Oh yeah, any NATO member who does not limit the outflow of critical military information to China should be treated as a pariah by other member states, it is a grave security risk.

He’s such an obviously stupid guy.
He could’ve easily manufactured propaganda to sell this this war to his own base (some dumb shit about freedom and stuff like that) and they would’ve lapped it all up like all the shit before, but he’s just too dumb to even do that.
He might’ve even be able to get some democrats on his side with the right messaging, but he’s just dumb as fuck.

From his mouth to God’s ears

God, I’m so sick and tired of all the anglo mass-media slop and their disgustingly manipulative and clickbaity titles.
I cannot wait for the day when this shit gets banned.

Its such a pity that Iranians don’t get peace from their Islamist oppressors not even in western countries.

It’s too quick an escalation.

I’m sorry? They’re okay with bombing US bases and kill soldiers, but cyber attacks against government websites is one step too far? They’re bombing shit left and right but hacking some Usaian company is too much?

Sorry, that really doesn’t track.

A more feasible explanation would be that this is the best they can do right now. I really don’t see any reason why they would hold back.

Trump is 100000000000000% more likely to die from eating yet another McBurger in the next 24hrs than he’s to be assassinated by the Islamic Regime from now to the end of his natural lifespan.
Also, to people who’d view that as a positive because hurr durr Trump (I get it): that would lead to President Vance with a mandate to wage a war of revenge. The whole political discussion would suddenly shift from all the damage that Trump has done to USA, to destroying Iran, with a high possibility of giving more strength to republicans.

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A whole lot of slop when the article should’ve started from the get go with this point here

According to the Times, Israeli officials estimate that they have destroyed 50 percent of Iran’s missile launchers.

If that number is remotely true, then its an insane number.
Maybe Israel is lying, wouldn’t be the first time. Let’s halve it to 25%. Even with that number, removing 25% of Iran’s missile launch capabilities in a couple of days is fucking crazy.

And its that kind of thing that completely changes the military calculations. Sure, they’re a lot more expensive, but if you fuck up your enemy’s capability to launch missiles, they’re very much worth it.
And missile launchers cannot be built at the same fast rate, it goes without saying.

Its things like these that make me (extra) distrustful of western media. Do an actual genuine effort at estimating capabilities and stop it with the clickbaity slop, I’m tired.

There are language schools, but I can’t find any details about full education being available in a minority langauge.

I mean… Belgium literally has three different full-fledged education systems in flemish, french and german; all of them with their own curricula, schools, universities, etc.

Due to their similar language they are mostly bilingual and can relatively easily understand each other.

This is just flat out wrong??? Finnish and swedish are not similar languages and they’re not mutually understandable. A finnish speaker cannot understand a swedish speaker. Swedish is a germanic language, Finnish is blood uralic, its not even part of the indo-european family. Perkele, mita vittua?!
Did you just go “oh, they’re both in the north, they sound similar to me sooooooooooooooo”

Spanish is the only official language in Spain, only autonomous regions are allowed to have their own official languages per the constitution.

By definition its not the ONLY official language if areas in the country have extra official languages.
The very constitution of the country allows for co-official languages.

And overall it makes sense that these minority-language schools are present only in particular regions. Why would you want to have schools for language X when there’s not a consistent minority that speaks language X in that area in the first place? Complete waste of resources.
And naturally you can’t have schools for every minority, especially with modern-day migration, but its not economically feasible to have a school where only 3 kids can attend.
If would’ve just said that not every minority in Europe gets its school, I would’ve agreed. That much is clear. But that is a very different point from the one initially made.
The dominant model in Europe is certainly not one similar to the one China is pursuing, in fact I’d argue that there’s few EU member states that come close to that. And the ones that spring to mind are the Baltics - Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia - which is an entirely different bag of chips and a whole conversation to be had about how right or wrong they are to pursue something like that in their present geopolitical context.

and Finnish have the same status as Swedish in Finland due to language similarities

Please, stop saying that. The two languages are not similar. That’s not the reason for their status. Its because Swedish imperialism. They occupied Finland for centuries. To help you better understand, percentage-wise the similarity between Swedish and Finnish is CLOSE TO 0% (ZERO)

There is a strong push to encourage foreign languages as secondary

Strong push? I don’t agree with this framing. It makes it seem like its just beginning, like only now we’re moving in that direction. When the reality is that its completely normalized across most if not all EU member states.
Teaching at least one foreign language is a long-term standard of the education system of EU states.

In 2023, 89% of pupils in upper secondary education in the EU were learning English as a foreign language: this share was 96% in general programmes and 80% in vocational programmes.

That’s already how it works in most (might be all) of Europe.

What Europe are you talking about??? Because its definitely not in the Europe I’m in.
Minority people are very much entitled and do use their native language in schools and universities.

Belgium has dutch, french and german as its official langauges, each region teachin in the region’s langauge. Minority language communities have their own full school systems. Finland’s nationa languages are finnish and swedish; swedish-natives have the legal right to FULL education in their native tongue. There’s Swedish-langauge schools all over the country. Spain - basque, catalan, galician. Similar shit. Switzerland - german, french, italian and romansh - all national languages. Even the french, who go crazy about their language shit, still have breton and basque language schools. Romania, hungarians being the largest minority, there’s lots of hungarian-focused schools. German as well. Ukrainian, serbian, slovak, turkish. Uk - welsh, gaelic, and irish. Sweden - sami, finnish, romani and yiddish. Italy - german, french and slovenian.

I could talk all day. Not only is the opposite the reality about Europe, its definitely how it should be and its one of the things that Europe and the EU do right.

No, Israel is not doing a genocide in Iran. That is a silly thing to say and you have no proof at all for your genocide claim. And no, civilian casualties don’t count as genocide. Both Israel and USA have VERY OBVIOUSLY aimed their attacks at institutions of the terrorist occupation.

And no, I’m not asking you to support Iranians who live in the west, where did I say that? I’m asking you to support Iranians living in Iran under the islamist occupation.

I don’t think there’s gonna be enough interest for someone to record and torrent it, tbh

You think christian extremists and jewish extremists are going to save people from islamist extremists?

No, I don’t think so at all. AND YET, this is literally all the Iranians have right now. This is it. There’s no Usaian leftists coming to help them. No Germany, no Spain, no France, no EU, no Cuba, no Australia, no Russia, no China, no country on earth and absolutely no one at all except the lunatics currently in charge of USA and Israel. How fucked is that.

It continues to astonish me how much westerners seems to just not give a flying fuck about these people and their opinions. In the end, the western leftists are not so radically different than their right wing counter parts, just a different side of the same shitty coin.
I sure as hell am glad our anti-communist revolution happened when internet wasn’t a thing, otherwise I’d no doubt see such kind hearted people simp for our mass-murderous leadership.

The most usaian thing I’ve seen in a while. Capitalizing over the people’s unhappiness with the healthcare system by making it all a show so people can come, see it and leave thinking they’ve done something productive or are “fighting the system” or some other stuff. 🙄

I’ll pray you won’t be put in their shoes where the only thing remotely resembling some sort of action against the islamist occupation is fucking USA and Israel.

Who wouldn’t, in their place?

Alive? Maybe so. Well? I wouldn’t say that.

We need to forbid American social media at national or EU level