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I know it’s the Kyiv Post so there is “bias1,” but we betrayed the Ukrainians, no matter what any doofus leftist type claims. We promised them security if they’d get rid of their nuclear weapons and otherwise disarm and we didn’t follow through on that.

And because of that betrayal, we’re likely to be fighting the Russians in Europe within the next 10 years. Good job, us.

  1. More here a “factual assessment of what actually occurred.”

Stick

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Not a noble death at all. Sinwar was responsible for getting dozens of thousands of his fellow people killed — which was the whole point of the October 7 Hamas operation. None of it brings Shani Louk or the others who died that day back, but a well-deserved death indeed.

Close Approach

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Every time I watch crap like this, I do not understand what the fuck the Russians are doing. Why did they just roll up on an enemy tank? Why do their main guns never fire? What was the purpose of any of that?

I know the Russians might eventually win just on mass of materiel, personnel and outside help (China, North Korea) but damn they are not smart. My guess is that the Russians thought the tank was completely disabled (it at least partially is, as it’s smoking and never maneuvers as well as never using the coax gun), but approaching a known enemy tank that is not confirmed dead is FUCKING SUICIDE.

As we can see.

Knowing the Future

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The other day, I saw some clown in a now-lost article claiming that only psychotic people go to the Combat Footage sub-Reddits and places like that. While I am sure that there are some of those types there certainly, many of us go there to see what the present and future of war will be like. Because there will be war or at least the threat of it — that seems a human constant. If it’s not with Russia or China (for the US), it will be with some other entity.

Is it so hard to imagine that a lot of people view combat footage to try to forestall those future wars and instead of being psychopaths, are working to bring about peace with the knowledge of what might occur? For many, it appears even thinking about war — or having anyone else ponder it — is a norms violation. But not considering what might happen is also very dangerous as then you cannot prevent it nor prepare for it.

In the movie version of LOTR, Éowyn says, “Those without swords can still die upon them.” There, she was arguing for why women should be allowed to go into battle. In our world, her observation applies: those who don’t care about drones and AI-based drone swarms can still be killed by them. In this world we don’t need to teach everyone to fight, but attempting to understand how war works now and how it will play out in the not-too-distant future will be key to perhaps preventing that war from occurring at all or making it a much shorter affair.

Brothers, sisters, sometimes we must study war to ensure the peace.

Choices

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I’d posit that war is always atrocity, but sometimes it’s better than the other choices on offer. Pacifism has no answers, alas — it just means that those willing to dominate with force of arms and threat of violence do so with no consequences. The same destruction and genocide occur, just with no opposition even in principle.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about meta-evolution and the idea that evolution itself is constrained by the base instantiation of the universe to produce creatures that in individualized form tend to be war-like when combined with the ability to accrue resources that are durable over time.

Still pondering that one.

Against Civ

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Exactly. If some entity invaded the US, I’d to the best of my abilities repel and if needed kill every damn one of them I could get in my gunsight. But I wouldn’t torture or rape them. And I certainly wouldn’t be kidnapping civilian women at music festivals, mutilating and violating their corpses and then parading them through the streets in celebration.

That is the behavior of psychopaths. That is against all ethics and morals. Anyone who in any way supports that is my adversary and is the enemy of civilization itself. Hamas and those like them deserve to be crushed for this. They are the enemies, in fact, of the very idea of ethical conduct and morality itself. There is no coming back from what they did to Shani Louk and all the others whose lives and beings they desecrated with their savagery.

And if you disagree with me here, you’re my foe too.

Shani

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Good. Wish I could’ve pulled the trigger myself. I have no compunction nor remorse for taking out trash. That would have zero weight on my conscience because I would’ve done the world a service. I’d never torture anyone, as they tortured Shani. It’s pointless. It’s counterproductive. But some people just deserve two bullets in the head and one in the heart.

Because these sort of things should be seen, and because her family wanted this anti-civilized horror to be witnessed to shame the world, here is Shani’s body with the (mostly) now-dead savages (it’s not clear Shani is dead yet in this photo or not but I hope she was1):

But let’s not remember her like that only.

What happened to Shani is what you support when you back Hamas, you useful idiots.

  1. There is an even worse video where her lifeless naked body is paraded through the streets of Gaza, but I can’t bring myself to watch that again. And I don’t want to subject anyone else to that either.

Haunted

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There are a lot of dead people in this video. If you can’t handle that, don’t watch it.

That said, if I were Israel and this had happened to my country I’d have been even less restrained than they are. Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations and they hide among civilians. Their goal is get their own people killed to whip up sympathy. Pretty fucking slimy. And it’s not that Israel has done everything right, but I understand the rage and the tactics they use. Given the opposition, their choices are narrow.

By the way, butchering civilians at a music festival is indeed a war crime.