Biased, politicised science is real science. Not the platonic ideal you have in your head.

That didn’t feel like science so much as politics and I get why some would be against that.

Respectfully, this is a weak sauce excuse, and a completely unscientific attitude. Scientists do not establish arbitrary barriers between different fields.

These kinds of statements 99% of the time come from people who don’t even do science, and whose understanding of science consists of “take down data points, analyse data points, be neutral” (paraphrasing your comment).

In reality, scientific names are usually given to honor specific people. The idea that the community just gives names to people who discovered things is simply ignorant of history. There are literally cases of people purchasing name recognition. There are also cases of people being honored by having their name on a phenomena they didn’t even discover, or a unit they did not create (typical for units, which are standardised by committees and not named after people in the standardisation committee)

1. Rainy, damp, cloudy, windy weather is peak weather and beats a “nice sunny day” 80% of the time.

2. Ice cream is winter food and not summer food because of how fatty it is. Popsicles are summer food and not so appealing in the winter.

3. All countries should be making a 100% effort towards eliminating all meat (except that produced by subsistence farmers and the like) in their diets for the sake of the climate. Poverty is not an excuse because vegetarian diets use many many times less resources (which is why wealthy countries eat much more meat).

4. Large wealthy countries should provide free vitamin supplements worldwide to reduce diseases.

Oscar Jenkins, 33, was convicted in a Russian-controlled court in occupied eastern Ukraine on Friday of fighting in an armed conflict as a mercenary.

Mr Jenkins, a teacher from Melbourne, was captured last December in the Luhansk region.

Prosecutors said he arrived in Ukraine in February 2024, alleging he was paid between 600,000 and 800,000 rubles (£5,504 and £7,339) a month to take part in military operations against Russian troops.

The article seems to claim that this guy is a mercenary, but someone in the comments is claiming that this guy is not a mercenary because he is a member of the UAF’s foreign legion. I don’t know if there is any additional context here that I am missing.

It sure seems to love selling American military secrets to Russia though.

And so do Americans. Like your argument that the colony controls America is that the colony does bad shit to America. But what part of America doesn’t fuck over America on the regular?

I’m not sure what your point here is. Whether or not the occupation allows American military bases, or whether or not they can get away with sinking the USS liberty is moot. Because the occupation literally is an American (and partly european) operation. Claiming that the occupied zone controls America is like claiming that south Africa controlled Britain.

why would the US care about gaza

Petrodollars, settler colonialism and imperial control. Israel and the Gulf monarchies are the linchpin of the petrodollar, aka the American government’s ability to run a massive trade deficit over decades with minimal inflation, something no other country can do. This gives the American government unlimited spending power (for its military).

There is also the geopolitical aspect of dividing the middle east, figuratively and literally, as well as having a forward base there to put pressure on Europe, Russia and China.

Finally, a huge number of “israelis” are really just American settlers. From the standpoint of the American bourgeoise, having a settler colony with a racialised underclass is very profitable, as this underclass (the Palestinians) are easily exploited workers. Furthermore, the American firms can test weapons on Gaza and their partnership with companies in the occupation yield them economic benefits.

Please no exploitation of gnc folk 🥺

“It’s crucial that your support for Ukraine doesn’t decrease but instead continues and grows,” Zelenskiy said, according to a text of the speech. “And this is especially true for air defense, military aid, and our overall resilience.”

It’s crucial, why? What will it accomplish?

Kallas has put forward a proposal for EU members to deliver as much as €40 billion in military aid this year, stepping up after €20 billion flowed to Kyiv in 2024. Assistance would be voluntary, but participants would be encouraged to make contributions in cash or equipment in proportion to their respective economies. After several countries balked, the debate was narrowed to focus this week on the ammunition component.

Amazing. Every EU country is rushing to ramp up military spending by using the war as justification. Hundreds of millions of euros have been slashed from welfare budgets. And yet, they don’t want to spend any of this money in the country where the war is actually happening!

He said Russia had suffered more than 50,000 losses during the operation - including those killed, injured or captured.

I love how they are clearly just making up numbers.

Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the Kursk operation had “accomplished its task” by forcing Russia to pull troops from the east and relieve pressure on Pokrovsk.

