Agreed, especially on the psyops front. It’s no secret that Russia has been manipulating global politics for a long time now, and France is another European country which has seen a rising Russia-friendly neofascist movement in Rassemblement National. They’ve just barely been kept out of power the past few election, but as their numbers keep growing, one must only wonder how much longer that can be the case.

Similar with Germany and AfD. Europe is being worn down from within and no one seems to be inclined to do anything about it.

May constitute a war crime? Israel is a war crime.

“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying”

All these months later and fuckhead still thinks tariffs are a tax on other countries.

I think that might be a misreading, they have no humanity in deed, not in essence. They weren’t born subhuman, they are choosing to be.

I’m not going to give the genociders the benefit of the doubt, at least.

I think we’re having separate conversations, this is about a much needed people’s revolution by the citizens in Iran to course correct for the Western meddling that landed them in their current situation.

Sure, not saying Iran doesn’t have the right to defend itself.

Revolution is sort of a separate consideration, however. Governments often use war as an excuse to continue eroding the basic rights of citizens, and Iran is no stranger to theocratic fascism. Revolutions can begin during wars.

1940’s China paused its revolution in order to face the existential threat of Japan. On the other hand, 1910’s Russia began its revolution during the ongoing conflict of the Great War. The people will reach a breaking point whenever things become too intolerable. It’s different for each example.

Based on your other comment, I’m inclined to agree with the liberals.

Yes I condemn Israel, this isn’t an either/or type of situation. Both countries are shitty.

I expect them to stop harming their own civilians, too.

We don’t need to cheer on an oppressive, totalitarian regime just because they’re at odds with another oppressive, totalitarian regime.

I’m not in the UK, but I recall Iran being in the media a lot in China and the US. Back when Trump assassinated one of their generals during his first term, the recurring abductions and rapes of women and young girls by the morality police that sparked nationwide protests, the arms they are providing for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, and now Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iranian infrastructure and citizens.

Not sure how you got any of that from what I was saying. Feel free to take your black and white worldview somewhere else.

When was Iran tolerable? They’re still as much of a fucked up theocracy with a terrible record on human rights as they’ve been since the revolution.

From my understanding of how they operate, it’s less “Everybody is lying except this one source” and more “Everybody in my bubble appears to be saying these things, so it must be true.”

The strategy utilizes armies of bots and bad actors whose purpose is to infiltrate and influence specific demographics on social media into accepting the Russia-supported narrative. The people who buy the narrative will then in turn parrot it to other members of their social circles to legitimize it. So when the western media outlets and elected officials who took Russia’s money repeat these same ideas, they are more easily accepted as true.

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

All of the Russian state-sponsored misinformation campaigns have probably paid for themselves ten times over with how strongly they’ve succeeded in tipping the scales of geopolitics in Russia’s favor.

The cease fire they did work out which Israel repeatedly violated anyways?

Of course he did, since his boss said it was just a 3-day special military operation to begin with. How was Trump to know there would be more to it than that?

The problem is that when the other half of the country learns that fact, they think “Good.”

Still seems up in the air. Just looking at the current numbers from CBC, the NDP is only slated to take 8 seats, so it seems like BQ is going to be the one with the cards, assuming the tides don’t suddenly shift.

Without going into spoilery details, the film Conclave raised a very interesting question about pope eligibility. Recommend checking it out, not just for the topical relevance but also simply because it’s a good movie.

Hours later, even.