Dolores

there were not decades of cuts. Obama's "modernization" efforts were categorically expansion and escalation.

im confused, what is the point of this if the current ballistic missiles on the subs could hit anywhere in China?? cruise v ballistic seems like grifting on a nuclear level, tactically/conventionally there's a difference but 1,000 nuke exchange it doesnt really matter how they fly everyones dead anyway

DPRK, they dont have income tax

french police are a part of the french military, in a colonial context like this they are 100% an army of occupation

common good

what is good for the commons about shoveling more unwilling ukrainian bodies at a fight they want to be over

also a deeply unpopular politician on the mainland so it's also a show of good faith

unlimited genocide on the memory of the white butcher of shanghai and taipei

what does shutting down sex work and bars do unless children are at bars & doing sex work???? classic carceral thinking, making whatever processes/institutions that enabled this more oblique and underground than transparent

urging the french people not to be 'cowardly'

why cant they build a suitable airfield in ukraine?

where does it say that? Putin saying they'll shoot down f16s outside Ukraine could just be in Russia's territory or if they fly over a neighboring country like Belarus

this statement is in compliance with international law and not much of an escalation, because Ukraine was already doing that. nato press avoids talking about how many ukrainian attacks on Russia have basically been terrorism, but they're definitely allowed to attack military targets on paper, or else Russian would have to limit their air attacks to the contested oblasts, which they also do not