China to tighten export curbs on critical metals ahead of Trump's return
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he wants to end war with Russia through diplomacy next year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would like to end the war with Russia next year through "diplomatic means" as both countries prepare for President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House.In an interview with the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne, Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end "sooner" than it otherwise would have once Mr. Trump becomes president.
The prospect of Trump returning to power in the United States next year has raised questions about the future of the conflict, as the Republican has been critical of U.S. military aid to Kyiv.
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine "must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means."
Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he wants to end war with Russia through diplomacy next year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is certain that the war will end "sooner" than it otherwise would have once Donald Trump becomes president.CBS News
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'Political malpractice' sorta describes everything he does.
But, as statements go. It has the same value as suggesting he make his own orange die.
American tourist arrested over defacing of Meiji Shrine torii gate
Tokyo police arrested a 65-year-old American man Wednesday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly carved letters into the wooden pillar of a torii gate at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward.
The suspect, identified as Steve Lee Hayes, whose address and occupation are unknown, has admitted to the allegations. He reportedly admitted that he “wrote his family members’ names.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/14/japan/crime-legal/meiji-shrine-defacement-arrest/
[full name], whose address and occupation are unknown [...]
what? So if you knew his addres, you would have doxxed him without a problem?
Hayes allegedly used his fingernails to etch five letters into one of the shrine’s wooden torii gates.
Is it just me or does this sound incredibly painful or uncomfortable to attempt?
digiKam 8.5.0 is released
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/22563127
digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0. This version of digiKam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.Help keep projects like digiKam producing new releases with awesome new features by donating to KDE's fundraiser.
digiKam 8.5.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 8.5.0.digiKam
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Yes, it's one of the main use cases.
"You can use digiKam’s import capabilities to easily transfer photos, raw files, and videos directly from your camera and external storage devices (SD cards, USB disks, etc.). The application allows you to configure import settings and rules that process and organize imported items on-the-fly."
That's only on Linux via the gphoto2 library. Looks like the bugs for Windows are still open.
bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3…
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On Windows you can currently only import from a camera that implements USB mass storage protocol (meaning pretty much no mainstream Android phones which only have MTP and PTP so there isn't a mounted drive letter path).
As someone who needs a photo viewer that has some basic editing tools, is digiKam a good tool? I've tried it in the past to mixed results... The UI and UX leaves a lot to be desired, but I do like the fact that it has local face recognition and other interesting features.
Any suggestions for how this could be a part of my use-case?
digiKam 8.5.0 is released
digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0. This version of digiKam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.
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digiKam 8.5.0 is released
Dear digiKam fans and users, we are proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 8.5.0.digiKam
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People got a little dumber yesterday.
No, it went full time and Tyson lost via decision. But it was just the fact that he was old. You could tell watching that if he were 10 years younger he’d have clobbered Paul.
A lot of people (including me) were hoping for the clobbering, but alas…
Yeah, Paul was bouncing around like an idiot. Tyson didn’t have his legs and kept fucking around with his mouthpiece.
The whole fight looked like a kid who took a couple boxing lessons at the local fight gym challenged someone’s grandpa who used to fight.
Ahhh… that’s what one of the announcers was saying, but it totally looked like a mouthpiece adjustment to me, more than a biting something.
Regardless, Iron Mike wasn’t himself.
Oh wow no way what a surprise I wonder if Paul's agent has a chunk missing from his bank account and I wonder if that same amount of money appeared in Tyson's agent's bank damn wow how crazy who could've seen this coming?
Honestly tho, if you paid to watch a convicted rapist, and somebody credibly accused of sexual assault fight you're kinda weird as fuck
It wasn’t actually pay per view, just sayin
Also, the payday was about 20 mil for Tyson iirc
Tyson needed money and got people excited at the chance of beating up Paul. Him and Paul seem both happy about the fight. It was entertaining to me, but apparently other people had different thoughts on what a 58 year old man can do in the ring. It went exactly the way, I heard many people assumed. Tyson came out hard and got some good hits, but after round 2 he was spent. Paul probably could have KO'd him in the later rounds, but he seemed to let up after he stumbled Tyson with some jabs.
I don't think it was staged or whatever. They are both entertainers that entertained me for the evening. The woman's fight was a better fight, imo. I don't agree with the results of that one though. Still I found it entertaining, which is the point, right?
Why try to act like an AI photo is you?
The headboard has a Mona Lisa horizon going on and the right hand has the classic AI weird hand pose.
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What To Use Instead of PGP
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be doing.
It isn’t.
I don’t blame individual Internet users for this confusion. There is a lot of cargo-culting around communication tools in the software community, and the evangelists for the various projects muddy the waters for the rest of us.
The part of the free and open source software community that thinks PGP is just dandy, and therefore evangelize the hell out of it to unsuspecting people, are the same kind of people that happily use XMPP+OMEMO, Matrix, or weird Signal forks that remove forward secrecy and think it’s fine.
Not to mince words: The same people who believe PGP is good are also famously not great at cryptography engineering.
If you’re going to outsource your opinions on privacy technology to someone else, make sure it’s someone who has actually found vulnerabilities in cryptographic software before. Most evangelists have not.
I’m not here to litigate the demerits of PGP. The Latacora article I linked above makes the same arguments I would make today, and is a more entertaining read.
It is of my opinion as a security engineer that specializes in applied cryptography that nobody should use PGP, because there’s virtually always a better tool for the job you want to use PGP for.
(And for the uncommon use cases, offering a secure, purpose-built replacement is a work-in-progress.)
