I’m not comfortable claiming that they knew about it in advance but yeah the situation is strange. According to reports a thousand tourists have been sauntering in this remote area which had no security presence. After the attacks, it took the police 45 minutes of hiking to get there.

Insights on what specifically? The main point of contention is that India believes the Pakistani state to be aiding terrorists in Kashmir. I personally think this is true in general. Can’t say for specific attack itself but its not unlikely. India started escalating against Pakistan after the attack. The potential breaking of this water treaty is a part of that. Pakistan has retaliated too. They have closed off their airspace to Indian aircrafts. I think trade relations have been halted too and all the bilateral agreements are on the chopping block.

India is probably seeing this as a good pretext to increase military presence in Kashmir. I hope there isn’t war and bloodshed. There is too much of that going around already.

We did it Patrick! We saved the taxpayer money!

Protection racket

DO IT

Extremely low bar but true

Scariest bit is that if the ICE blackshirts nab you, instead of being just deported back to your home country you are first tortured for weeks in their detention facilities.

Now criminalise Fr*nch

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Look at my AI crawler honeypot dawg its using AI generated content for scientific and factual accuracy to prevent the spread of misinformation.

Just use a simple markov chain man.

It’s kinda crazy how many Europeans work in American tech companies only for them to flout EU regulations.

I had no idea this had happened.

Thiel looking much better in that photograph. The new blood boy must be good shit.

I don’t know how you all are able to read stuff like this.

I acknowledge that articles this like that have valuable bits and pieces in them. But this guy just goes full terminal great man theory in the first paragraph and I have to get up and walk around a bit after reading that.

Main reason is that NATO provides a convenient pretext for maintaining American presence in and around Europe which helps keep Europe subservient to USA. They could keep American troops if NATO is dissolved but that feels like an awkward situation since that is the kind of thing that is usually done to black and brown people of the rest of the world.

Second reason is that the chain of possible events suggested in this piece seems incoherent to me. It goes like: US pulls out of NATO -> EU starts rearming itself -> EU keeps down the untermensch. It doesn’t make sense to me. A natural consequence of US pulling out would be make Europe a little bit more sovereign which would make them more likely to seek peace with power countries.

I think the US wants to push European defense spending up and for doing that it is crucial that they keep NATO around and have NATO military spending requirements around as a pretext otherwise it will be much harder to get public approval for this irrational spending.

US having talks with Russia I put that on Ukraine having been pretty much defeated and US trying to pivot to Israel (maybe China) combined with how attacking Ukraine has been a core republican talking point to attack Democrats.

For Balkanising EU I am not sure about that. Haven’t considered that possibility yet.

TBH US backing out of NATO seems impossible. My guess is that it is all saber rattling to manufacture consent for pushing European defense spending up.

Imperialism is when one country crosses the border of any other country, all other context be damned.

Inshallah

Am I blind or does the article not say how exactly the dweebtruck prevented the rescue?

I am assuming they got locked inside it and it would not let them out. But I’ve seen that happen in movies with fossil fuel cars (yes sorry that is the only benchmark I have). Or it could be the burning aspect of lithium batteries.

You don’t have any cards right now.

We are not playing cards.

You are playing cards.