I mean context is always important. Pretty sure any murder investigation goes into the motivation of the person who killed the victims.
I think it's important to dispel the notion that the occupation of a neighboring country is somehow an act of protection, when it's pretty obvious that it's sparked a lot of provocation.
I mean also.....
"In his final post on social media hours before the attack, Lischinsky had shared a post from the Israeli ambassador, Amir Weissbrod, accusing UN officials of engaging in “blood libel” over claims that 14,000 children faced starvation in Gaza."
Not saying they deserved any violence, but even once moderate Israelis have been driven pretty far right in the last couple years. Accusations of blood libel while the state is actively starving children doesn't exactly seem to be promoting any positive dialogue.
Gotta feed your hounds if you want to sic your attack dogs on someone. At this point there is going to be some sort of judicial or legislative confrontation whether it be meek or consequential. Midterms will be here sooner or later and he needs his constituents to feel like they are being attacked, he needs to feel like they need him to defend their ways of life.
Putain has zero intention of ending this without the full and complete subjugation of Ukraine.
Even if Russia subjugated the entirety of Ukraine, they still couldn't afford to stop. They've completely transitioned to a war time economy and have isolated all foreign capital.
If Putin decides to end the campaign in Ukraine, it would just mean that they're about to invade somewhere like Slovenia. They're economy couldn't handle the transition into a regular economy without imploding.
Haha, no it's good for me. English wasn't my first language, so I welcome the reinforcement.
The mistake is assuming that Orban was ever anything but a populist. Orban never really changed, what changed was the state of populism in central Europe.
Basically, in the 90's liberal reform was popularized following the implosion of the Soviet Union. However, there was a conservative backlash following the "shock therapy" doctrine the IMF took when reforming the former Soviet block.
Conservative backlash in this case being styled after late Soviet socialism. Which was conservative in social mores, and in nationalist intent, but left leaning in economically. The older more impoverished population wanted to go back to the days before the collapse and before the implementation of shock therapy.
Orban has almost always riden the sentiment of populism whether that be liberalism or the sentiment of the Soviet era. The lone time he abandoned populism was in the early 00's where he tried to align himself with the middle class, which cost him the election. Since then he has doubled down on his populist agenda.
That is the problem with transitioning your government into a war time economy, once it starts sustaining itself it's nearly impossible to decouple from without initiating a huge recession.
It's the reason Putin is treating peace negotiations as a joke, there is no economic incentive for peace. Most foreign capital left Russia after the war in Georgia in 08, and the rest left or were gobbled up by the state after the war in Ukraine.
If the Russian government doesn't sustain a war in Ukraine or start another war relatively soon their economy will soon spiral out of control. The Guns vs Butter model is still a bitch to deal with, and Russia as a nation throughout history seems to be incapable of learning that particular lesson.
Surely attacking the musical embodiment of the working class in New Jersey will be good for the conservatives.....right?
I feel like if he wanted Jersey to file articles of succession all he would have to do at this point is ban pork rolls.
Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory on the suspicion that it was being used to manufacture bioweapons
Ahh, yeah definitely a shitty thing to do. I don't know if war crime is the best descriptor, more of a crime against humanity imo.
but one way he did this is bombing civilian targets.
This article is atrociously biased, to the point where it's blatantly ahistorical. The attempt to "both sides" the war crimes committed by the Serbs and Bosniaks is just immoral. It would be the equivalent of equating war crimes committed by the Palestinians with the genocidal reaction of Israel.
To my knowledge there was no intentional targeting of civilians in Kosovo, there was a refugee column that was mistakenly bombed, which NATO took responsibility for .
I don't really know much about this publisher, but I would be wary of any "leftist" publisher who back articles originally written for a libertarian rag.
The problem is that this is how fascism ferments, it's not about planning, it's about taking action. So what if it doesn't pass through the courts? For trump and his supporters that's just evidence that the courts are against him. That the courts are not equipped to deal with today's problems. That we don't need courts, we just need to give someone enough power to get the job done.
Eh, I mean it kinda does. They're complaining about having to 91k dollars of tax for nearly 4 million dollars of equity. They could just get a tax free loan guaranteed by their equity and receive millions to live off for the rest of their lives, paying the loan back when they sell.
They just want to have their cake and eat it. They like the free equity, they just don't want to pay the taxes associated with it.
I mean, I don't think you get to decide what the scope of the context is.
For this not to be contextual you would have to claim that the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians had nothing to do with the gunman's motive. I think that would be hard to claim considering that the murders were politically motivated, considering that the two victims were diplomats.
I think people have gotten a little too comfortable with claiming anything that shares a sentence structure with a logical fallacy to be a logical fallacy. You have to remember that logical fallacies have to be illogical in the first place. It's not illogical to assume these two claims are associated.
Whataboutism have to equivocate two different scenarios that aren't logically associated with the events in the originating claim.