“Western” countries don’t have a way to deal with the handful of truly irredeemable criminals. They will not and cannot be members of society ever.

But what do we do with them? Lock them up forever? Kill them? Nobody knows.

Just practice, we’re not Norway, we can’t afford to actually blow them up 😀

And we have known for the last 100 years who will be the one to fuck around - we have prepared for exactly that.

Just a small tidbit: every single bridge in Finland has been specifically rigged for easy placement of explosives to blow it up. And we practice doing it during our mandatory military service.

The smugglers don’t give a fuck, they got paid.

In the Mediterranean they use any shitty dinghy that just about floats and drive paying people to international waters, then the smuggler bails out in a proper boat and leaves the people adrift to be rescued by NGOs or coast guard.

Gandhi did non-violent protests.

He didn’t burn himself alive, nobody would remember him if he did

But suicide by self immolation because of it?

Why? What drives a person to do that?

If you’re willing to die for the cause, why not immolate the Israeli consul for example?

As soon as Chinese “fishing vessels” aren’t armed and won’t turn their transponders off to sneak into territorial waters

You post to a location you control, then post the link to that to other sites.

That way you own and control the content.

There’s a reason why Meta and Twitter hate external links, it takes people out of their feed

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/ 😀

But more seriously: I do frequent shitty FB forums where newbies ask the same question over and over again. I can just quickly copy-paste my longish and sourced response every time. I’m pretty close to just setting up an Alfred/TextExpand macro for the most common ones 😀

(On a proper forum we could just point them to a FAQ thread, but Meta makes is intentionally hard because ✨engagement✨)

AFAIK there’s a ton of their best anti air stuff parked around Moscow just because of this, they can’t risk the hits they’d take if they move it to the front lines

Putin has no endgame.

There is no timeline where he can step down and live peacefully.

His one in a million is to conquer enough of Ukraine and somehow be allowed to keep it - but that’s not happening unless Donald wins the election.

We don’t need to nuke them even, we can just use conventional munitions to fuck up every military installation they have to rubble.

And chuck a few Tomahawks at Kremlin to be sure

This is a perfect way to weaken Russia for a looong time both militarily and economically.

China will be the next one to do something stupid and a weak Russia is a good thing when it happens

Yep, the last time heads rolled in the USSR it was the babushkas who started it 😀

Optics, everything in Russia must look Correct.

Like how they make laws so that their acts are “legal”. They do write them after the fact sometimes, but there is a law they can point to.

Russia is 100% about optics, what things look like is more important than how they actually are.

The optics for a) losing territory and b) bombing your own territory is not good. A good Tsar never loses ground, a good Tsar increases the size of Russia

The greatest thing about this is that Putin can’t just carpet bomb the areas to rubble like Russia does when attacking.

Or the dangly bits between your legs.

They could investigate Nullo culture 😉

Ask Israel to do it 😉

It’s actually called “breaking” the dance isn’t in there officially