Note: I’m deliberately being blunt in this post because literally more than a decade of softspokenness from cryptography experts has done nothing to talk users off the PGP cliff. Being direct seems more effective than being tactful.If you want a gentler touch, ask your cryptographer. If you don’t have a cryptographer, hire one.
If you can accept that every billionaire is the result of a failed system, that’s how cryptographers feel about people using PGP.
Instead, let’s examine the “use cases” of PGP and what you should be using instead. (Some of this is redundant with the Latacora article, but I’m also writing it 5 years later, so some things have changed.)
Instead of PGP, Use This
This section contains specific tools to solve the same problems that PGP tries to solve, but better.
What makes these recommendations better than PGP?
Simply, they don’t make cryptographers want to run the other way screaming when they look under the hood. PGP does.
Some people are forced to use PGP because they work for a government that legally requires them to use PGP. In that corner case, your hands are tied by lawyers, so you don’t need to bother with what cryptographers recommend.
Signing Software Distributions
Use Sigstore.
Note that this is an ecosystem-wide consideration, not something that specific individuals must manually opt into for each of their hobby projects. The only downside to Sigstore is it hasn’t been widely adopted yet.
If you’re a Python developer, you can just use PEP 740 to get attestations with Trusted Publishers, which gives you Sigstore for free. For most developers, this is as simple as setting up a GitHub Action to publish to PyPI.This is a developing trend: Other programming language and package management ecosystems are following suit. I expect to see Sigstore attestations baked into NPM and Maven before the next US presidential election. With any luck, your favorite programming language could be on this list too.
Sigstore doesn’t just give you a signature that you check with a long-lived public key, nor does it require you to do the Web Of Trust rigamarole.
Rather, Sigstore gives you a lot for free. Sigstore was designed around ephemeral signing certificates rather than a long-lived private key. It was purpose-built for preventing supply-chain attacks against open source software.
Combined with Reproducible Builds, Sigstore solves the triangle of secure code delivery.
Alternatively, use minisign. If your package ecosystem doesn’t support Sigstore yet, you can get by with minisign (which is signify-compatible) until they modernize.
You can also use SSH signatures, if you’d prefer. (More on that below.)
Signing Git Tags/Commits
Use SSH Signatures, not PGP signatures.
With Ed25519. Stop using RSA.
Sending Files Between Computers
Use Magic Wormhole.
You could also use SSH + rsync to do this job. That’s fine too.
Encrypting Backups
Tarsnap is the usual recommendation here.
There are a lot of other encrypted backup tools that work fine, if you don’t want to give Colin Percival your business. I don’t have a financial stake in any of them, nor have I audited them thoroughly.
Borg uses reasonable cryptography, but I haven’t had the time to review it carefully.
Kopia looks fine, but I really hate that they misuse “zero knowledge” to describe an encryption protocol (rather than a proof system). We should not reward this misbehavior by marketers.
The point is: You’ve got options.
Too many options, in my opinion, to settle for PGP.
Encrypting Application Data
Avoid: OpenPGP, OpenSSL and its competitors.
Not a lot to say here. I’ve written a lot about this over the years. Misuse-resistant cryptography libraries–especially ones that make key management less painful for users–are the way to go.
Encrypting Files
Use age.
Age is what PGP file encryption would be if PGP didn’t suck shit.
Age has two modes: Public-key encryption, and password-based key derivation.
Here’s a quick comparison table between what age offers, and what PGP uses in the installed base:
| age | PGP | |
| Data encryption mode | AEAD (ChaPoly) | CAST5 (64-bit block cipher) in CFB mode with a strippable SHA1 “MDC” |
| Key-commitment | Yes (via the header) | Pah! You wish! Dream on. PGP isn’t even AEAD. |
| Password KDF memory hard? | Yes, with scrypt. | No. |
| Vulnerable to chosen-ciphertext attacks? | No. | Yes, but PGP proponents stupidly consider this a good thing. |
| Supports 90’s-era cryptography? | No. | Yes. |
| Releases unauthenticated plaintext? | No. | Yes. |
| Uses versioned protocols rather than “cipher agility”? | Yes. | No. See: 90’s era cryptography. |
| Most common implementations are memory-safe? | Yes (Go, Rust). | No (C). |
Like, it’s not even close.
Some PGP proponents will insist that AEAD is possible now, but as long as the installed base of PGP remains backwards compatible with the lowest common denominator, that’s what your software uses.
Just use age. Or rage, if you’re a Rust enthusiast.
(And if you have concerns about “which age key should I trust?”, I’m already planning an age-v1 extension for the Public Key Directory project. More on that below.)
Private Messaging
Use Signal.
Security teams around the world insist that they need PGP for bug bounty submissions or security operations, but Signal does this job better than PGP ever did.
Once upon a time, you needed to give people a phone number to use Signal, but that hasn’t been the case for a long time. Still, many people have missed that memo and think it’s a requirement.
My Signal username is soatok.45. Go ahead and message me. You won’t learn my phone number that way.
In the near future, I plan on developing end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse (including Mastodon). This is what motivated my work on the Public Key Directory to begin with.
But this is not intended to be a Signal competitor by any measure. It’s a bar-raising activity, nothing more.
Miscellaneous PGP Alternatives
This section contains things people think they need PGP for.
Identity Verification
I’m actively working on something better!
If you want the ability to vend a transparently verifiable public key for a given user, that’s one of the use cases for the Public Key Directory I’m designing in order to build end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse.
Although this is purpose-built for the Fediverse, I’ve deliberately included support for Auxiliary Data messages, whose formats will be specified by protocol extensions.
