Thus suffers from the same problem “Adolescence” did; the writing and role is believable enough and the actor looks like they could be as despicable… but then you somehow don’t believe the actor to be that big of a cunt.

Joffrey doesn’t suffer from that, Jack Gleeson is such a brilliant actor I never doubted he could be such a massive cunt. But I know he isn’t. But he made me believe it.

Like Eddie and the kid in Adolescence both have too much humanity showing through.

Now that you mention, yeah, he does.

“Israeli foreign minister indirectly threatens a foreign ambassador who’s spoken out against the genocide”

Yeah the message here is pretty clear.

Ah yes “NATO pls if you’ll just surrender and go away, we pinky-promise not be bad anymore”

With Operation Spider’s Web, (and Russia trying to launch massive counterattacks against civilian populations and still only managing to kill only two people) is showing that Russia might not have as strong of a position as they think they do.

To compare Libya and Iraq to an all out attack on Russia by some imagine combined European pan-national military is just… ugh, too naive for me to even be care about writing a breakdown for.

Enjoy your weekend

Thanks.

I’ve had training. And I’m not talking about my military training, but the several years I spent in customer service.

Ukraine soldiers are trained for 3 months. There can’t be much infrastructure needed for an attack since the battle is on enemy territory when it starts.

Dude. Stop. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and every addition is making it more cringe.

I have the training to train basic jaegers in two weeks. Those are the simple infantry for the front. More specialised soldiers, like NCO’s, especially specialist NCO’s like me, take far longer to train. You know in strategy games it takes longer and costs more to churn our specialised soldiers?

Imagine that you have a league of legends/starcraft/CIV game going and at more than halfway through you decide to just sell all your units and pivot entirely? How would that ever make sense in any game, if not as some weird YouTube challenge? No actual pro-player would ever try something as silly.

That’s a rhetorical example that I hope will convey some of what I’m trying to communicate, since you don’t seem to understand how complex military strategy on a national level is. It’s not like a sentence or two. It’s systems upon systems relying on other systems which are regulated by resources or practical necessities, leaning on other things which are dictated by something else entirely etc etc.

Iraq, Libya and others. At worst we call it a special military operation in support of Ukraine.

So you’re genuinely advocating breaking international law? You don’t actually care about morals? That’s… off-putting, to say the least.

“After these comments…”

Was it you who commented earlier in the thread about something something “fantasy, not reality”? Because you live in some weird warmongering fantasy war fetish laa-laa land. There’s no fucking NSA looking at what people have been writing if you’re conscripted to be infantry. You’re taught how to march, then how to obey, then given a gun, taught how to shoot it, then how to shoot it while moving forward, then taught how to move forwards while shooting it under enemy fire, then how to move while shooting while under enemy fire and communicating with your group (or listening to your group leader/fighting pair).

So, which country is it then? Because you’re saying “we will attack…” but see if there was an offensive from Europe to Russia, it’s highly likely I would be fighting, but I suspect you wouldn’t.

So perhaps stop it with the childish warmongering.

Edit and yes, there is a need to wait for Ukraine EU membership, which there’s attempts to rush through, but international politics don’t work as willy-nilly as online forums. You can’t pretend to ignore global geopolitics.

I don’t think you understand just how large thing a country’s entire military strategy is. You don’t just up and change it like getting a new patch on your favourite game.

There’s infra built literally almost a century ago for these very purposes, the entire reserve would need to be retrained basically.

That’s how we’ve been able to keep Russia from attacking us since the previous bout; by being extremely prepared to defend against an attack.

Also, surely you’re aware that wars of aggression are banned in international law? We can’t just attack Russia with thr combined might of EU armies, as it stands rn.

That’s why we need to get Ukraine to the EU, so that then it’s not a war of aggression, but honoring the mutual defense clause.

That’s also why Russia is pulling off their sabotage like cutting cables and jamming GPS, etc. Because as long as it’s not a direct military attack, EU cannot respond with military force.

Oh and, in which country’s military forces would you be participating in this attack fantasy?

Because the lawmakers are easily led idiots?

Easy to say. You say “we will attack” so I assume you — like me — are part of at least some European military?

I’m in the Finnish Defence Forces. Our entire military strategy is based around defending an attack from Russia, not actively attacking it.

Do you remember how pirating was in the headlines for a long time, how governments actually banned piratebay and various other sites?

Remember how that did jack shit against piracy?

By every account I’ve read from both sides, seems pretty fucking successful.

Awesome.

“Dozens of long range bombers destroyed”

Well yeah. He’s in the right band wagon, is my point.

He didn’t pick it for the right reasons or early enough, but he is — at least in this video — on the right side.

He’s genuinely a worse negotiator than kids.

I bet he has his hand backwards when playing poker, showing everyone else what he has, but not seeing what he has himself.

It’s just incredibly easy to gain popularity with that.

But yeah. No matter what a cockwomble he is, he is right about this. But you know what they say, even broken clocks are right twice a day.

You agree with him on this. Don’t let that make you think you agreee with him, full stop.

I mean for about a quarter of a century they’ve been paying young adults to come and listen to propaganda in Israel.

It is the largest educational tourism organization in the world.

Trips also often include a Mega Event for all participants featuring speeches by dignitaries, including the Israeli Prime Minister, and musical performances by popular Israeli artists. Oh, my bad, not “propaganda”, “educational tourism”.

The tours also include a 5- to 10-day mifgash (Hebrew for ‘encounter’) with Israeli peers, usually soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces. The stated purpose for the mifgash is for the participants and the soldiers to get to know each other and to better understand each other’s worldview and Jewish identity.

Oh yes, I’m sure the IDF wants their soldiers to better understand “other worldviews”. /S

Birthright trips have been described as a form of propaganda.[48][49][50] Jewish Currents wrote, “Birthright has served as one of the most effective propaganda campaigns on behalf of the Israeli government and its occupation of the Palestinian territories.”[51] The organization has been scrutinized for the large proportion of its funding coming from major Trump and Netanyahu backer Adelson.[31]

In 2006, Salon.com alleged that Birthright Israel screened out applicants for political reasons.[52]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_Israel

Well at least there’s a tiny hint of semblance of balance on Wikipedia.

What’s the benefit to the nation?

Why do you even jokingly use a framework in which you’re assuming the current US government does anything “for the nation” instead of themselves?

And also, they’re just gonna ward off attacks with, uhm… gilded smoothie machines and massaging chairs.