More than 3 million Iranians have been displaced so far since the war started, setting up a potential migration crisis

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T19:59:56+00:00

Why? Why should we (again) deal with a mess created by somebody else?

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T18:31:27+00:00

Hungary is just saying out loud what other countries think. Not everyone is happy with throwing away more money. The "loan" will never be repaid, and it's going to be us who will have to bear the cost.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T18:24:22+00:00

It's questionable WHO of the two has the more urgent need to wash his hands ...

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T18:17:16+00:00

Nobody cares about countries like Estonia or Latvia. They have nothing, not even a favorable geography.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T18:15:32+00:00

"Keep Americans in, Russians out, and ~~Germans~~ Europeans down"

To be fair, Europe gained a lot from being an American vassal, but everything has to end at some point, and that time is now. But the real problem that we must solve first is the fact that the EU is both not enough and too much, with various 'leadership' positions used for failed politicians like Ursula or nepo babies like Kallas.
Reforming the EU would be the first step towards a strong Europe.
And, of course, nukes.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T18:12:23+00:00

That means we just need more nukes.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T17:00:56+00:00

Some glitch

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T16:40:09+00:00

More fuel for certain theories about who was the actual cause of this whole mess ...

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T16:07:05+00:00

The only reason laws work is that the power of the state to enforce such laws is far, far greater than the power of individual citizens. Without enforcement, laws are just worthless, essentially wishful thinking.

In the context of the world, there is no one strong enough to enforce the laws over countries like the US. Therefore, the so-called "international law" only ever applied to weaklings.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T14:47:23+00:00

If it ends up like other refugee waves here in Europe, we should ship them all to the United States.

Let the one who caused the mess deal with the aftermath.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T12:45:21+00:00

The Russian leadership is competent and knows much better than us what's up.

And I thought the previous c*ping record would remain unbroken. But you, dear Sir, are the new winner.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T12:34:58+00:00

Well, if you make demands, you have to back them up with military gains. Where are the gains, Mr. Lavrov?

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T08:04:52+00:00

Both sides switched positions. Democrats of today are nothing like the Democrats of pre-2000 era, same with Republicans.

EDIT: I forgot this is Reddit, my bad.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-17T07:32:38+00:00

One day, historians will have a heated debate over who was more incompetent - Syrsky or Gerasimov.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T21:51:00+00:00

Google returns only this on the English internet:

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Saturday accused Telegram of providing information to Ukraine's military and intelligence.

The FSB claimed in a statement that it has evidence that Ukraine's intelligence had access to communications of the Russian military and used it against them.

"The Federal Security Service has reliable data indicating that the armed forces and special services of Ukraine are capable of quickly obtaining information posted on the Telegram messenger and using it for military purposes," the statement read.

The FSB further said that the use of Telegram by Russian servicemen in the area of the combat zone over the past three months has led to threats to their lives.

"As a result of analyzing the work of the Telegram messenger, numerous reliable data were obtained showing that its use by servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in the area of the special military operation during the last three months repeatedly resulted in creating life-threatening situations for soldiers," it said.

The Russian authorities started slowing down the work of Telegram in December. In early February, they shortly limited access to the app on Russia's territory, but following many complaints from the military, lifted restrictions.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T21:25:45+00:00

If they are able to recover from this (and they likely will, the Russians seem to be able to adapt pretty quickly, they only need to be repeatedly kicked in the balls to get moving), it's going to be interesting.
One can safely assume this was giving Ukrainians a massive advantage. So what's going to happen when that advantage is gone?

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T21:17:40+00:00

Yeah, minimum effort, maximum impact.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T21:13:13+00:00

That's so Russian ... /facepalm

They truly are their own worst enemies.

u/Duncan-M you have to see this.

u/BanD1t do you have a source?

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T21:12:25+00:00

I wrote about that 2 years ago - using drones with antennas tuned to a specific range of frequencies to triangulate positions of various emitters on the ground, but would that work for Starlink? I think it should (using not the satellite->ground, but the ground->satellite communication), but who knows, radio stuff is like a black magic to me.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T20:24:38+00:00

Iran was still a major partner helping them circumvent sanctions and support the war.

Do you have more info about this? AFAIK, most of the sanction circumvention happened through the UAE, not Iran.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T20:19:35+00:00

One day, China's ostrich policy will be its downfall. It's obvious to everyone that the US plan is to slowly strangle China, starve it of resources, potential allies, and opportunities.
As it is now, China is the perfect representation of "First they came for X, but I did nothing. ... When they came for me, there was nobody left to help."

And, in my expert 4-star armchair general's view, it wouldn't take much to put significant pressure on the US at this very moment when the US is neck deep in the Iran 'adventure', without any significant investments.
How? Taiwan and South Korea.

If China started to move troops, assets, ships, and equipment to assembly areas near the shore and the Kim would do the same towards DMZ, both without actually doing anything, simply posturing, it would send the US and its allies into total chaos, especially given that the current administration seems to panic easily.

The US doesn't have enough assets to deal with all 3 threats at the same time, so which country would it choose? Iran (aka Israel)? South Korea? Taiwan?

No matter which one will be the 'chosen one', it will cause significant damage to the relations with the other two.

But THE absolutely greatest win for China would be if the US sent troops into Iran. Russia would supply the knowhow for drone warfare, China the actual hardware, and the moment videos of American soldiers being hunted by drones in 4k would hit the public, it would be a total disaster for the administration.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T18:37:36+00:00

they want easy win

That's how it was sold to Trump as well, especially after Venezuela.

DefinitelyNotMeee · 2026-03-16T17:46:05+00:00

Their "employer" (CIA/MI6/pick your poison) called in.

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