Rather than trying to grok the Web-of-Trust, you can simply have your software check that multiple independent Public Key Directories have verified the record, since its inclusion is published in an append-only transparency log, secured by a Merkle tree.
My design doesn’t preclude any manual key verification, or key-signing parties, or whatever other PGP cultural weirdness you want to do with these public keys. It just establishes a baseline trustworthiness even if you’re not a paranoid computer nerd.
My project isn’t finished yet. In the meantime, you can manually check public keys when using the other recommendations on this page.
Encrypted Email
Don’t encrypt email. From the Latacora article:
Email is insecure. Even with PGP, it’s default-plaintext, which means that even if you do everything right, some totally reasonable person you mail, doing totally reasonable things, will invariably CC the quoted plaintext of your encrypted message to someone else (we don’t know a PGP email user who hasn’t seen this happen). PGP email is forward-insecure. Email metadata, including the subject (which is literally message content), are always plaintext.
There isn’t a recommendation for encrypted email because that’s not a thing people should be doing.
Now, there exists a minority of extremely technical computer user for which Signal is a nonstarter (because you need a smartphone and valid phone number to enroll in the first place).
Because those people are generally not the highest priority of cryptographers (who are commonly focused on the privacy of common folk–including people in poor and developing countries where smartphones are more common than desktop computers), there presently isn’t really a good recommendation for private messaging that meets their constraints.
Certainly not PGP, either.
What PGP offers here is security theater: the illusion of safety. But it’s not actually a robust private communication mechanism, as Latacora argues.
“I insist that I need encrypted email!”
If you find someone insisting that they “need” encrypted email, read up on the XY Problem. In a lot of cases, that’s what’s happening here.
Do they ipso facto need email (as in, specifically the email protocols and email software)?
And do they care more about this constraint, or the privacy of their communications?
Because if their goal just to communicate privately, see above.
If the tool they’re using being email is more important than privacy, they should consider sending empty messages with an attachment, and use age to encrypt the actual message before attaching it.
That’s serviceable, just beware that everything Latacora wrote about encrypted emails still applies to your use case, so expect someone to CC or forward your message as plaintext.
(Unless you’re legally required to use PGP because of a government regulation… in which case, why do you care about my recommendations if you’re chained by the ankle to your government’s bad technology choices?)
Finally, miss me with the “but someone can screenshot Signal” genre of objections.
As Latacora noted, people accidentally fuck up PGP all the time! It’s very easy to do.
Conversely, you have to deliberately leak something from Signal. There is no plaintext mode.
That’s the fucking bar you need to meet to compete with Signal.
PGP fails to be a Signal competitor, in ways that are worse than Threema, Matrix, or OMEMO.
Watch This Space
With all that said, I am actually designing an encrypted messaging protocol that will have an email-like user experience, except:
- Everything is always end-to-end encrypted, with forward secrecy.
- It’s not backwards compatible with insecure email.
- It doesn’t use PGP, or any 1990’s era cryptography.
I can’t promise a release date yet. I’m prioritizing end-to-end encryption for the Fediverse before I write the specification for that project (tentatively called AWOO, but the cryptography underpinning both projects should be similar).
Maybe 2026? We’ll see!
If someone beats me to the punch, and their design is actually good, I’ll update the post and replace this with a specific recommendation.
Against PGP
I don’t know how to get the message out louder or clearer about how cryptographers feel about PGP than what I wrote here.
Latacora wrote their criticism in 2019. As I write this, 2024 is almost over. When will the PGP-induced madness end?
Header art credits: CMYKat and the GnuPG logo.
Update (2024-11-16)
Someone tried to use their Fediverse software to submit an anti-furry comment to this blog post.
Therefore, I’ve added more furry art to it.
#alternatives #codeSigning #digitalSignatures #encryption #PGP #security #SecurityGuidance #signing
there are reasonable complaints about pgp, but where on earth do you take the "CAST5" complaint from? Pgp has been using AES as symmetric cipher by default for ages.
Also, RFC 9580 is out for almost half a year now, it specifies AEAD based encryption among other new formats.
(Again, i don't disagree there's a lot to complain about in pgp.)
Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media
Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media
Today's open social networks have a lot to learn from each other.Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)
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The average user is hopping from phone app to phone app, following their favourite interner celebrity. They don't care about the rest.
Meanwhile, VC backed businesses can buy internet celebrities, and on the cheap.
🤷♂️ there's got to be some place for the average person to go without being screamed at by some nerd calling them a boot licker.
I also think the "confusion" of fediverse is overblown. People aren't confused. First adopters who don't want to be screamed at by flying squid aren't telling friends and family to join.
The people here and their attitude towards people who don't agree with them are the problem.
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The people here and their attitude towards people who don’t agree with them are the problem.
And that's a structural problem. The ActivityPub was supposed to allow both the "average person" and the "nerd" to coexist in the same platform, without one getting too much in the way of the other; it doesn't.
I'm not sure on a good solution for that.
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My nerd and techy friends, even the more progressive ones, do just fine in most places.
Lemmy has the extremist and most angry.
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They tolerate each other enough to get each into a corner and not interact much.
And yet that is not what we see in the Fediverse. Those "corners" don't exist here.
I'm almost sure.
Your typical instance only defeds another as a last case scenario, due to deep divergences or because of blatantly shitty admin or user behaviour. But, past that, they're still willing to let some shit to go through - because if you defederate too many other instances, with no good reason, you're only hurting yourself.
That's simply not enough to create those "corners". Specially when all this "nerds vs. normies*" thing is all about depth - for example the normie wants some privacy, but the nerd goes all in, but they still care about the same resources.
*I hate this word but it's convenient here.
