#aggression

mlansbury@despora.de

Taipei replica in remote Chinese province fans Taiwan invasion fears

The satellite images show a detailed replica of the heart of Taipei – albeit surrounded by the arid landscape of Inner Mongolia instead of Taiwan’s lush vegetation.

First posted on social media by a Taiwanese data analyst, on March 26, they were later picked up by the website Taiwan News, under the ominous headline: “China creates Taipei mockup to train for invasion”.

FRANCE 24 was able to verify the existence of the mockup, located some 1,200 kilometres west of Beijing.

https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240401-taipei-replica-in-remote-chinese-province-fans-taiwan-invasion-fears

#China #Taipei #Taiwan #Invasion #war #ChinaAggression #aggression #Imperialism #Mongolia

mulk@diasp.eu

https://www.justiceforall.org/icc-submissions/
The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a digital platform to enable people to submit complaints online to the #ICC with the option to add pictures and videos that show the crimes of the Israeli occupiers against them for the court to consider them and to take a stance against Israel. Those with information relevant to current events in #Israel and #Palestine are asked to provide submissions. Information submitted under this portal should relate to alleged #crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC, namely #War_Crimes, #Crimes_Against_Humanity, #Genocide, or #Aggression.

psych@diasp.org

A holiday gift...
Wisdom, context & perspective, about human nature and chimpanzees too (including some behavioral overlaps!- @29;56)

Hot Earth Truth: Jane Goodall on chimps, conservation and runaway capitalism I Summit Series

Primatologist and renowned environmental activist Jane Goodall joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber in this wide-ranging interview about her pioneering work with chimpanzees, conservation, her new book, and even her new environmentally friendly Barbie doll. This is a new installment of The Summit Series with Ari Melber, featuring discussions with leaders at the summit of their fields.

#JaneGoodall #chimpanzees #intellect #behavior #aggression #ContextAndPerspective #anthropomorphism #TrumpVirus

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

“The double-standards [with regard to Russia] are absolutely breathtaking” de Zayas said, noting how British International Criminal Court ( #ICC ) Prosecutor Karim Khan had discontinued all investigations into NATO war crimes in Afghanistan but continued those into the Taliban against NATO. Now the ICC has issued an arrest warrant against Putin, another one-sided decision that de Zayas claims has made the organization a joke:

“There is no question that here, the #crime of #aggression has been committed, and certainly Russian troops have committed crimes in Ukraine. But you cannot prosecute one side and let the other side off scot-free. If you are going to indict a serving head of state [like Putin], then you would have to indict Joe Biden.”

The United States and NATO, he says, have been carrying out dangerous provocations in Ukraine for years, supplying weapons to militias who use them against civilians, while also carrying out similar crimes to Russia in Afghanistan, meaning that anyone with a semblance of balance or neutrality would conclude that American leaders need to be held accountable, too.

deutschewelle@squeet.me

Kämpfe in Belgorod: Einheiten aus Russen in der ukrainischen Armee | DW | 23.05.2023

Laut Medienberichten kämpfen Hunderte von russischen Staatsbürgern in sogenannten Freiwilligenkorps auf ukrainischer Seite. Wer sind sie und welche ideologischen Positionen zur Zukunft Russlands vertreten sie?#Belgorod #Russland #Ukraine-Krieg #Aggression #Russen #Freiwillige #Einheiten
Kämpfe in Belgorod: Einheiten aus Russen in der ukrainischen Armee | DW | 23.05.2023

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

#Frage and #question
Kann die folgende Meinung als allumfassende geschichtliche Tatsache angenommen werden?

Der völkerrechtswidrige #Angriffskrieg auf die #Ukraine begann, als #Russland im Frühjahr 2014 die Krim annektierte! Eigentlich schon früher, als die sogenannten Volksrepubliken auf ukrainischen Gebiet an der Grenze zu Russland von Russland unterstützt wurden.

Can the following opinion be accepted as an all-encompassing historical fact?

The #war of #aggression against #Ukraine in violation of international law began when #Russia annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014! Actually earlier, when the so-called People's Republics on Ukrainian territory on the border with Russia were supported by Russia.

waynerad@diasp.org

Robert Sapolsky comments further on the war and human aggression. Topics include: The neurological similarity between human and primate neurons, yet no chimp has ever killed another chimp over ideology, over religion, or over arguments about economic systems. War propaganda and deciding another group is so different from us they don't even count as human. How different ecosystems produce different aggressive behavior: pastoralists vs farmers vs hunter-gatherers. The amygdala, the part of the brain most linked to aggression and it's also the part of the brain that's most linked to fear. Aggression and social hierarchy -- being subordinate and aggression towards subordinates. PTSD in combat veterans, inability to sleep, tendency to see threat everywhere. No single gene for aggression. The frontal cortex regulation of socially appropriate behavior. Death Row inmates commonly have concussive damage to the frontal cortex. Individualistic versus collective culture. Increase in domestic violence after wars. Famous psychology experiments, Stanford's Prison Experiment and the Milgram order-following experiment, and how the behavior of the experimenters (Phil Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram) altered the outcomes of the experiments. Violence in movies, TV shows, and video games. Humans vs neanderthals, and cannibalism, or lack thereof. The Cold War and having somebody else fight your wars (disagreement with Steven Pinker). Cooperation vs aggression: survival of the fittest survived or the friendliest? (Thinking about Darwin).

