That feeling when you invade a “pushover” country for a 3 day operation and then they turn out to be a regional military power that fields advanced military equipment from partners pissed off about your invasion from all over the world.

Whoopsie!

The Russian war effort is existentially reliant on fighter-bomber launched glide bombs and while I don’t think Ukraine will begin instigating long range air-to-air engagements anytime soon the timeline established by these contracts puts any possible longterm reliance on glidebombs for precision guided frontline artillery/air support into serious doubt for Russia.

Good thing North Korea isn’t running out of good quality artillery shells to share! … oh wait

I know the pain you feel and I recommend watching Majority Report videos that make fun of Ben Shapiro as a balm for it.

Yeah I am not disputing that China is part of the problem.

It’s The Artillery Stupid could be a factually correct byline to a history of modern war textbook… this is fantastic news!

I mean “logistics” maybe fits better than artillery but the most scalable way to leverage and focus a logistics advantage is artillery.

I can’t stand all the conservative war hawks who are hellbent on going to war with China and divert any peripheral conversation around it to “China Big Bad and Hate Freedom” and yet those same people traffic in or at least support the defense tech circles selling China the vitally necessary technology to oppress its people. This is all a risk board game to these losers where we are automatically the good guys and the point is to profit off of fear to sell more war and I can’t stand it.

How many conservatives here on lemmy have wasted my time detailing how evil China is and yet not a FUCKING peep on this…

Evil lives in systems not countries and conservative warhawks traffic in the same evil China does as this article emphatically underscores.

I am stuck in the hellhole known as the US and I hate cars.

This article confirms my rage, thank you lol.

You know how Russia is relying so heavily on glide bombs?

With Russian air defense coverage turning to swiss cheese and Ukrainian flying bombs and cruise missiles becoming increasingly effective, the relevant question becomes how can Russia protect its fighter-bombers it is relying on so heavily to launch glide bombs? Not while they are in the air, while they are on their ground.

Distance is no comfort, Ukraine has proven that.

What I am saying is the benefits to Ukraine taking these out is strategic. Holes in the wall become the genesis point of devastating counterattacks, they are opportunities to exploit.

I mean, this article unlike the original leak seems like part of a military/government approved press release so idk, I feel like they probably thought that through before they ok’d it.

You have been programmed to treat all Israelis as a monolithic thing, AND THAT IS ANTISEMITISM.

1. I said all Israelis not a target of Genocide are to some gradational degree complicit in the Palestinian Genocide. This is not the same thing as seeing Israelis as a monolithic thing in any broader sense.

2. Israel is not the same concept as judaism, one is a country the other a religion, so no what you accuse me of saying would be a toxic generalization of a nation’s populace and conflation of it with a nation’s government, not antisemitism, neither of which I am doing for the record.

How many damn times does someone have to make point 2 to you before you stop talking and listen?

I understand there is nuance in protesting things the Israeli government is doing, and I acknowledge that they certainly leverage antisemitism as a victim shield…

That doesn’t apply to average Jews, or many Israelis

It applies to all of Israel, Israel is a genocidal Apartheid state. The evidence is horrifyingly overwhelming for this fact, even if you just go off of what Israeli officials publicly say on record.

There are gradations of complicity, but make no mistake the Palestinian Genocide is a stain on Israel, all of it.

If you live in Israel and you aren’t yourself the target of genocide, you are complicit to some degree. Sorry, that is how responsibility works…

It is the oldest trick in the book, make vulnerable people so afraid they become willing weapons against the even more vulnerable and the ruling class never even has to lift a finger to crush our dreams.

Well yes of course, I posted the article to pose the question, can we call out actual antisemitism if it is on the right and not the left bogeyman US media has been hyping up the illusion of and panicking about since the beginning of the Palestinian Genocide?

Honestly I don’t think the right is capable of doing it internally, they will evolve into actual scary as fuck antisemitism rather than have an internal reckoning especially around the topic of the Palestinian Genocide. They are going to choose “Blame the Jews!” as a scapegoat for having to reckon with the fact that they violently ignored that their government was directly complicit in the Genocide Of Palestinians. This is of course, exactly what Netanyahu was banking on to retain power. The only way Netanyahu and Israel can defend its own bigotry, apartheid and genocide is if the oposition is equally racist and scares Jews into hateful ideologies. There is no other way it can work, the truth is too shocking and ugly for any other kind of system of lies to hold up.

