Don’t fret it, happens to everyone. And the rapidly changing pace of the news here makes it all the more likely.
Yeah, the reporting I have seen says the ceasefire wasn't fully followed at first, but has been holding since.
When they try to negotiate for food or economic assistance, it gets framed as extortion
When one threatens death and destruction in exchange for money and goods, one does frame that as extortion, yes.
Why the hell would you want Iran to have nukes? Just because Israel and/or US bad, doesn't mean Iran is good. Far, far from it.
consistently want to be left alone to do their thing
They consistently want to extract economic and food assistance from other countries via threatening all kinds of shit. But otherwise, yes.
It was attempted many times by South Korea, by the US, and by others to get North Korea to trash their nuclear program. It didn't work.
The world learned if a country isn't giving up their nuclear program, even with large incentives to do so, one cannot just hope things change in the future. That baseless hope is how we got a nuclear armed North Korea. The world learned, and a different strategy is being taken with Iran.
Do they want to lose half their navy in a day, again?
For those who want to watch a great animated video on the event: Operation Praying Mantis
Iran Strikes Back
The international response would be much stronger if Iran did something like that. Much like chemical weapons, actually employing such tools brings on unwanted responses.
Lots of updates, videos, and pictures in the article.
No. But much like an erratic hobo with an unfolded knife, I have zero desire to allow them the ability to attack anybody.
The Baltics are part of NATO because they didn't want to be part of the failed Soviet Union or the modern Russian Federation. And with Russia invading Ukraine, twice now, it isn't very hard to see why.
Get fucked Russia.
The ship floating is not the surprising part. It’s the fact seawater was into everything.
Dip your computer into the sea for a few weeks, it isn’t going to be happy about it.
lots of shit behind paywalls :|
TWZ has some excellent coverage of the event with nary a paywall.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/what-we-know-about-ukraines-mass-drone-assault-on-russian-bombers
Damn that is weird.
Any place which believes it can legitimize itself by becoming an American military base is fake and objectively worse.
What are you talking about? Somaliland doesn't have any US military bases. Somalia certainly does though at Baledogle Airfield.
Should we recognize Somaliland and not Somalia since Somalia has a US military base, unlike Somaliland?
Somalia failed due to a number of factors: Starting with a coup that created the socialist Somali Democratic Republic which then launched a failed invasion of Ethiopia. Ethiopian resistance, mass migration caused by the invasion, poorly distributed food aid, and harsh government crackdowns led to a civil war the country has yet to recover from. UN and US interventions in the civil war unfortunately didn't solve the problem either.
Eventually, out of this civil war emerged two countries: Somaliland and Somalia. One of these is half-way functioning democracy today and is an obvious choice to recognize and stabilize the region. The alternative is to force Somaliland to fail and have that region fall back into civil war too.
I’ll take Somaliland over Somalia any day. At least one of those governments is halfway functional.