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Some more background on the German perspective: Merkel, ranked the most powerful woman 14 times (extreme contrast with Scholz...) https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-opens-up-on-ukraine-putin-and-her-legacy/a-62052345 Putin told her that the collapse of the Soviet Union had been "the worst...

Scholz continues to ignore calls from his own ministers. https://kyivindependent.com/taggeschau-scholz-against-ukraine-using-german-weapons-to-strike-russian-territory/ Speaking at an event in Berlin, Scholz said that Germany gave clear rules to Ukraine prohibiting the use of German weapons on...

50% not willing to fight sure sounds high. I don’t have numbers from other eu nations to compare to but it sure looks like sending an international allied force to neuter an evil state has been very effective. Now if only we’d do the same with Russia. Nukes or no nukes, can’t saddle up future...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nato-chief-china-support-russia-081403412.html 1 out of 4 EVs sold in Europe is this year is made in China... https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/china-russia-lethal-aid-ukraine-war-uk-defence-secretary-us If the world doesn't unite to end this war...

At first I thought climate thread but this seems suitable for the junk drawer https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/21/concerning-growth-in-average-penis-size-could-be-down-to-pollution-scientists-warn

"As far as I’m concerned, the ICJ can go to hell. It is long past time to stand up to these so-called international justice organizations associated with the UN."- Lindsey Graham. Best accent to say 'go to hell' though. Gantz speaks to Blinken after ICJ ruling, says Rafah operations will...

Canada: “Canadian deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, reacting to the International Court of Justice’s order to Israel to halt an assault on Rafah, on Friday said she expected all parties to follow international law.” Belgium: “The ICJ orders Israel to stop its military offensive in Rafah...

About a month ago they were negotiating a cease fire deal including the release of 40 of hostages. Problem was, Hamas couldn’t find enough ‘living’ hostages that matched the criteria. Most are IDF soldiers, which I think they’ll be even more reluctant to release those...

I think any dead hostages, especially civilian, are above all on Hamas but yeah if you don't know where they are you can't know if the bombs you drop might hit some hostages too. Shows what a horrible situation the hostages and their family members and friends are in. Hamas still holds a key to...

I watched an interview with Irish PM and he says more nations will recognize Palestine in the upcoming weeks. Malta said they want it but timing is bad, and France said something similar, stressing this is not the moment. Irish PM: “there’s never a wrong time to do the right thing”. I ran...

Seems pretty certain, given their responses, they will not comply. I think the question is will this lead to another vote in the UN security council and will US veto it. I think so, but this is an intermediate order, the case against Israel is still going, and there will be more votes in the...

I’m probably going to vote for someone from the Renew group, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renew_Europe, the one that is kicking out our main leading (neo-)liberal party for working with far-right and ending the cordon sanitaire. They include Volt, which would fall in the “amateurs“ category...

EU parliament elections next month, where the parties are mostly coalitions of national parties. The (far-)right populists alliance ID, which includes Wilder’s PVV, France‘s Le Pen‘s party and several others, just kicked out AfD, Germany’s still rising far-right party, for being too nazi...

Wanted to know if this is indeed a result from South Africa's case (demanding Israel stop a genocide in Gaza) but that's a different court. South Africa went to the ICJ, International Court of Justice (or World court, UN highest court), which handles disputes between nations, often issues...

80 years after WW2 and not only are they no longer aggressive, only 30% of the Germans would be willing to pick up arms to fight to defend their country against a direct attack by Russia, 50% would not fight at all. I bet that percentage is higher in the east...

https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/23/dutch-foreign-minister-wants-eu-let-ukraine-fire-supplied-weapons-russian-targets She’s on her way out, about a month to go, so not for show or votes or w/e. New government, messed up coalition as it is, already agreed NL will continue financial, political, moral...

Always welcome this man on my TV: The other horse's mouth: (Jake Paul's interview with Netanyahu) https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/21/world/video/one-on-one-interview-with-israeli-pm-netanyahu "You should know this, the prices of food in Gaza dropped by 80%". -Netanyahu Dodging questions and...

It’s a girl… Has to be original haze x silver haze, and looks mostly like original haze. The color, the leaves, the node spacing, I love it. Unfortunately, I probably won’t have time to finish flowering this one, got a vacation planned and it will go on at least a month if not more longer...

Though not quite as hypocrite as Putin calling for peace, I had similar thoughts regarding South Africa. Though we all got skeletons... ("Apartheid" is a Dutch word...), I think by recognizing those, which they do, they have a right to speak. Because of that history they recognize the...

Some more international responses: “We haven’t seen such a show of hypocrisy and hatred of Jews like that of the Hague Tribunal since Nazi propaganda,” Smotrich [finance minister Israel] said on X. Really? Hatred of Jews? Like, all of them? :roll: I also see several nation’s leaders argue...