But it is not yet clear at what cost.

It’s over. Ukraine has been "at what cost"ed by the BBC.

So far this isn’t anything like that period in German history.

Seeing the rise of AfD and Germany’s agressive collaboration on the Israeli genocide, I have to respectfully say, liberals like you are willfully burying your heads in the sand.

Poland has been doing more than its share for Europe defense

Europe’s defense against who? Europe faces no actual military threats from anybody. And no, civilians in the imperial periphery or immigrants don’t count as military threats. For the last 3-4 centuries, the only nations who have been killing Europeans are other Europeans.

Americans are more likely to invade Europe than help them in a conflict.

Even Trump, who is trying to shake down Europe has actually continued/resumed aid to Ukraine. I can’t believe that Europeans are falling for a con from the world’s greasiest clown. He only postures so that you guys are scared into spending more money on NATO and American weapons.

Wakes up to do what? Kill more kids in the Middle East?

If NATO tries to get Ukraine to join, the war will be prolonged and escalated. If they don’t, then what the fuck was Ukraine holding out so long for?

NATO is stuck in between a rock and a hard place. There is no way for them to come out of this without taking a massive hit to their reputation (which would be well deserved).

This video is only further proof of this. Europe and America can only “solve” this contradiction in the tried and tested way. Choose the easiest option, loot the parties involved, massage public opinion then move on. And often these steps don’t even happen in order.

They kind of are, since the US military, finance oligarchy, industry and us aligned media completely dominate Canada. For the most part, trump doesn’t even need to annex them to make them into the 51rst state of America.

With the amount this man flip flops, he could power a hundred MW generator. Although this is to be entirely expected for anyone who remembers Trump’s first term.

For years, realist thinkers have been banished to academia or ignored. …

Every single example of the “realists” in this paragraph have them being the ones telling politicians to avoid war and expansionism, the exact opposite of the “strong bullying the weak”! I think it is kind of insane how this is how “realism” is characterized in liberal media. And that too as a “strong bullying the weak” ideology! Liberals have unironically become full on bush-era Neo-cons.

George Kennan argued against NATO expansion in these pages in 1997, predicting that it would inflame Russian militarism and undermine Russian democracy.

Damn, I didn’t know people predicted the Ukraine war that far in advance.

What’s brought about this turn? In part, it is insecurity, the motivation of all bullies.

Day 1041 of me painfully begging people to stop psychoanalyzing their enemies.

Even so, the United States and its allies are stronger than Team Russia and China if they stand together.

I’m beginning to think that when this author decries “realism”, they think “realism” means “being in touch with reality”.

While Mr. Trump embraces some elements of realism — giving in to the strong and sacrificing the weak — his tariff wars and threats against peaceful neighbors could end up being as costly as the military adventurism of the previous liberal order. Rajan Menon, a professor emeritus at the City College of New York, told me that people who expect the Trump administration “to follow the playbook of realism” by showing restraint “are going to get very disappointed.”

Other than the continued use of nonsense categories like “strong” and “weak”, I actually agree with this paragraph.

After Athens sacked Melos, word of its brutality spread. Its allies turned against it. Athens lost the war. Noble ideas, it turns out, do matter.

I know nothing about the history of war but I would be surprised if this is how it actually played out.

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I love how libs spam their jokes so obnoxiously they stop being funny.

God I hope that the US doesn’t somehow force the EU to import American agricultural products. Food safety is the one thing that the EU seems to actually do right.

CBSA officials seized some eight million grams of drugs compared to five million taken by U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) officials last year, government data shows.

Even when using SI units, Americans just have to make it weird somehow. 8 million grams? Who the hell uses grams like that? Just call it 8000 kilos or something

Ukraine didn’t take peace deals throughout the war because they thought the Europeans and Americans had their backs, and would let them into NATO for security in the future.

Now the Ukrainians have lost hundreds of thousands of people, huge tracts of land, and are about to be looted so hard it will make the looting of Russia after the dissolution of the USSR look like a cake walk.

The Ukrainians fought for a lie. Rule no. 1 of geopolitics. NEVER trust the Europeans or Americans. They will always backstab you.