None of this is actually relevant to my question and it concerns me that you don’t seem to be able to grasp that.

Where has Hasan Piker been antisemitic? Where is your proof? <- That was the question if you forgot

NOTE, THE QUESTION IS NOT “WHEN HAS HASAN CRITICIZED ISRAEL?”.

It seems like you want to discuss your feelings here more than actually provide evidence for your accusation of someone harboring bigotry towards jewish people and honestly I don’t give a shit about your feelings in this established context.

If you are going to accuse someone of being antisemitic, publicly and in concert with toxic voices, than make sure you are ready to back up your words before you start wasting people’s time.

Stop trying to make this a conversation about Israeli politics, I am talking about antisemitism not what the best political strategy there is to take according to internal Israel politics for ending the Genocide Of Palestinians.

(on Gaza, which he painted as the only issue)

Right, Hasan Piker does hours of political streaming everyday, goes on different politics platforms and discusses issues and spends his entire time while doing so ONLY talking about Gaza. This is a lazy attack and it simply doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny at all.

Do you think that is good evidence?

Hasan is a twitch streamer, Israel and the IDF can stop the genocide any time because they are the ones doing it, all Hasan can do is make videos. Who really has the power here?

Edit One further point, your argument is that Hasan’s perspective isn’t helpful for a certain political outcome in a COUNTRY called ISRAEL. That is DIFFERENT than judaism. You are still conflating, even in your framing of this, the idea of judaism and Israel. It is not inherently antisemitic to believe in political tactics that you don’t think will work for an outcome in a specific NATION, even if your argument was correct it fails at a basic level to identify something genuinely antisemitic in Hasan Piker because there isn’t.

Hasan is an opportunist that is so blinded on a single issue he says antisemitic things without realizing the consequences of what he is saying

What are these antisemitic things Hasan has said specifically?

Please source links to these allegations if you are going to make them.

He has done more to alienate Jewish allies who actually have voices and stakes in getting Bibi out of power by allowing his community to impose purity tests on Jews for their reaction to everything following October 7,

What mechanism is Hasan and his community imposing with? Are you alleging something internal to their community or alleging that Hasan and his community have some external power they are nefariously using to impose with?

sigh

Calling Hasan Piker anti-semitic is absurd, you are a fool lol.

That imperiousness spilled over into Harris’s brusque and heartless response to protestors over Gaza, clearly heard when she responded to demonstrators at a rally, “You know what, if you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.” The point was clear: if you criticize me on this issue, you’re just asking for a Trump win. When she mentions genocide, it’s only twice, in reference to protestors, like the time they showed up at a Detroit rally as what she describes as a “noisy group” (well, yes, they were protesting!): “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We won’t vote for genocide.” She paints their opposition to her on the issue as “reckless,” and otherwise avoids mentioning them. They were there, and it was annoying, but what can you do? is the attitude.

Like most liberals and Democrats, Harris assumed Gaza would not matter to enough voters. She seems to have assumed that the issue would never have a reach beyond, perhaps, Dearborn, Michigan, which has a high concentration of Arab Americans. She speaks of pity for dead children, which is a standard liberal response, but stakes her political position close to Israel. She did not allow even the anodyne Uncommitted group of pro-Palestine voters to speak at the convention, but praises herself for having received praise from the Washington Post’s David Von Drehle for how she tackled the issue: “And, behold, she had her boat through the impossible strait.” Yet, she maintained complete silence on the matter of genocide. As with gay men and trans people, she banked on the idea that no one would care about insignificant numbers of people.

In 2016 Dearborn voted 63 percent for Clinton. In 2024, Harris got 36 percent, while Trump got 43 percent. Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib, a vocal critic of Israel and a staunch advocate for trans rights, won her seat by 63 percent.

spits on the Biden and Harris campaign

what an embarassment, on so many levels…

This is insane to me, listen to any mainstream leftist twitch streamer right now.

Like who? Be specific I am curious

Where? I have literally never encountered an anti-semitic leftist in the US, like ever in any context.

All the anti-semitic people I have ever met have been very rightwing.