Defederation from hexbear.net happened quickly and with very little debate. The mods on world ADORE censorship. They are almost worse than even the censorship on Reddit. If you’re too left or right wing for them, you’re going to have a very bad time. It’s forced centrism through putting up unavoidable blinders and it is the kneejerk reaction of that instance (and a few others).
Same with hexbear. They banned me for not being left wing enough. This behavior is more toxic than a place where all are allowed to communicate IN GOOD FAITH and are only censored or banned when it is ABSOLUTELY the only option to move forward. Hiveminds are bad. Banning people and defederation is utterly anathema to the intended purpose of the fediverse. Anyone who supports censorship should take a step back and think humbly and deeply about what they are doing, smugly preventing others from expressing their opinions.
Can you come up with more examples? Because you're coming across as "this happened to me, personally, once, therefore it's run amok!"
No one is saying that defederation doesn't happen. They're saying it's not the norm. And hexbear isn't the norm, any more than lemmygrad, or poa.st are.
Bluesky: You are immediately and automatically welcomed into the warm embrace of an algorithm that entices you into a parasocial relationship with the synthetic community it has created.
Mastodon: If you're lucky you'll stumble across a warm welcome for new users explaining how posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.
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Wow, you signed up yesterday and determined, “an algorithm that entices you into a parasocial relationship with the synthetic community” all on your own?
It’s not any of that…
But If what it truly is, isn’t for you, that’s fine too.
Åklagare dömd för tjänstefel. En kvinnlig åklagare i 30-årsåldern som är kusin med den gängboss som brukar kallas Jordgubben har under flera år arbetat som åklagare med ansvar bland annat för gängmål i Stockholmsområdet.
Flera tillslag mot fakturafabrik. En man som sedan tidigare är dömd för grova ekobrott misstänks nu för nya brott. Bland annat grova bedrägerier mot ett flertal finansbolag. Brottsupplägget misstänks vara ett sätt att avlöna personer som är kriminellt belastade och med kopplingar till grov organiserad brottslighet.
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Det kustnära och småskaliga fisket fiskar inte upp sin kvot. Det pågår ett stämndig gnäll från miljövänner, okunniga och kappvändande politiker från alla partier och enstaka forskare om att en större del av kvoten på sill/strömming i Östersjön borde gå till det småskaliga fisket med trål och garn.
Ukraine War to End Quicker Under Trump, Zelenskiy Tells Suspilne
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells Suspilne media platform that under US president-elect Donald Trump the war in Ukraine will end quicker, according to Suspilne website.Trump, who takes office in January, has said he’d seek a quick deal between Kyiv and Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a phone call earlier on Friday, the first direct communication between the leaders in almost two years and discussed the war in Ukraine.
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Elensky
If this were about the survival of his people then he wouldn’t have scuttled the Minsk Agreements. And he would have taken a much better peace deal ~2.5 years ago then he’ll ever get now, saving tens to hundreds of thousands of his people’s lives. But it isn’t about the Ukrainian people, it’s about the Ukrainian state and his own hide. It’s certainly not about the men being dragged off the streets by conscription squads and shoved out to the front line to die.
Right: iT WAs uNProVoKEd!
- 1: NATO expansion
- George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
- Jeffrey Sachs, May 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
- Jeffrey Sachs, Sep. 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- 2: US-backed western Ukranians ethnically cleansing eastern Ukraine
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
- Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
- Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
- History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
The US has wanted to Balkanize Russia ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, as laid out by Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard. It especially wants to now that, under Putin’s leadership, Russia has kicked the Western neocolonial/noeliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country.
The US used Ukraine as a pawn to engineer this confrontation, with the hopes of Russian regime change, or better still Russian Balkanization. The US wanted this war. It worked for decades to create this war, much like it worked to create the Soviet-Afghanistan war decades before, to weaken the Soviet Union. The US does this kind of thing all the time.
Imagine if Russia (or say China) were expanding its “defensive alliance”* into south & central America, and making plans to expand it further, right up to the California–Texas border, which would likely lead to “defensive” nuclear weapons right on our back porch. Maybe they’re in talks with Canada as well, in an effort to “contain” the US. And imagine also if there were a large American-speaking population in northern Mexico, which were being ethnically cleansed with tacit assistance by the Mexican government. Realistically—regardless of what is internationally legal (which the US usually ignores anyway)—what would the US do?
NATO, BTW, *is not a defensive alliance.
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023:
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
- Counterpunch, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
But the US doesn’t make Canada or Mexico regularly feel like they need to join a defensive alliance to protect themselves from the US.
Canada is a NATO member but Ukraine isn’t a CSTO member.
Essentialist bullshit. You may as well say, from feudalism to capitalist settler-colonial genocide & slavery to imperialism: this is all we know.
I’ll take the CCCP, or even modern Russia—as shitty as it is—over this:
- World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country
- List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
- A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
- The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
- Shock therapy (economics)
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- The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
- Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.
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Yes, the deal might contain a freeze-frame solution for the already captured territories. They would be declared demilitarized zones (under russian administration). In addition to that, Ukraine needs to agree not to join NATO (IMO for the next 20 years or so).
It would be a net victory for Russia.
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- politico.eu/article/west-us-na…
- spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trum…
- Several social media comments I read 😊
Ukraine needs to agree not to join NATO for the next 20 years
This is just delaying the war; neither side will agree to this.
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@freagle@lemmtgrad.ml: Let’s not forget that Trump was the first president in history to send weapons to Ukraine. All prior presidents including Obama said it was far to provocative to do so.
Weird choice of words, provocative refers to something that arouses a strong reaction, while escalating means to increase in intensity or scope.