I don't know who the interviewer is other than that she's a Russian in Israel.

Prof. Robert Sapolsky. Primate and human wars. What's behind our aggression? - A talk?

#primatology #aggression #war #ukraineconflict

mikhailmuzakmen@pod.geraspora.de

#politik #asien #multipolare-weltordnung #china #indien #russland #etc #mehrheitsbevölkerung #diplomatie #handel #taiwan #aggression #usa

Die USA versuchen, nicht aus Solidarität mit Taiwan, sondern in provokativer Absicht, Xi Jinping auf die militärische Lösung abzudrängen. Aus dem damit unweigerlich einhergehenden Reputationsdesaster (s. Modell Ukraine-Putin) ließe sich gewiss Kapital schlagen und einer Feindschaft mit China innenpolitisch Legitimation verschaffen (dabei waren es die USA, die mit ihrer seit den frühen 1970er Jahren betriebenen Ein-China-Politik Taiwan international degradiert haben) [...] China setzt sich als multilateraler Mediator in Szene, entwickelt durch Diplomatie viel Softpower und beginnt in Mittelasien vom Machtvakuum zu profitieren, das der Afghanistan-Ausstieg der USA vor einem Jahr hinterlassen hat. All das auf seine Brauchbarkeit hin zu testen, dazu lud der Gipfel von Samarkand wahrlich ein.

steelnomad@diasp.org

Ukrainian Pacifists: War is a crime against humanity

On April 17, 2022, Ukrainian pacifists adopted a statement reposted here...

Ukrainian Pacifist Movement is gravely concerned about the active burning of bridges for a #peaceful #resolution of #conflict between #Russia and #Ukraine on both sides and signals of intentions to continue the #bloodshed indefinitely to achieve some sovereign ambitions.

We condemn the #Russian decision to invade Ukraine on 24 February 2022, which led to a fatal escalation and thousands of deaths, reiterating our #condemnation of the reciprocal #violations of the #ceasefire envisaged in Minsk agreements by Russian and #Ukrainian combatants in #Donbas prior to the escalation of Russian #aggression.

We condemn the mutual labeling of parties to the conflict as Nazi-alike enemies and #war criminals, stuffed into legislation, reinforced by the official #propaganda of extreme and irreconcilable #hostility. We believe that the law should build #peace, not incite war; and #history should give us examples how people can return to peaceful life, not excuses for continuing the war. We insist that accountability for crimes must be established by an independent and competent judicial body in due process of law, in result of unbiased and impartial investigation, especially in the most serious crimes, such as #genocide. We emphasize that the tragic consequences of military brutality must not be used to incite #hatred and justify new #atrocities, on the contrary, such #tragedies should cool the fighting spirit and encourage a persistent search for the most bloodless ways to end the war.

We condemn military actions on both sides, the hostilities which harm civilians. We insist that all shooting should be stopped, all sides should honor the memory of killed people and, after due grief, calmly and honestly commit to peace talks.

We condemn statements on the Russian side about the intention to achieve certain goals by military means if they cannot be achieved through #negotiations.

We condemn statements on the Ukrainian side that continuation of peace talks depends on winning the best negotiating positions at the battlefield.

We condemn the unwillingness of both sides to cease fire during the peace talks.

We condemn the practice of forcing #civilians to conduct military service, to perform military tasks and to support the army against the will of peaceful people in Russia and Ukraine. We insist that such practices, especially during hostilities, grossly violate the principle of distinction between militaries and civilians in international #humanitarian law. Any forms of contempt for the human right to conscientious objection to military service are unacceptable.

We condemn all military support provided by Russia and NATO countries for militant radicals in Ukraine provoking further escalation of the military #conflict.

We call on all peace-loving people in Ukraine and around the world to remain peace-loving people in all circumstances and to help others to be peace-loving people, to collect and disseminate knowledge about peaceful and #nonviolent way of life, to tell the #truth that unites peace-loving people, to #resist evil and #injustice without #violence, and debunk myths about necessary, beneficial, inevitable, and just war. We don’t call for any particular action now to ensure that peace plans will not be targeted by hatred and attacks of #militarists, but we are confident that #pacifists of the world have a good imagination and experience of practical realization of their best dreams. Our actions should be guided by hope for a peaceful and happy future, and not by fears. Let our peace work bring closer the future from dreams.

War is a crime against humanity. Therefore, we are determined not to support any kind of war and to strive for the removal of all causes of war.”

#CODay #peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection