There’s no malice you should put past any US administration. Weddings aren’t any more okay to bomb than schools.

No, this is what happens when (neo)colonial empires bomb people. Past administrations just happened to prefer weddings instead.

Exceedingly rare Russia W.

Jacobin should be ringing bells louder than anyone that these two are lame ducks who don’t represent the DNC, the voters, or even Dem members of Congress.

Is this non-lame duck DNC in the room with us right now? The assertion that this isn’t just how they always are warrants justification.

Israeli Jews are probably the most consistently evil population on the planet (I’m willing to accept counterexamples).

Carney is now making damn sure that Canada’s next PM is going to be Trump lite, so it is going to be a lot worse.

Generally an appropriate reaction, but this particular brand of clownhood isn’t at all new.

Then why don’t they attack already? Given their posturing and the overall situation I highly doubt they’re expecting cooler heads to prevail.

US allies (including Europe, but relevantly to this comm Canada) for pretending they care about international law yet going along with every instance of blatantly illegal and amoral US imperialism. Most recently, Carney is backing US strikes against Iran “with regret.”

They basically already are. They’re not attacking because they can’t, not out of measured caution.

I understand he’s desperate but I’d lose a lot of respect for Zelensky if he went ahead with this. He of all people should know what it’s like when murderous imperialists try to force regime change on you.

Saying he supports the war but he’s kinda sad about it definitely counts.

Yes and I wonder whose fucking fault that is. Hint: It’s not only America.

Really, their incompetence is the silver lining in all this.

People follow the religion of their kings.

-Ibn Khaldun circa 1377

Unfortunately this is closer to the norm than to being an exception.

Gee, I wonder if there’s some way they could’ve survived without needing to shoot down full drone barrages then. I wonder what that could be.

That strategy failed miserably against the Houthis.

Yeah that’s true; I’m intentionally taking the bait because I make it a point to call out bullshit.

To be honest I didn’t know that (WTF Trump), but the conversation is clearly about events after the full-scale invasion. The person I replied to implied Trump completely cut off aid to Ukraine after his reelection.

And how many of those are unfulfilled and/or watered down Biden promises? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. She did nothing to make people believe she was actually going to do these things; promising to put Republicans in her cabinet certainly didn’t. Campaigning on fracking certainly didn’t. Dickriding Israel certainly didn’t.