Burstar

Burstar , 5 days ago

They said while wasting even more time typing about it.

Burstar , 5 days ago

The tragic irony of so many chickens coming home to roost but still being unable to feed the "martyrs of the future".

Burstar OP Mod , 5 days ago

but but... mUh LeGaCy!

Burstar Mod , 7 days ago

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Burstar , 8 days ago

To be fair they literally asked for it and continue to do so by taking and not releasing the hostages.

Edit: It doesn't help that when killed the other civilians refer to them as martyrs. The whole thing is incredibly ugly and done for imo stupid reasons on both sides.

Burstar , 8 days ago

No need to lie. Israel isn't innocent, but Hamas has a demonstrated reliable record of using civilian deaths for their ends. They are counting on your naivete to gain sympathy and support and you're falling for it when in actuality this is their ducks coming home to roost.

Surrender. Release the Hostages. Crisis averted. Do they? Nerp. Instead its "you're killing civilians like we've intentionally aimed for for decades! Unfair plane!"

Burstar , 8 days ago

You understand 'imprisoning terrorists' /= 'holding hostages' right?

Burstar , 7 days ago

Because imprisoning terrorists is what it is correctly called

Burstar , 5 days ago

Hamas Acts of Terrorism that gave zero due process to their victims

Burstar Mod , 8 days ago

username checks out

Burstar Mod , 9 days ago

It is not difficult to aim up or down. In fact, the greater the angle from horizontal the less the bullet trajectory is affected by gravity. It literally shoots straighter. Well trained shooters will understand this and compensate for it easily. That video talks about air rifles, the ballistics of which are not relevant to aiming the weapons being used to shoot at drones.

The real issue is that it is very difficult to judge the distance and speed of objects in the sky as there are few objects to gauge the target's distance against. Let alone that the shooter may have no idea the actual size of the craft they are trying to shoot down.

Burstar , 11 days ago

Yes and totally had nothing to do with the fact the belligerents were on all continents except Antartica. Total propaganda with no basis in accuracy whatsoever.

Burstar , 11 days ago

Yeah it's a ridiculous stance to take, particularly for WWII. Of the 6/7 continents (Antarctica not included) only Africa and Australia were colonial participants. US, UK, France, Japan, Germany, China, Russia all were not colonies. Direct conflict occurred on Africa by Germany and Japan bombed Australia. Thus to say 'WWII' is a propaganda title to make it sound bigger than it was is at best a pedantic argument as all continents (except Antarctica) were affected by a non-colonial belligerent.

Burstar Mod , 14 days ago

More likely the finished product was placed on top of the box and taken out for the photo op.

Burstar , 15 days ago

This headline a few centuries ago: How trade with the New World tragically turned its noble indigenous peoples into alcoholics.

Burstar Mod , 16 days ago

Patently false. There are many, many who earned their infamy. All those involved in the kidnapping of children, the rapists, those firing on civilians, and all the leadership encouraging all these reprehensible acts to name a few.

Burstar Mod , 16 days ago

Your Hitler example is perfect IMO. There were many beyond Hitler in Germany that deserved the hatred directed at them whether directly through horrific acts or indirectly due to their apathy or ignorance. The civilians in the towns directly adjacent to liberated concentration camps were forced by allied forces to aid in the cleanup and recovery of the camps and their victims. Many of these 'innocent Germans' expressed outrage at their 'undeserved' treatment like as seen in this video. They didn't deserve sympathy either.

At a certain point 'I am just an innocent wittle civilian who has done nothing wrong' is a cop-out. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [people] should do nothing" -Burke.

To be clear this isn't to justify warcrimes on civilians. It is merely to say her crocodile tears fall on deaf ears.

Burstar Mod , 15 days ago

Her statements in the video suggest otherwise:

"[Russians] have a strong nationality", which to me means they identify with their country and consequently its government. This statement alone says she should be emotionally responsible for her government's actions as it indirectly or tacitly supports them.

"We are not an aggressive people". False. Your nation is currently waging one of a series of aggressive wars in the region of late and there are numerous Russian videos that show how common vehicular accidents have everyone involved (and more) exiting their vehicles armed with melee weapons (crowbars, bats, etc...). Not an aggressive people? Relative to what, the Mongol Horde?

