenting), the Court UPHELD Russia’s preliminary objection that false allegations of genocide, and uses of force based on them, fall outside the scope of the Genocide Convention.

Now, on the merits, the Court will have to decide solely whether Ukraine is responsible for violating the Genocide Convention. But no issue of Russia’s responsibility will arise, except very implicitly.

Beijing has never cared much about the result of this Taiwanese election because the majority of Taiwanese support improving relations with China (see: votes for KMT, TPP). This entire claim of “tense cross-Strait relations” is a manufactured concern so Biden can knock a win.

The most significant recent tension in cross-Strait relations has been the declaration of the Taiwan Strait as international waters (induced largely by FONOPS declaring it as such) and the ending of some of Taiwan’s special economic statuses for trade with China (induced largely by increased arms trade with foreign powers). Everything else is just posturing to save face on both sides.

Good. Why are MY tax dollars being used to subsidize everyone else’s parking?

“Electoral interference” is illegal, but “shaping and changing the PRC” is just business.

As far as Israeli news outlets go, Haaretz has pretty good coverage. Better than mainstream US media outlets lol

haha war in the middle east again