Israel is doing their damnedest to start a war with Iran, and there’s a non-zero chance that a sufficiently intense war between Israel and Iran will draw the US in for multiple reasons.

Hey, subbed to the former! Feel free to crosspost those to !historyporn@lemmy.world with a mention of your sub if you like.

I use my lemm.ee alt now. On Kbin it used to work if you self-upvoted, but Kbin doesn’t look like it’s coming back. I presume Mbin would work the same way, though.

Switzerland neutrally carrying water for fascism as per usual. It would be terrible if they burned bridges with Russian and Chinese oligarchs.

Oh, well, Israel couldn’t have THAT, of course

Jesus H. Christ.

Which are used to target unpopular fringe groups not regional majorities.

Oh, okay, they’re too popular to do anything about. Phew. For a moment there I thought there might have been a consistent opposition to fascism.

A good omen for future operations, one hopes.

Instability is founded on the bones of children as well. There’s no ‘clean hands’ option.

The issue is that backing Israel at this point is a contribution to instability.

No, dual-use facilities are generally regarded as legitimate targets so long as civilian workers are not explicitly targeted in the way one might target enemy personnel.

Well, that’ll be good evidence for putting them on Interpol’s red notices.

Giving your own posts an upvote when you’re at 0 subscribers works wonders. I remember posting in the original version of RoughRomanMemes for literal months without significant interaction until I did that. Something about the ‘active’ feed I guess.

Once the community is grown you don’t need to do that anymore.

Tell him staring is rude.

According to the ISW, the loss of Vuhledar will not fundamentally alter offensive operations because it is “not a particularly crucial logistics node”. Russian forces already controlled surrounding access roads, the institute said. They would now have to “manoeuvre” across open terrain in order to link up with units farther north.

All of this argues not only for Israeli strikes—which will surely come—but for vigorous American action as well.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Definitely the action of a completely responsible state in the international community, no question /s

This is indisputably a negative thing, but ISW suggests that it’s not particularly game-changing.

ISW previously assessed that Russia’s seizure of Vuhledar is unlikely to fundamentally alter the course of offensive operations in western Donetsk Oblast, largely because Vuhledar is not a particularly crucial logistics node and because Russian forces have controlled most of the main roads running into Vuhledar prior to October 1, meaning that Russian forces have already had the ability to interdict Ukrainian logistics in this part of the front to some extent.[12] Vuhledar is also about 30 kilometers south of Russia’s current main effort in the Pokrovsk direction, so Russian forces would need to maneuver across 30 kilometers of open terrain to meaningfully support offensive operations southeast of Pokrovsk. Vuhledar is also located 23 kilometers south of the H-15 highway that stretches between Donetsk City and the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border area, but Russian forces would need to advance across an open field area during the upcoming muddy season to reach the highway. Advisor to the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Head Igor Kimakovsky notably assessed before the Russian seizure of Vuhledar that the dirt road that Ukrainian forces could have used to withdraw from Vuhledar would soon become unusable due to mud, and it is likely that Russian forces will face similar problems if they soon resume mechanized assaults in the area.[13]

Astarion is a vampire, one supposes he had a little snack

Good on Spain. I hope more follow suit.

With Israel’s regime? Unlikely.

Sanders speaking truth as usual.