U.S. officials were concerned that providing Javelins to Ukraine would escalate their conflict with Russia.
A bit of nitpicking that doesn't matter til fact-checking the rest of your statement.
Cotton spokesperson Patrick McCann told PolitiFact that Cotton was referring to Javelins, antiarmor missiles provided by the Trump administration. In 2014, Obama rejected a request by Ukraine for those weapons.
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However, Obama’s White House approved other aid. In total, from 2014 to 2016, the United States committed more than $600 million in security assistance to Ukraine. Under Obama, the federal government started the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which sent other kinds of U.S. military equipment to the country.
From federal fiscal years 2016 to 2019, which overlap with Obama and Trump, Congress appropriated $850 million.
You're misleading people, it did send weapons just not the one that was requested at the time.
Looking at his profile it all makes sense, must be a Trump supporter in hiding wandering Lemmy posts.
Looking at his profile it all makes sense, must be a Trump supporter in hiding wandering Lemmy posts.
Anyone to the left of me is secretly to the right of me.
Your own source says Obama rejected sending weapons, but approved other non-weapon aid.
The single comment you sourced says they didn't want Ukraine's conflict with Russia to escalate.
politico.com/magazine/story/20…
Ukrainian leaders told me that the only action that Secretary of State Kerry and other American interlocutors took was to insist that the government in Kiev should do nothing to provoke Russia, in particular strongly urging Ukrainians not to use force
So your insistence that my word choice is nefarious is only reinforced by your anemic attempt at what you pretend is "research".
You're misleading people, it did send weapons just not the one that was requested at the time.
No. This is not accurate.
cnn.com/2019/09/26/politics/do…
Facts First: Trump is being hyperbolic here. While the Obama administration was criticized for its refusal to provide lethal assistance to Ukraine, it did provide more than $100 million in security assistance, as well as a significant amount of defense and military equipment.
Lethal aid is weapons. Armored humvees are not weapons.
The idea that you think I'm a Trump supporter after reading my comment history is hilarious and says way more about you than it does about me.
Get defs correct
Congress sent wespons to ukraine.
Trump broke the law and delayed the funding in an attempt to blackmail ukraine over US election properganda.
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Twitch declares “Zionist” a slur — and a bannable offense
Twitch says ‘Zionist’ can be a punishable slur.
After calls for Twitch to address antisemitism on the platform, the site’s hateful conduct policy now includes “Zionist” as a potential slur.Ash Parrish (The Verge)
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Twitch has become garbage anyway. I’m more on Kick for streams nowadays.
Anyway wasn’t “Zionist” suppose to be a good term for these murderers? Whether they make it a banable word, screw them. Those who defend Israel, their genocidal actions and claim that the land “belongs to them, the colonizers” are Zionists.
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From the link of this post that you could have clicked on:
Twitch specifies this is conditional: you’re allowed to discuss the political movement of that name, but not “attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”
but not “attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”
Yeah, how dare people try to demean someone just because they checks notes hold dehumanizing beliefs and support a government and movement bent on removing the people from their land so they can steal it and build new homes while ethnically cleansing the existing population.
smh my head.
At the same time I’d like to remind folks that not all Jewish people subscribe to Zionism.
Further to this, the majority of zionists are christians.
If you had looked at the link of this post, you would have read:
Twitch specifies this is conditional: you’re allowed to discuss the political movement of that name, but not “attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”
I.e. nothing is masqueraded here as long as they keep to this. This seems to be a reasonable policy. I've seen a couple of instances of people being derogatorily called zionists just for supporting the people of current Israel not being pushed away out of their now decades-old homes, which is hard to still call Zionist if they don't support any further expansion and any offensive military action.
There's almost never anything gained to use "Zionist" on someone as if saying "asshole".
Twitch specifies this is conditional: you’re allowed to discuss the political movement of that name, but not “attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”
Zionist is a political term, it has nothing to do with one’s background or religious belief.
which is hard to still call Zionist if they don't support any further expansion and any offensive military action.
Your 'if' is doing a lot of heavy lifting. And is fucking hilarious given they keep expanding and pushing people out of their decades old homes.
Funny how that part seems to be ignored in defense of zionists....
You're entirely right.
But see if the political view is only held by members or a certain religious group (even if not all members of said religion accept said political thought), it's easy to conflate it, so that you can ban anyone opposing said political thought based on "they're discriminating against me because of my religion".
Fuck twitch.
If you're equating the Jewish people with zionism, or conflating being in favor of zionism as somehow being benevolent to the Jewish people as a whole, you are treating the Jewish people as a monolith and are yourself being anti-semitic. Zionism is perfectly compatible with anti-semitism (see for example all those anti-semitic christians who enthusiastically support zionism), and anti-zionism is in itself not anti-semitic (cf Jewish voice for peace).
So making "zionist" a slur has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with being anti-anti-semitic or not.
Jewish Supremacism was the instigating lobby for such laws. They wanted to enable other "supremacist liberal-themed" movements to take advantage, and hopefully ally, with Zionism. Me too, at the height of the cultural wars, essentially was representing that women can never lie.
An inherent problem with equality, awareness for oppressed groups, advocacy is that the advocacy never stops at equality. The ADL is canonical example of supremacist overreach.
The same way I don't think we should capitulate to framing "cracker" as a slur, or to framing "black lives matter" as a racist thing to say, I don't think we should capitulate to framing things like "from the river to the sea" or "zionist" as antisemitic.
