Oh, no, I totally get that. I’m just taking the piss at it.

I’d also avoid any kind of tea. Tea in Russia has been known to come with a complementary side dish of plutonium

I think it’s unfair to put the US and Iran on the same level here. Iran is in the Middle East. America isn’t. Claiming that “Iran said the US should stop bombing civillians” as if it’s something bad is simply outright stupid, and that is what my comment is trying to point out. The US has no business to bomb people half way across the globe.

At least Iran is in the Middle East. America isn’t. America is in North America.

The AfD has ties to Putin?? No way!! No one could’ve seen that coming

They’re that old everywhere. They’re transformers. They don’t just break like that by themselves. If they work they work.

Yeah… good luck doing that. We can’t even do that in Europe and we’re worlds apart culturally speaking. You’d think it would be easier for us to spot them. Good luck doing that in Taiwan which basically split ways with communist china not even a hundred years ago.

I’ve seen a ton of NATO generals say this lately. What signs do we have that this is actually happening? I thought we had nuclear deterrence. Somehow everyone is talking now about a direct confrontation with Russia in Europe. Something makes me feel that this is just fear mongering. I think our leaders are doing a very poor job at showing us proof of such a conflict actually happening in the future.

Hungary loves nazis. Hungary does nazi things. Who would’ve thought

This is such a nothing burger. I know it sounds impressive, but this happens quite a lot all over the globe, and it usually gets resolved quite quickly (usually minutes). Packet routing faults are not as uncommon as one may think, especially when ISPs are playing around with their networking stack. Especially DNS related faults. Just two weeks ago Deutsche Telekom managed to take down our entire internet infrastructure (at a big German company) because they were playing around with their DNS. Hell, even service providers like AWS can take down a huge chunk of a country’s internet (and this has happened in 2021 in the US). AWS owns over 33% of the global cloud infrastructure market.

They have conquered Al Shifa two months ago. There was so much talk about this supposed command center being run in tunnels under the hospital. Two months they’ve been there and we’ve seen exactly zero proof for their claims. Why would we believe Israel now then?

EDIT: I see I’m getting downvoted. Might I ask why? What’s wrong with what I’ve said above?

Israel committing war crimes like there’s no tomorrow. Accountability needs to be taken.

Now I wonder who downvoted these and why. It’s not fake news. It’s not taken out of context. Why downvote?

Yeah we need another nuclear arms race. Turning Europe into your nuclear backyard surely is a good idea

I’d say the most prevalent ones I’ve seen are Russian and Israeli disinformation campaigns. I wouldn’t be surprised if more countries were in on these things.

Porn

Do explain

Why not

“The UN is now Hamas!!”

Taiwan has been handed over to the Chinese government a long time ago. For two years now the west has been scrambling to open up semiconductor fabs in the US (TSMC in Arizona), Europe (TSMC in Germany) and other Asian countries (South Korea with Samsung, plus many more I haven’t mentioned all across Europe, the US, Asia). Lots of taxpayer money has been handed out to these fabs in the form of subsidies. With semiconductors acting as “a shield” for Taiwan, it’s concerning to see even TSMC spread outside of the country.

The west also relies more on China than on Taiwan economically. Polls also show that over 80% of Japan wouldn’t consider intervening militarily if Taiwan was invaded. Most South Koreans don’t care much either.

Other concerning signs would be that the US has slowly stopped selling Taiwan advanced munitions and other advanced equipment that is very expensive, and has pivoted more towards cheaper munitions. It shows that the deterrence of advanced and expensive equipment hasn’t been working, and that the US is preparing Taiwan more for a war of attrition.

Current signs do not show that the US would intervene if China was to invade, especially after Xi met with Biden in San Francisco last year.

I fail to see how this support would materialise in military intervention. I think it’s unfortunate and I fully support every group of people’s right to self determination and independence, including the Taiwanese under a sovereign Taiwan, but I fail to see a western intervention as realistic.