I got banned from one of the NCD communites (not world, different instance) here for insinuating the US doesn’t want Ukraine to join NATO lol

Right? US spends a metric ton of money on bases and basically running the middle east, they could at least throw in a nicer regime instead of some insane monarch dictators.

I’m waiting to see if Trump/pentagon escalates or does their strike package and goes home.

I doubt this is going to lead to some sort of ground invasion. Biden would have done the exact same although maybe more clandestine.

China doesn’t want to make the same mistake as the USSR which is expending geopolitical power to maintain an entire hegemony against the USA. They’re content with making money and don’t spend a lot of energy keeping extreme espionage on every country like the USA does.

China knows the US will take the military option if confronted, which is to their disadvantage, so they’ll find every alternative path or method.

Biggest example is Pakistan. Its a massive CPEC project and defense partner, yet the military leadership in charge is basically a US lapdog because China knows if they try to pull the same regime change shenanigans, its just gonna end up like USSR vs USA 2 with a crap ton of proxy wars everywhere.

I think their longterm goal is to just slowly erode at the global economy. Even if the US owns the regime in the country, a significant portion of money will be going to China. They could choose to eventually use that power to reinforce their allies, but I think that’s still like 20+ years down the line.

MAD safer no, but essentially disabling conventional warfare as a practical idea yes.

India and Pakistan are armed to the teeth, yet they haven’t fought a real war ever since they both got nukes.

That’s not true, they got the same centrifuges as NK which they (and LIbya) bought from Pakistan lol.

Although it also took NK an additional 15-20 years to actually make a usable bomb, so maybe having your nuclear scientists and enrichment plants destroyed every year doesn’t really speed up the process.

Either that or Pakistan sold them duds lol

I wonder why the US didn’t allow Israel to target him outside avoiding escalation with Iran.

Maybe the pentagon had a different plan to overthrow the government, and killing him would only reinforce support for the IRCG?

China, India, and Pakistan once again proving that having nukes does actually matter because you can’t be arbitrarily shoved around around by the only other nuclear powers.

What about Pakistan?

Netanyahu went on a massive warning rant about them having nukes and using it all over the middle east, yet they haven’t.

I thought they actually mitigated this “side channel” leak the first time it was pointed out. Had no idea there’s still a tracker lol

Pakistan is the other lone stander that absolutely refuses to recognize Israel and also happens to have nukes that can reach Israel, yet they’ve done jack on that sentiment, despite the ISI having a history of outplaying Mossad.

Iran wants nukes for the same reason everyone else has nukes. It’s just a gg ez ace up your sleeve that can be utilized to prevent this exact conventional warfare escalation by threatening to use your nukes, which is exactly what Israel does to the other surrounding arab states. Moreover it would be dumb to nuke Israel when they keep daydreaming about reconquering the holy land, which would be impossible if its covered in radiation.

Pakistan and India’s LoC is a massive militarized flashpoint that imo suprasses the DMZ, yet overtime they have a fight, it over after a few days when they nuke threat comes out and everyone signs a ceasefire agreement no questions asked.

Iran wants the same deal so they can be left alone to run their authoritarian regime in peace lol.

Yeah but afaik that’s just a rule for burying people, ie no mutilation. Death by dismemberment and explosion (or any post death mutilation) doesn’t disqualify you from heaven in any particular way in Islam.

Actually a lot of their famous leaders and scholars have been beheaded just because it’s the most straightforward way to kill someone with a sword.

Uh, source?

Not that it matters that much anyway, HTS is essentially a joint puppet project by Turkey and the USA.

As long as whoever is in charge follows their geopolitical demands, they really won’t care how they handle the internal country.

Still at least it’s a significant upgrade from Assad. Anyone would take this over chemical weapon civil war again.

and not the democratically-oriented Northern Alliance which was fighting them at the time, as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

You’re joking right

Please tell me this is sarcasm bruh

Cool, now we’ll get an influx into lemmy.world and I’ll finally have a reason to abandon this account lol

JVM and Android dalvik ART are still alive and well because if we could use clown circus Javascript to run WWW for 30 years, we sure as hell can use “My Big Fat Gabrage Collector: The Boilerplate Saga” to run all of our applications and backend infrastructure.

Yeah it’s great because even without a make plugin, you can just add your make command to the vscode actions that’ll run your makefile.

Or even better, get the plugin which will auto populate targets from the makefile lol

I mean, it’s still quite the elephant in the room that hasn’t really been talked about.

Judaism is a restricted affair, you have to be born into it to be considered a part of the group that God has chosen to be saved. To them, almost everyone else is permanently non qualified, therefore they are not in the group. If you do want to convert, you have to jump through a bunch of hoops, and put up with a ritual of rejection until you’re accepted. By definition it’s an ethno-relegious group.

From that viewpoint, it’s only a skip away from ethno-nationalism, which is what Zionism is.

Unlike Christianity and Islam which offer the ability to join, and actively convince you to join. (Also Hinduism, Buddhism, etc).

There are only about 15 million Jews compared to 2.6 billion Christian and 1.9 billion Muslims.

Food for thought.