#conflicts

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

And in the last year they [the #IDF] acted if they are trained #sadist, and they're getting a kick out of it, in a way that I haven't seen other #soldiers in other #conflicts doing. And that is probably the worst thing that can happen to a professional #army. But this is not a professional army, it's a democratic army. It's an army of the people and the people are #racist, #hateful, they are Jewish supremacist, which on the whole means white supremacist. And the way that #apartheid has trained them means that they have no compunction about #killing any number of people and any kind of non-combatant is fine.

--- Haim Bresheeth, in an interview with Aaron Mate and Katie Halper

Haim Bresheeth was recently arrested in the UK for speech. He's been an intelligence officer in the IDF, a professor and a historian. His website

#HaimBresheeth #ZionistEntity

brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch

Is that so?
The Rothschilds manage Ukraine's debt

The Rothschilds took part in negotiations on Ukrainian debt in Paris in July

#Reuters: The #Rothschild clan helped reach an agreement with #Ukraine's private #creditors.
Ukraine is a small, concrete example of how certain financial hordes are monopolising countries that have now been privatised like commodities and dragged into #conflicts, then into #debt #slavery for the benefit of non-political clans eager to move on to the creation of a world state and the total enslavement of man, and even better of course of trans-man, to vulgar financial science, which is already well advanced.

If politics were eventually to re-establish itself in the world (the return of the human being and the end of the planet of the apes) to the detriment of finance, which is merely a tool, it goes without saying that all the investments made in Ukraine would at least in part revert to the Russian Federation, which is not going to stop its offensive against the Ukropithecans in Ukraine any time soon, i.e. the people of Ukraine who have been effectively trained as #Nazis by the West to #kill Russians, which is what they really are most of the time, even in their local dialect.

from a French post

Does ‘the people in Ukraine who were actually trained by the West to be #Nazis to kill #Russians’ mean that they are basically trying to kill their own people?

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

People calling for a halt to arms sales are gonna run into THIS snag.

As long as non-Hamas entities are attacking Israel, the assertion that Israel has a right to defend itself remains legit. Israel's use of arms, only partially so--ergo loophole.


Europe Says - 2024-08-12 21:51:07 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1399830/ Israeli Apache intercepts a drone. Israel-Lebanon border. #CombatFootage #Conflicts
Israeli Apache intercepts a drone. Israel-Lebanon border.

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Now that their top military commander has been fired, perhaps we'll see increased improvement of the Ukrainian position.


Europe Says - 2024-02-03 23:23:06 GMT

https://www.europesays.com/1036948/ Ukraine’s SBU unit ‘A’ showing a week’s work. Destroying 11 tanks, 28 armoured vehicles, 24 artillery pieces, 2 Air defence systems, 6 EW jamming systems, 73 regular cars/transport vehicles & recon systems #CombatFootage #Conflicts
Ukraine's SBU unit 'A' showing a week's work. Destroying 11 tanks, 28 armoured vehicles, 24 artillery pieces, 2 Air defence systems, 6 EW jamming systems, 73 regular cars/transport vehicles & recon systems

jaywink@jasonrobinson.me

2023 was most a really nice year, personally. Obviously being extremely privileged, living in a country which isn't at war, isn't really suffering from #climatechange (yet) and isn't a total police state (yet, we're going that way). I made new social connections, kept old ones alive and dug deeper into the wonderful world of #polyamory (😘's to my darlings). I had many wonderful moments with my kids, who all stayed healthy and are growing up to be fantastic, if not sometimes annoying, little human beings. I traveled, visiting Brussels for FOSDEM + friends and then Prague, all by train, and then a family trip to the UK by plane. I went to awesome #gigs, the highlights being Jinjer, Gojira (twice!), Trivium, Ignea, Huora, Vimma, Infected Rain, 22-Pistepirkko, Soilwork and many others. I almost broke my leg in a moshpit 🤘. I went on more dates than I can remember. I attended many marches, against the populist right wing government Finns decided to vote in, but also to demand more climate action. I also attended various XR actions, though not as many as I would have liked. I survived three rounds of layoffs.

But most of all, the year was about #cycling. I managed to log 182 activities into Strava for a total of 3227km, which is more than 2022 and 2021 combined (1503km and 1280km, respectively). I made my first 100km+ day ride by visiting Porvoo and tested out some bikepacking gear during rides in Tallinn and Tampere. I also started planning my first proper multi-week #bikepacking trip in central Europe for May 2024.

Still, seeing the year as positive does require forgetting a lot of things that are not personal. Like the utter failure of #humanity to converge on climate action. Personally, I've already lost hope. We're just going to ride over that cliff. How big the drop is just depends on what we do to mitigate it. Currently we're not doing much, and the direction isn't necessarily going to improve. With right wing governments on the rise, climate action just isn't going to be a priority. And at least in the democratic countries, you can't go blaming "the government for not doing anything" when it's the voters who are gullible fools, voting populist right wing parties for very very selfish reasons. We, the citizens of these countries, are responsible for change not happening. Maybe this crisis is just too big for our species to handle.

2023 was also the most violent year in a long time, with more #conflicts globally than we have had since a long time. While the world should be converging on the big issues, we're doing what humanity knows best - building borders based on imaginary nationalist ideas and smashing each other to pieces.

Can we, as a species, improve in 2024? That remains to be seen.

anonymiss@despora.de
steelnomad@diasp.org

​Militarism and the police: how our streets became battlefields

When faced with #conflict, human beings respond in various ways and often choose #solutions that avoid #violence. We are very good at #negotiating, #communicating, #cooperating, as well as, of course, submitting to those more #powerful than us. Violence in our societies is pervasive; it is experienced every day by victims of #crime, domestic and more. But the systemic way #armies and #militarized #police units plan and prepare for the use of overwhelming violence is specific and unique.

A key example of militarized #policing is the #suppression of #protest and #dissent. Social movements come into conflict with the #authorities via lobbying, #protests or direct actions. Authorities respond to these #conflicts in various ways, sometimes reaching for militarized options. This violence is planned, trained for, repeatedly rehearsed and often delivered in a calculated way that aims to disorientate, overwhelm or eliminate the perceived enemy or threat.

Through the lens of #militarism, conflict stops being something that drives #change and #transformation; it becomes a #threat to be neutralized and the individuals and groups driving conflict become enemies akin to a foreign invading #army. Violence of this nature relies on its perpetrators’ #obedience to orders, the #dehumanization of its victims, and a heightened perception of threat.

The experiences of the democracy movement in #HongKong serve as one particularly extreme example. While in Hong Kong these tactics have been deployed by an #authoritarian #government, we have seen similar examples of police violence leveled against #activists across the world — in Chile, France, Germany, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, South Korea and the US, to name but a few.

#peace #propeace #HumanRights