There’s a rather poor propaganda puff piece, doing the rounds about heroic Ukrainian drone operators:

A Russian tank is on the move — changing direction and wheeling around. The men inside this room are trying to destroy it. Their constant banter — about girls and weapons — doesn’t seem to affect the focus with which they pursue the tank. One man shouts into the radio; Bereza growls into his phone…

A screen flashes with light. Then billowing smoke. The men whoop and cheer. I have just seen a successful strike. Dima grins. The atmosphere is electric but also strangely banal. The exclusively male cohort, the puerile jokes, the screens, the repeated invocation to “Get Ready!”. It’s like they are all playing a video game.

Great – war has become a video game for frat boys in cellars.

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Apparently an armada has been formed by the United States with the UK, the Netherlands and Germany all joining in to send their carriers and/or best warships to the South China Sea together.

What is with these American warmongers? Never saw a situation which didn’t call for war. Fortunately I’m not the only one thinking along these lines:

Seriously, for doing what? I live in Europe, so this may be me being an outsider, but please tell me what China has done, which hasn’t been done by the US by magnitudes worse?

China never dropped ‘the’ bomb on civilian populations, they haven’t been on perpetual warfare against nations which never attacked them, they haven’t had a war with anyone except their closest neighbors, they haven’t been living above their means at the expense of others (to the contrary rather), they don’t have tomahawk programs deployed all over the globe, they don’t have full spectrum dominance, they don’t provide support to islamists to fight proxy wars, they don’t scare countries across the globe into submission with the threat of invasion like the US does with Iran, and on and on…

Who brainwashed all these Americans into thinking China is the bad guy?

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