But, as a thought experiment, let's indulge in this doublespeak trash. What is a good alternative? So far I've got:
- Israeli colonizers
- Jewish supremacists
- genocidal sacks of shit
- Israeli apartheidists
- Isreal expansionists
- Israeli warmongerers
- people in favor of the genocide and apartheid committed by Israel (in full, every time you need to say zionist)
- modern day nazis
- zionazis (technically not zionist!)
So all of this liberal crybaby nomenclature trash aside, I actually do think "zionist" is in itself a fairly useless term for the Israeli apartheid question (as Norman Finkelstein and Judith Butler do too). While one faction of zionism pursued the nakba and massacres from fairly early on, and while this faction has been quite successful, there are other notions of zionism which do not entail murdering children or colonizing a country. When Netanyahu and Chomsky can both legitimately refer to themselves as zionists, I think it's clear that zionism is too broad a term to be useful in the current ongoing genocide and the ethnic cleansing that has been going on for the better part of a century.
Are they gonna lock up genocide joe for hate crimes?
I identify myself as a homosexual.
I've heard homo being used in a derogatory way as an insult. That usage should not be tolerated.
Retarded is just a medical term, yet you can use it as an insult as well.
That is what this "specification of conditional" aims at. It's fine to use the word in a descriptive way, you're just not allowed to go around angrily calling people "fucking zionist"
I actually do think “zionist” is in itself a fairly useless term for the Israeli apartheid question (as Norman Finkelstein and Judith Butler do too).
Do any of the forms of zionism (a belief that they should own the land) involve market purchases of the land they would like? (instead of settler colonial theft?)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*remov…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetbac…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paki_(…
So yeah. Not that 'Zionist' is a slur
Edit: Really, shitty censorship bot? We're adulterating URLs now, and selectively only that specific slur? Gross on both counts
sooo twitch declares the Zionist movement offensive? and should only discussed in sn academic sense? /s
wow twitch, very brave!!
One of the orchestrators of this whole thing, Destiny, defends child porn and the use of slurs.
Ironic is putting it lightly.
They probably don't like zionazi either. Neither this nor zionist is a code word for Jew. The entire political class, the great majority being Christian, and their donors are zionist, because going with the flow of AIPAC is path to get your candidates to also serve your oligarchist or Christofascist protections.
Netanyahuists or likudists or Mossadists or Epsteinists ok?
BTW, Chuck Shumer is going to allow a vote in Senate over this "criticism of zionism is anti semitic" law in US. Reddit also supports mods who recomend permabans over criticism of zionism already.
oh no, statistics that challenge my world view! Quick, let's not look into it at all and move the goal posts!
Could you at least try to engage in this discussion? Or maybe come up with any evidence supporting your world view?
A different definition of the term isn't a different worldview. Also, not immediately spinning every exchange into an exhaustive debate isn't a critical character flaw. Unlike being an insufferable ass about not getting the amount of attention you apparently feel entitled to.
Though I would take look at that poll about 80% of Christians being "essentially" Zionists if you'd link to it.
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Unknown parent • • •Only one of these leaders is unelected, and it’s not the one you think.
I doubt that, but its moot since Russia would inevitably win this war of attrition without having to do it. Also, the whole Russian meat grinder/meat wave thing is just recycled WWII Nazi war propaganda BS.
CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
Right, Enron Musk is personally keeping the Russian economy afloat with his own money 😂 This one really takes the cake.
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Unknown parent • • •When you don't know any history perhaps you should read first then comment.
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As I said, S.Korea is just one example where peaceful protests brought democracy.
Korkki
in reply to Alsephina • • •What he likely means "ending the war by diplomatic means" is not talking or negotiating with Russia. No, that would be worst heresy imaginable. When he has previously talked about the use of diplomacy to find peace, what he really means is for Ukraine redouble it's efforts to beg for more money and weapons, but also get US and Europe to put more pressure on countries like China and India to ditch Putin and support Ukraine instead. Zelensky has talked along these lines before. Make his position seem reasonable to those who who want Ukraine to seek settlement, when it really isn't any different from "Zelensky's peace plan" that can be summed up in demand Russia's unconditional surrender as a precondition to any kind of dialogue.
I fear it's this kinda crazy talk that we are looking at. Zelensky or his inner circle just bring themselves to talk to the Russians, nor can they talk about things like giving up even places like Crimea. They just can't give an inch and we all know what happens to the reeds that don't bend with wind.
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in reply to تحريرها كلها ممكن • • •Democracy in Ukraine ended at the apartheid ethnostate rules against Russian speakers. After the war, all pro-peace reasonable parties were banned, for being pro Russian. All local and federal elections were suspended after Zelensky's term was legally over. Free elections have occurred in Russian liberated regions of Ukraine.
As in Israel, it is inapropriate to categorize apartheid ethnostates as democracies.
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... show moreZelensky's dilemma is that his real powerbase are the militant ultranationalists who surround him, who make up a double edged sword for him. Even if the Ukrainian people would have wanted peace yesterday they are not armed or organized. Zelensky still needs the nationalists around him to stand between him and possible popular uprising and the more moderate wing of the army doing a coup. If Zelensky goes for peace he fears that the nationalists around him will see that as an betrayal of Ukraine, them and those who have sacrificed their lives for their project and will turn on him and arrange an "Russian missile strike" in his office that will kill him and end any negotiations. You must understand that despite being called nationalists, the banderites love their imaginary version of Ukraine more than the actual nation. Ukraine bending the knee to Russia would save the real Ukraine, but it would destroy their ideal version of it and doom and taint their
Zelensky's dilemma is that his real powerbase are the militant ultranationalists who surround him, who make up a double edged sword for him. Even if the Ukrainian people would have wanted peace yesterday they are not armed or organized. Zelensky still needs the nationalists around him to stand between him and possible popular uprising and the more moderate wing of the army doing a coup. If Zelensky goes for peace he fears that the nationalists around him will see that as an betrayal of Ukraine, them and those who have sacrificed their lives for their project and will turn on him and arrange an "Russian missile strike" in his office that will kill him and end any negotiations. You must understand that despite being called nationalists, the banderites love their imaginary version of Ukraine more than the actual nation. Ukraine bending the knee to Russia would save the real Ukraine, but it would destroy their ideal version of it and doom and taint their idea of Ukrainian nationalism forever.
