Interesting fact: lemmings don’t actually jump off cliffs. That was just staged for a television programme.
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Would be the very definition of a chain reaction of events.
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Oh for a piece of Sikim… a wee nibble perchance?
BBC News - Premier League: China’s rights holder will not show games over Ukraine support
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What can I suggest? Probably this, which has already been posted:
Misses Elena Osipova (an artist), understands the situation perfectly, and comes across crystal clear: ‘Soldiers, lay down the arms, and you’ll be the true heroes.’ Absolutely spot on, and there is not much more to add. The reference to Munch’s ‘The Cry’ expresses the horror of modern men and women in front of all the violence. Again, spot on.
From an Ukrainian perspective, if people take a gun and fight, they’ll most probably be taken down, and their country obliterated. That’s what happens as we speak. The occupant will then take pretext of their resistance to exert more violence, and you’ll have another Iraq or Syria for a decade or two.
From a Russian perspective, if as a soldier, you obey to these insane orders, you might end up killed, wounded, most probably traumatized for life, and face a never-ending nightmare.
From both perspectives, taking a gun and fight is a lose-lose situation. No-one will win from this in the long term, only the gun merchants.
Hence the message to both sides: lay down your guns ffs.
So, I’d really suggest pacific resistance against the warmongers and war merchants in all countries. It’s the hardest of all, and it takes the most courage, as the tyrants and warmongers won’t be pleased. But the potential reward is probably the biggest.
A thought today for Ms Osipova, a true heroe. May she be freed soon again, fingers crossed.
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The only operational unit has been destroyed.
It was a technological and avionic marvel to which Russia can claim credit and they must have been proud of.
Oh really? 
And there I was, thinking that we share our collective suicidal tendencies with at least one other animal species… 
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They already have.
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Completely staged for a Disney film that built off older folktales. The footage of them hurling themselves into the sea was filmed in Alberta, over a thousand km from the sea, and they had been imported from Norway.
So it is just us
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WTH is a surveillance mortar?
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That’s what the human species should do, of course. But we don’t live in that world, we live in this one where those with bigger guns and bigger armies attack those who don’t have as many or as much or those who don’t have powerful allies with big armies backing them up. This has been true throughout human history and as much as we think that’s in the past, it’s really not. As long as the tendency and opportunity for violent conquest is there, there will always be violent conquest. Arms dealers and manufacturers may be odious but they’re not the root cause of this, human nature is as much as those of us without that tendency choose to think it doesn’t exist and can be controlled. At the end of the day, some people just want to see their own ends and desires met and will use force to take it.
When has appeasement and concessions of territory ever worked to control a dictator or regime from taking or wanting more. We are kidding ourselves to think it can be done. The lessons of history are just not being learned and it’s easier to call it unfeasible when the jets aren’t flying over our heads, the bombs not dropping on our neighborhoods or the armour rolling past our windows.
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I politely disagree with this. They are the root cause imho, and people like Putin, Assad, JW Bush at the time and many others before and since then aren’t much more than their servants. Look up history, look up how much people like Zaharoff for instance were involved in creating a favourable environment for the start of WW1. Krupp industries massively financed and favoured the access to power of Hitler.
It’s always the same story again. Warmongers, the lot of them. They rely on wars to make their dirty, lucrative business, they need them like we need air to breathe.
The only answer to this for us normal people, from all countries, is laying down arms and refusing to use them. There is no other possible way which doesn’t lead to even more suffering and destruction. We haven’t much power compared to the warmongers, but we definitely have control over that bit. As said, it requires a lot of courage to be fair.
Edit: that’s why I had nothing but full admiration for the Ukrainians who were stopping tank convoys the other day, with nothing but their courage. Admirable, and much more efficient imo than taking a gun, firing it and then being obliterated the next minute.
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