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by rainworld 6d ago
> the same thing If only the Taliban had received half a trillion of military and financial support. If only China had shipped them thousands of FPV drones per day and given them access to low-latency satcom and a trillion-dollar ISR eco
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by rainworld 9d ago
As things stand, without fresh funds, Ukraine can keep the war going for about another year. I wouldn’t expect Zelensky to concede this round one day too soon.
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by rainworld 29d ago
The problematic thing here is that there remains an abundance of cowardly and delusional elites in positions of influence and power. 4.5 years in. Willing to sell out their countrymen for a mirage of normalcy that will not come. Not to the
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by rainworld 1mo ago
http://archive.today/2026.08.13-052756/https://wiki.lowtechl...
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by rainworld 2mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celebration_parallax
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by rainworld 2mo ago
“This is how you "negotiate" with Turks: you kill dozens of them, then don’t apologize.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes
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by rainworld 2mo ago
> tempted to respond in kind Has nothing to do with it. > It's basic human nature. No it’s the nature of a proxy war, the nature of a gambler with no post-war future, the nature of hubristic technologists with software for brains
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by rainworld 2mo ago
This year, so far and among other things, we’ve had an illegal war against Iran, an illegal blockade against Cuba, hundreds of civilians murdered in the Caribbean, the murder of a head of state, the abduction of another. As well as the
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by rainworld 2mo ago
But they dutifully support those who do, materially and diplomatically. Carrying significant political cost, internally as well as externally.
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by rainworld 3mo ago
More from Ukrainian public broadcasting: https://suspilne.media/kropyvnytskiy/1340118-smerti-vid-pnev...
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by rainworld 3mo ago
This is about forcibly drafted men (particularly those with additional issues like addiction) who get sent on assaults with low rates of success and high chances of death (or serve in similarly dangerous roles). Very different from the glam
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by rainworld 3mo ago
Polemical original title distracts from the content. Full article. Quoting the author: Ukrainian liberal media writes about it, but only in Ukrainian. Not for western consumption.
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Deadly abuse of mobilized men in Ukraine(eventsinukraine.substack.com)
6 points by rainworld 3mo ago|4 comments
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by rainworld 3mo ago
Self-fulfilling prophecies need prophets.
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by rainworld 3mo ago
> Any reasonable leadership would have cut their losses yet here we are. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKxeuY7bMAEwZ30.png Indeed.
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by rainworld 3mo ago
> The country that’s getting 55% of its state budget from the EU isn’t a proxy. Not to mention the munitions, the weapons, the training, and above all the access to the US’ trillion dollar ISR and satcom network. Spade? That’s a shovel d
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by rainworld 3mo ago
It’s conceivable that Russia could force the West to back out of the proxy war. But then they’d get proliferation in Europe, Taiwan, South Korea, and other places. And Usrael would very likely use nukes against Iranian missile cities. (Conv
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by rainworld 4mo ago
> the standard "modern" war For the US and friends is terrorizing the enemy, his forces, his civilian population into giving up. Is feeding a civil war until he crumbles. > bomb the living shit out of anything armoured That’
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by rainworld 4mo ago
The classic HN trope of a non-rebuttal presented as rebuttal. And you conveniently left out the link in the sentence: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/31/congress/ma... It’s true, “MAGA
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by rainworld 4mo ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/17/massie-aipac-record... It literally was. And wait till you find out you find out who Epstein et al. were working for.
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by rainworld 4mo ago
You, as many do, forgot to mention the root cause: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-iran-war-request-israel... > The meek recent Senate protest means nothing. If the elites didn't want the war, the House an
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by rainworld 5mo ago
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-repatriates-bodies-of-1-... 1000 Ukrainians for 38 Russians. Such exchanges with similarly lopsided ratios happen every couple weeks.
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by rainworld 6mo ago
The notion that the bombings constituted an informed political decision intended to forestall an otherwise unavoidable invasion, and that Japan wasn’t ready to surrender is a complete retcon.[0] But a great example of how well Americans con
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by rainworld 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Distribution_of... It’s just the latest implementation of a winning formula.
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by rainworld 6mo ago
Did that language imping on the interests of America’s ruling elites, its security apparatus, or the interests of a certain entity in the eastern Mediterranean? No? Then we’re talking about entirely different things.
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by rainworld 6mo ago
The “opposition” that oversaw the Gaza genocide. No, they are, in the words of German Chancellor Merz, perfectly happy to let Trump do their “dirty work.” All the better if it blows up in his face. In fact, that’s the whole reason why Trump
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by rainworld 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity
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by rainworld 6mo ago
> I'm no fan of the party in power in the US, but I can campaign and speak out against them. I can raise money to oppose them. I can band together with like minded individuals to protest. You can. Just not in any way that matters. A
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by rainworld 6mo ago
Those who triumphed over “Russia” (also a tell) had anything but immaculate hearts. > The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. Rings a bell. Errors are spreading but “Russi
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by rainworld 7mo ago
> British colonialism So the Palestinians and Arabs thought a hundred years ago. It served them badly. It’s not that US/UK and others don’t get anything out of the relationship, as you note. But the arrows have been mostly pointing

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