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in reply to Alsephina • • •No chance of help to protect his homeland from belligerent invasion? You've got to cut the losses.
Then Russia can invade in another 10 years and take more. Yay! It can be an every-decade thing!
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in reply to Bobr • • •I guess you're right. If only Zelensky would stop his aggression against the peaceful Russian and north Korean forces freeing Ukraine from the burden of democracy...
In your case I'm leaning on indoctrination. I don't think they'll hand you such a retarded script.
Nice instance BTW. Surely it's not you with 10 accounts trying to circumvent bans.
Bobr
in reply to Railcar8095 • • •If he were to stop his aggression at Ukrainians, I would be satisfied already.
Democracy? What democracy? Did you mean to say Zelensky's authoritarian regime where people are treated worse than dogs?
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in reply to davel • • •Ok but that doesn't change that they're being actively invaded by Russia right now. That does tend to put a pretty big damper on a country's ability to conduct secure elections.
Do you believe the elections in Russia are held fairly? I was under the impression that there are a lot of issues with political repression and electrical fraud, but admit that some of those notions could be more propaganda than reality. I'll be reading more into Russian electoral politics and history in the meanwhile.
From what I read so far, it looks like Russia actually did hold elections for their own government within occupied Ukrainian territory. I'm not sure what to make of that.
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in reply to Ashelyn • • •Putin seems to be genuinely popular, so how fair the last presidential election was is somewhat moot. I think he had a clear majority regardless. Russians have good reason to like him: he kicked the Western capitalist neoliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country. It’s still a capitalist shithole, but at least it’s their shithole and not a neocolonized state anymore.
... show moreI can’t speak to the quality of those elections. Eastern Ukraine had been in a civil war with western Ukraine for almost a decade, and many eastern Ukrainians wanted a Russian intervention, but I’m no expert and couldn’t say what per
Putin seems to be genuinely popular, so how fair the last presidential election was is somewhat moot. I think he had a clear majority regardless. Russians have good reason to like him: he kicked the Western capitalist neoliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country. It’s still a capitalist shithole, but at least it’s their shithole and not a neocolonized state anymore.
I can’t speak to the quality of those elections. Eastern Ukraine had been in a civil war with western Ukraine for almost a decade, and many eastern Ukrainians wanted a Russian intervention, but I’m no expert and couldn’t say what percentage wanted one. Back in 2014, Crimea was very easy to annex, because most Crimeans wanted to be annexed. And they fared better than their friends to their north, who suffered almost a decade of attacks by western Ukrainian Banderites.
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in reply to Joncash2 • • •Ah yes, peaceful, if you erase the Gwang-ju Massacre and other atrocities committed by "The Butcher" Chun Doo-Hwan.
The rights enjoyed by South Koreans were fought for with the blood of workers spilled by their own government and Capitalists. Don't erase them.
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Nice try but you don't get to argue that a protest over 7 years ago and is unrelated caused the peaceful transfer.
I mean you might as well argue that the blood of Americans were spilled for their freedoms in BLM, Kansas State Massacre, the Chicago fire. Oh wait, those protests massacres happened AFTER USA was a democracy. It's almost like they're not related to being a democracy or not and the June protests weren't part of that massacre because it's a 7 YEAR gap.
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •And those protests were like the American protests didn't get anything done. It wasn't until 7 years later when they simply asked nicely. If anything, you're proving violence doesn't work and the best option is to literally simply ask nicely.
Thus, my point about the violent protest being unrelated. It did NOT cause the regime change. I'm not talking about what it's about, I'm talking about what actually switches the government.
I never said nations don't have problem. My list of violent massacres in USA proves that. I'm saying violent protests does not lead to regime change as often as a peaceful transition. Your Korean argument proves that as the violent protest did nothing, vs the peaceful one.
*Edit: To be clear, if we study history we find peaceful regime change far more likely than violent ones. BUT people like YOU keep creating violent situations that do not help the situation. If people like YOU stop being violent, maybe we could work towards actually beneficial transitions.
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in reply to Joncash2 • • •They had already asked peacefully, and were slaughtered for doing so. The change was a cumulative effort with deep contextual history, and didn't happen in a vacuum.
You have **no idea*" what you're talking about.
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in reply to Joncash2 • • •Like I said, you have no concept of time, everything is a static event for you, devoid of context. 1987 wasn't the first time South Koreans fought against a dictatorship, and had been slaughtered for peaceful protests. Just because eventually the government conceded doesn't mean it wasn't paid for in civilian blood.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and insult the Korean people who gave their lives, and insult the families of those who died.
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in reply to Joncash2 • • •Gwang-Ju was peaceful, and the government slaughtered them. You keep pretending violence was the first choice, when peace was. Like I said, you have no idea what you're talking about, and spit on the graves of schoolchildren murdered by Chun Doo-Hwan.
1987 only happened because the years preceding 1987 happened, and you insult the Korean people by lying about their history.
