azuth

Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization according to the Lebanese and Iranian governments or the UN.

The have 15 representatives in Lebanon’s parliament.

Hate begets hate, not calm and rational responses.

If this changes your opinion on Gaza-Israel; you are a fucking moron.

If Hamas’ fighters being hateful and commiting war crimes changes your opinion on the conflict; you are a fucking moron.

If you think no hamas fighter is hateful and has committed atrocities; you are a naive moron.

If you are wondering why Israel is wrong and Palestinians in the right despite both sides’ soldiers (and “soldiers”) committing war crimes, it’s because Israel created this situation by occupying Palestine and trying to ethnically cleanse it.

People in the West are way naive and sheltered from the realities of war, in part due to propaganda and how western war efforts have been portrayed as unrealistically “clean” and sanitized.

Because settling occupied territories is against the Geneva convention and a way to ethnically cleanse an area.

They bought their own propaganda that America’s worldwide military presence is not for it’s own benefit but out of a noble desire to protect democracy or whatever.

There is no Europe entity. There’s the EU and NATO with Ukraine not being a member in any of them.

I don’t have any more special connection to Ukrainians than you have because I am European. They are foreigners to me just as they are to you. This goes for most Europeans except maybe for Slavic people.

The rest support Ukraine for the same reasons the US do. Because Russia is a geopolitical rival. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is immoral but it’s not the actual reason for any support of Ukraine. EU countries and the US can live happily with people getting massacred in other countries with Gaza being the most prominent but far from the only example.

So Germany will support Ukraine up to the point its not inconvenient for them. They don’t have any special kinship nor any legal obligation to assist more.

If Russia had performed better in the war Germany probably would feel urged to spend more both in Ukraine to win time to rearm itself. As things stand, Russia cannot threaten Germany and whether it occupies parts of Ukraine is not the end of the world (for Germany).

The US won’t “stop funding the defense” of EU or Taiwan or any other country. That’s the basis of US power. Trump might be compromised, other right wongers might be interested in trading USA’s dominance in the world for remaking of according to their fantasies but they are going to meet pushback from the establishment, including right wingers, including the military. Not going to be alright in any sense but the US military won’t just withdraw.

Why does FUTO have to shoot itself in the foot?

There is as far as I can tell no new actual license just a payment scheme and some shaming functionality. They even offer you the software if you don’t pay. Remember the GPL allows them to require payment to give you the software, they just can’t prohibit someone else giving you the software.

However calling unpaid copies unlicensed is incorrect, they are licensed under the GPL (just like paid ones are).

They should remove references to licensing and display something like “This instance of Immich has been paid/not been paid for.” Call the key PRODUCT key.

Sure some find the “pay or shame” scheme distasteful but it is not against the GPL which allows commercial use.

US companies can fuck off withdraw from the EU.

Also the US is not pro free speech. The first amendment only prevents the government from censoring not private entities such as twitter and other social media. They can in fact and do censor their users so them crying wolf about being censored themselves is ironic. After all they are not even human unlike (well some of) their users.

Removed by mod

As an American, I feel like this is somewhat familiar, and would have negative consequences.

Fucking poetic

Dude you could not teach a kindergartener, you are clueless.

It’s not sides, it’s outcomes.

Is Syria better off after the civil war? It’s still going to split between the same dictator, some islamic militias while many many people died and many more had fled. At least ISIL died off eventually.

I have no issue calling Assad or Putin evil. I just don’t have any delusions about who their opposition was and whether they were evil or not. If they won Syria would have been worse off today. There would probably even be a conflict with Israel, the US would promptly drop them, where Syria would get even more fucked.

But it is for your that this is a game. There are clearly good guys and evil guys and any effort to slightly undermine the evil guys is worth the cost (which is not borne by your or any of the good guys). Ukraine did not make this attack to improve the situation for any Syrian. You know that, you cheer them because they are on your team.

I also want to know how do you think the world should work. After all Syria is not the only dictatorship in the world. Should random countries attack Saudi Arabia? China? Israel? Pakistan? Eritrea? Sudan?

Don’t be obtuse the similarities between the the Syrian Arab spring and the maidan uprising are quite obvious if you actually know what either are.

Ukraine was not a dictatorship unlike Syria. Maidan succeeded and Russia attacked both openly in Crime and with ‘rebels’ in the East. Western support was limited till the next invasion by Russia.

Syria was a dictatorship. After the Arab spring the US started arming islamic militias and attacking Syrian forces. A couple of years later and we had fucking ISIL devastating a big part of Syria and that is when the immigration crisis from Syria peaked, not at the start of the civil war. The US kept supplying the ‘moderate’ islamic groups even though it was known that a lot of their equipment ended up on ISIL.

Do you really believe that any of the foreign interventions in Syria has benefited the Syrians? Do you believe it was meant to?

As opposed to ISIL and ‘moderate’ islamic militias? Or Turkey that occupies areas in the north?

Do you think life would be better for Syrians under them? After all the country was under the same regime for decades but the crisis started after the war.

You don’t care about Syrians, you most likely do not actually give a shit about Ukrainians either.

What exactly was Syria’s role in maidan?

Ukraine is also not the fist country that got invaded so I don’t think it’s somehow the ‘last country you should try that argument with’.

There’s the small issue that Syria is still actually a sovereign country. Though of course most westerners don’t really give a shit about countries in the middle east.

What incident? Israel is not going to pull any shenanigans on France.

De facto truth is that French air force conducted air drops of supplies in uncontestedly Israeli airspace above Gaza.

Israel is not going to attack French military aircraft, it will be political suicide.

I also do not understand your fixation on commercial overflight which is irrelevant here.

That’s like your opinion dude. In actual law national airspace (the only airspace a nation can actually own) extents over territory (whether land or territorial waters).

So in reality recognizing airspace over Gaza as being Israel’s recognizes Gaza as Israeli territory.

The genocide of Palestinians by Israel has been going on way longer than Hamas has existed.

I am no armchair legal scholar, I 've already argued against placing too much value on legality. It is you on the other hand who tries to minimize the severity of Israel’s wrongdoings by arguing pseudo-legalistic semantics.

If the 1948 convention never existed, Israel’s actions would be just as reprehensible.

Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

in whole or in part. Not that you care, just for anybody wondering what the Geneva convention says. Though people should not base their morality on law, even UN law.