Because our countries aren’t sovereign. Capitalism is a system where capitalists dictate politics. But capitalists aren’t loyal to their home countries, they’re loyal to their the capitalist class. So they have no incentive to dictate politics in the benefit of the countries they rule. The USA as an institution is their main instrument and army. So of course they’ll protect the USA.

If you doubt me, you can try to verify it. Pick a small handful of capitalists in a EU country, and check where their money is. If they own more stocks in USA companies than they do EU companies, then assuredly they’ll prioritise the USA’s economy over the EUs economies.

with regularity

Zero times.

Would London have fewer missiles it would need to defend against if the UK didn’t help bomb Iran? 🤔

Nobody would criticise Ukraine for having ceasefire deal with Israel. It would imply they are enemies, for one.

Probably someone tipped them off that the kids are writing “IOF”

Reads like theatre to me.

Who cares about the other guy? Every USA politics guy is the same guy. This lady included. People seeing through the pink washing is a mild victory and worth mild celebration.

Hell I’d imagine the war would be over pretty darn fast if the ukranians wanted it. White flags, surrender, get captured to protect themselves if their government is making them fight by intimidation.

Your comment is pretty reasonable if you do a quick fact check with the resources that Google or DDG gives you. But you should be careful to separate “Ukraine” with the specific people within Ukraine who live in the Donbas. Some quick factors to consider with your polling article. And I don’t blame you for not knowing to pay attention to this if you haven’t followed this conflict closely.

The poll is from before the civil war. The people in the Donbas were happy with their autonomy (They had some autonomy from the rest of Ukraine) and national status in 2014 and prior, because the sources of grievances weren’t yet fully established. After this they had to endure shelling and terror attacks from openly Nazi militias with de facto support from the new government. That changes your mind.

In your link, you can see that among the ethnic Russians (the majority of those living in the Donbass), and those in the east, support for joining the Russian Federation, and other types of pro-Russia sentiments are higher. Again, this was before the coup and suppression. 31% wishing to merge with another country with no incentive is in my opinion very significant. Can you imagine how this poll would look in your country asked about your neighbour?

But even after years of shelling, the people of the Donbass didn’t want to become Russian citizens, they wanted their own state, and that’s what the breakaway republics fought for.

Now after even more years of fighting, it’s obvious that isn’t an option, and so the question they have to weigh is if they want to be governed by Ukraine or Russia. Ukraine has stood by, and even aided the worst people terrorising them. Ukraine has spread extremely strong anti-Russian (not the state, but the ethnicity and language and culture and traditions and history) rhetoric and laws, and anti-Soviet rhetoric and laws. Meanwhile Russia has, from the view of many everyday people currently living in the occupied territories, treated them fairly, protected them and died for them. Russia listened to them diplomatically when they accused the Ukrainian government of genocide, and promised to recognise the breakaway republics as sovereign nations. The fact that this is in Russia’s benefit, or if they made promises they knew they wouldn’t have to keep isn’t that important.

Hell I’d imagine the war would be over pretty darn fast if the ukranians wanted it. White flags, surrender, get captured to protect themselves if their government is making them fight by intimidation.

All of this to say, the soldiers fighting aren’t from the cities they’re fighting over.

This seems extremely desperate. ISIS is stretched super thin, how are they supposed to have capacity to help Israel?

whose own wife was killed by ISIS

This might be a contributing factor. Iran is the primary actor combatting ISIS.

Trump has started a war of choice against a country that’s willing to use terror as a weapon

You bombed a school on the first day because a statistically higher number of their dads were in the military. You’ve done nothing but terrorism towards them for decades.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

They don’t give a shit about Palestinians. They only support Hamas.

Did you confuse some names? Iran and Hamas aren’t allies. Iran supports Palestine and Palestinian resistance, but they’ve always been hostile with Hamas and were on opposite sides in Syria last year. A common criticism of Iran is that their support for Palestine is ineffective or a farse precisely because they try to give it to everyone else before Hamas.

Pigs aren’t sacred animals. You’re allowed to mention them. You aren’t supposed to eat them, but that rule is less strict than for example, you shouldn’t throw away good food because you fancy something else. The reason we hear so much about pork being forbidden in the west is because among cultural muslims, not eating pork is a very easy rule to follow while being somewhat visible.

Doesn’t matter, every game is 18+. Decades of data gives them confidence kids will buy their 18+ game at the same rate.

in fact I advocated hard against it

In a way that makes a difference?

They list the value in USD. You can use the money to pay your Adobe Subscription. Would you be taking the same stance if I hacked Steam to give myself Steam-wallet money? Would I be committing fraud or merely griefing a fun virtual casino-themed game for fun?

They can’t really. A similar crime would only hurt civilian populations, and it would have to be the populations of a closer country since they can’t hit the USA.

> Irish Star

* Looks inside *

Reach USA, 14 Wall Street, 20th Floor, New York, 10005

The headline and article seem to be at odds. Literally all they have to do to avoid being attacked is not get involved. Don’t let the USA use your assets. Don’t join in on attacking.

If you can convince the EU to condemn USAs attack and like a little bit more you can probably even get access to shipping through the strait again.