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in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • • •Always so peaceful preparing molotov cocktails and throwing rocks at soldier's heads.
koreasociety.org/images/pdf/Ko…
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Joncash2 • • •Yes, after it was peaceful, it escalated. Peace was the first option, and then the dictator started murdering people. Pretending "just asking" gets dramatic change is horrible, especially when your own referenced article said it was "terribly one-sided."
There's no use talking to someone who supports slaughter of schoolchildren like you.
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...we're jumping to conclusions a bit, aren't we?
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in reply to Cryan24 • • •That's not what Socialism is, or even Communism. In every existing Socialist state, people have gotten higher or lower pay for different levels of intensity or skill. If getting paid the same is "the problem with pure socialism" then it sounds like it's all cleared up!
Secondly, Social Democracy still relies on Capitalism, which necessarily moves in the direction of increased disparity and centralization of power in fewer and fewer hands. Moreover, as companies spread internationally, Capitalism turns to Imperialism, whereby workers in the Global South are paid a fraction of the wages a worker in the Global North would be paid. This form of hyper-exploitation for super-profits results in dramatically unequal exchange and underdevelopment. Socialism is the way forward, beyond this system of exploitation and eventual collapse.
I really recommend you give at least the first section of my reading list a try.
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in reply to Alsephina • • •Very hopeful,
That would mean peace instead of Ukraine becoming a new South Korea. Ukraine led peace negotiations can bring China in to outbid blackrock for the ruins in the country, and perhaps Chinese peacekeepers instead of nazi EU supporters. The Musk plan that was floated is a non-starter with Russia. EU trade deal finally happening is something Zelensky can try for, but Ukraine's purpose was always suicide to the last Ukrainian, and everything dangled as a carrot disappears when they let go of that course.
EU/US have to step up financial reconstruction offers instead of weaponized nazification to be relevant in the peace.
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in reply to humanspiral • • •TIL that bickering over and then eventually sending your left over equipment and other miscellaneous trash to a country under a genocidal invasion is "weaponized nazification".
Most of what the EU sends is financial reconstruction aid. People here are too pussy to send any real help. You're making the EU sound a lot more competent by paining us as some shadow entity manipulation Ukraine.
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... show moreThese claims of genocide by Russia are projection by Western propaganda.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017:
These claims of genocide by Russia are projection by Western propaganda.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
LANIK2000
in reply to davel • • •Not sure what a random definition without explanation, follow be so called "western propaganda", say about genocide in Russia. All you've proven is that the west claims there is genocide. That barely tells us anything at all about Russia!
Let me complete your case and actually include something from the Kremlin as opposed to only "western propaganda".
Here Putin explains why he started this war. He turns the interview into a 2 hour lecture about why Ukrainians don't and never existed and therefor can't have the free will to want to be independent and must be reminded of how they're all actually Russian. Now if that's not a textbook definition of genocide, I don't know what is.
davel
in reply to humanspiral • • •The offers are likely to be predatory IMF/World Bank loans leading to even more neoliberal/neocolonial privatization & austerity.
The US hasn’t given Ukraine a blessed thing: they’ve all been lend-leases that will take the Ukrainian people generations to pay off.
humanspiral
in reply to davel • • •Yes. While the original permawar/10+ year plan was to the very last Ukrainian, there is still a substantial discount available to Blackrock or US-controlled IMF paying blackrock to take over Ukraine. Unlike the ww2 and post ww2 lend-lease agreements that were government controlled, and had the unfortunate side effect of providing US treasury revenue, Blackrock can directly compensate rulers kind enough to grant it riches.
Russia, as in 2014 Yanukovych times, becomes a reconstruction alternative, with new entrant China able to make offers. Blackrock taking everything for free is harder when a peace deal is made where there is a sliver of Ukrainians left.
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Unknown parent • • •- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
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- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
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- Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor's Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
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in reply to davel • • •yt-dlpconverts it to a mp4 successfully for me.yt-dlp https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8davel
in reply to 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo • • •0t79JeIfK01RHyzo
in reply to davel • • •It's kinda wild.
github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/…
It also works in places I wouldn't have expected it, like Twitch livestreams
yt-dlp https://www.twitch.tv/amazonmusicdavel
in reply to 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo • • •Carnage Sleuth
in reply to 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo • • •freagle
in reply to Cryan24 • • •Wow. Immediately going to the myth of laziness right from the get go.
You're wrapped in arrogance armor, placed there by propagandists. It makes you feel well intentioned, principled, correct, and most importantly, educated. The problem is that the propagandists ensured you were ignorant and dogmatic. Now you have the terrible curse of being ignorant and dogmatic but believing you're knowledgeable and principled.
Just study more history. Read the people that you're scared of like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao. Just read more and seek after knowledge that contradicts your upbringing. Most Western communists were raised on the same propaganda you were. We all managed to defeat our training by learning more about what's really been happening for the last 500 years and unlearning the lies we were raised with.
You can do it, too.
Carnage Sleuth
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Unknown parent • • •FourPacketsOfPeanuts
in reply to sparky@lemmy.federate.cc • • •Putin already has his land corridor to Crimea, so why does he fight on? Simply, he doesn't really have a lasting victory unless he achieves regime change in Kyiv. But the idea that the Russian army will simply walk over half the country, install a puppet leader and then go home and everything will be fine is beyond absurd. A defeated occupied Ukraine will be Chechnya x 100 for Russia. Endless droves of dead Russian soldiers succumbing to guerrilla attacks for decades to come.
Georgia is deep in with the EU, has talked about NATO before. Obvs Turkey is EU aligned. As would West Ukraine if any kind of peace . Putin's lost already. His deep sea port on crimea is already surrounded by countries that align with the EU, its legal norms, plus the eventual option of NATO membership.