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I wonder what Israel’s long-term plan is. Because if they achieve their objective and wipe out Gaza then they’re going to be international pariahs for pretty much the rest of history.

Regardless of what governments made decide there is going to be extreme social pressure for businesses to not work with them, and the thing is they represent such a small market it isn’t worth the inevitable boycott doing business with them would result in. The Israeli government have to know this, civilians living in Israel must know this, yet here we are.

They learn the important lesson. Be the ones doing it, don’t be the ones it’s happening too.

Deesi

You definitely used a lot of words there. I don’t really think you said anything, but you certainly used a lot of words.

I think he’s just anti-capitalism. He has no problem with AI he just doesn’t like that he has to pay for it.

Regardless of what JK Rowling is Harry Potter is a international sensation. It’s insane that they’re trying to remake it when it’s what less than 20 years old.

There’s plenty of good IP out there why don’t they make something of that.

Look at the writers guild of America pretending they don’t live in a fascist dictatorship where nothing matters but profits. How quaint.

The chances of this getting blocked under antitrust laws is roughly equivalent to me hitting oil in my back garden.

If it isn’t, it never will be.

Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.

I have one of the originals and it definitely wouldn’t run anything other than Linux.

I don’t know what Nita was never supposed to get to Poland is supposed to mean. NATO was a defence pact to defend against any threat to its members, the idea was to prevent something like what happened in the first world war where everyone ended up fighting each other because of all of the complicated interrelations that had all been independently agreed.

The reason they ended up being butting heads with the USSR was the USSR was constantly interfering with Western affairs. Just as Russia is doing today.

NATO has a policy of never initiating an attack the only reason the military would ever enact would be if a threat was made against one of its member states.

There is zero reason for Russia to consider NATO a threat. But they clearly do so NATO has to defend itself that’s not fear-mongering that’s just being pragmatic.

My problem is your interpretation of NATO’s fairly logical response to a potential threat as seditious or part of some evil conspiracy on the part of the industrial military complex. Sure they’re benefiting from this but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re involvement isn’t partisan.

I would be interested if there are any raspberry pi owning non-Linux users. It would sort of seem like the two would go together.

there are reasons why russia decided to invade.

Yeah the reason being that they believe that Ukraine had little in the way of defence and that they would be able to get away with it. Hence why military posturing is necessary, to convince the Russians they wouldn’t be able to get away with it.

If some disaster took down Poland’s electrical and communication network Russia would be in there like a shot. Don’t try and claim otherwise they have form of taking advantage.

Like how are I go into “appear offline” when someone who I don’t like tries to talk to me in Teams

roflbsst

What Americans think is irrelevant. Their opinions do not matter to the Trump regime. I’m sure most Americans understand that refusing to uphold article 5 would be devastating to US international diplomacy, at least the ones that can read understand that.

Warmongering in this case being defined as discussing the possibility of another nation state attacking them.

No one is arguing otherwise.

But your original question is why do we still need the military when we have smartphones, and of course the answer is because the existence of smartphones does not dissuade the likes of Putin, because why would it?

Most of them are bot accounts run from the Philippines anyway.

Why would Europe engage in a two front war with the United States when it could instead just ignore the United States?

Why would an occupied territory hosting US nuclear weapons build their own nuclear arsenal?

Many of them already do have nuclear weapons of their own. Also the US wouldn’t have any say in whether or not they produce nuclear weapons they could announce their preference but they have no ability to enforce it.