Members of hostile Nations have a burden of proof to show they are willing to play ball with other civilizations. The very fact she's crying about the unfair treatment instead of asking 'why all the hate' and trying to dispel everyone's very reasonable concerns is another strike against.

If she actually sat down and learned what her country was doing to innocent Ukrainians, and publicly denounced their actions she would have my sympathy. Until then she is a citizen of Orkistan, raised to hate the West and believe her governments lies since birth and cannot be trusted.

Burstar Mod , 15 days ago

Because in the video she declares "Russians are a nationalist people" and simultaneously not once clarifies that she disagrees with the government. When you say you love your country it is assumed you mean its government too unless you say otherwise.

They are raised from birth to hate the West and believe their tyrannical government's lies. This compounds the need to expressly rebuke Putin etc for Russians looking for sympathy.

Burstar Mod , 18 days ago

“I think it’s vital that we continue to play that role. I have seen in the program for [the] new government that the support [for] Ukraine will continue, that the new government also values the European Union, NATO, etc.,” she said.

Burstar Mod , 19 days ago

If it convinces a soldier to mobilize it worked. That's all this cope coop is designed to do.

Burstar , 21 days ago

That'll buy a lot of Ramen noodles from the commissary.

Burstar Mod , 23 days ago

I'm no expert, but at first glance that looks like a BLEVE to me instead of ordnance detonation. Too much fuel slowly burning off after the fact. Could very well have been a strike that hit a fuel truck or something ofc, but my bet is either neglect or sabotage of some fuel store.

Edit: oh, and the falling large debris in the last clip of the actual explosion is why you do not assume being anywhere near the blast radius is safe. If you ever see a fuel tank of any type burning you turn and run and get to cover strong enough to withstand whatever is burning landing on it from 2km high.

Burstar Mod , 28 days ago

Right now Russia is not forcing anybody in combat.

There are numerous examples of Russia conscripting unwilling 'volunteers' as punishment for criminal offences, protesting, etc... Additionally, a policy of 'advance or be shot' strains the credulity of the claim 'nobody is being forced into combat'.

Burstar Mod , 1 month ago

I was going to remove this post for not being explicitly related to Ukraine but opted to leave it up so this question could be asked and answered for those that don't know the reason(s). In the future the answer should be more polite as this is one of the last places on Lemmy where the realities of this war are disseminated without an obvious pro-Russian bias, and good questions should be encouraged.

Burstar , 1 month ago

;tldw Video claims PBJ time singer was incorrectly attributed to Jermaine Fuller (who is also alleged to be Snoop Dog's brother in-law) and spends 12 minutes describing their entire 'research' path to discovering DJ Chipman is the actual singer with 'Raylo and His Dawgs' co-producing. I have no idea what the latter half of the video rambles on about.

Burstar Mod , 1 month ago

2 Things:

Firstly, Article 5 does not apply to OP's question until Estonia the nation gets attacked. Support troops sent to Ukraine that came under attack could not be used to trigger that article. This is the risk they take.

Second, you misunderstand the wording of Article 5 during an hypothetical attack on a member nation directly. It is not subjective. "An attack on one IS an attack on all". ALL nations would act as if they are under attack. It is their individual responses that are where any possible 'subjectiveness' kicks in meaning each nation would send what it CAN, not everything and the kitchen sink without regard for its own security. That is what that means. This idea that a member nation required to behave like it is under attack would do nothing is... misguided.

Burstar , 1 month ago

Give up. OP is a Russian who's made it their life mission to pollute Lemmy with garbage 24/7

Burstar , 1 month ago

Cyka Blyat!

Astronaut creds please!

Burstar Mod , 1 month ago

The most alarming aspect to this footage is that as a result of the assault the videographer is allowed to record while calmly walking upright.

Burstar Mod , 1 month ago

While being aware of worst case scenarios for Ukraine and Moldova is prudent, and a good argument for why all Western nations should be getting involved as much as possible, this video is mostly fear mongering. It specifically jumps the shark when it gives the Article 5 'what if teknikully' argument allowing Baltic invasion but makes flawed assumptions and uses bad numbers well beforehand (producing 1500 tanks/year now? lul).

Burstar Mod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Russian factories claimed to have delivered 1,500 main battle tanks this year, of which 1,180 to 1,280 had been reactivated from storage

They actually 'produced' ~300. Pulling out 1200 tanks from mothballs can only be done until stores are exhausted.

Burstar , 2 months ago

'somehow'