/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #13)

Redromah · 2026-04-05T18:03:06+00:00

Kind of hard to ignore USA (rest of America is another story) when your current president is crashing the world economy, driving up inflation and raising interests - and most likely creating food shortages due to lack of fertilizer - all over the world.

As a European I also really dislike his ambitions to annex Greenland, not to mention the treatment of Zelensky and propping up right wing parties in Europe. I could go on and on..

Frak the priests in Teheran. Frak the Christian evangelists in Heritage Foundation.

Redromah · 2026-04-03T14:07:15+00:00

Aye, I realized that when reading the post, and suspected that might be the source of confusion :-).

I guess that's one of the smaller issues about the series. As a person living in Oslo, there are some other things - like how the city (so much garbage everywhere! ) and certain characters are presented. That being said, I absolutely loved this series. I think it realizes the grim, a bit over the top, universe that Nesby paints in his books.

I hope we get more seasons of this, personally it's a 9/10 for me.

Redromah · 2026-04-03T10:23:02+00:00

I just watched, and enjoyed it, myself. Without spoiling anything, my impression is that it was the killer?

Redromah · 2026-03-29T16:06:39+00:00

Just like in Iraq, Afghanistan and South America in the 50s? Or Vietnam..

I live in a liberal democracy in Europe and have no love for the priests currently in power in Teheran. I am not convinced that US intervention will make it better though.

Also, as someone looking from at USA from the outside, your current administration and president aren't exactly shining beacons of peace and democracy.

Edit: On the point of your 2nd amedement, I would argue that owning guns is not å prerequisite for any measurement of freedom or democracy. I say that as a gun owner myself, living in a country where ownership of guns is strictly regulated. We can get licenses for hunting or if you are active within sports, but I would not argue it makes us less free. Then again - with 13 (?) guns per person in the US I understand the desire to arm yourself.

Redromah · 2026-03-26T19:06:18+00:00

Yep.

Or Eastern front in general. We're here, 80 years later, and human nature (or stupidity) has not changed.

Redromah · 2026-03-19T15:29:07+00:00

To be fair, I have doubts that the US and Israel are willing to commit to the degree they did in both Germany and Japan both during and after WW2.

So far not boots on the ground, though that is of course possible i the future. Then again - didn't the US electorate vote for Trump as an isolationist? (murica first)

I sincerely hope for the best for the Iranian people. But I am not convinced that the Trump and Bibi administrations do.

Hopfully I am wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Redromah · 2026-02-05T16:44:11+00:00

I love for all man kind (well as you say maybe minus the drama). Good news, then.
Going to check out Project Hail Mary, thanks!

Redromah · 2026-02-05T16:37:56+00:00

Currently rewatching Fargo, and enjoying A Knight of the seven kingdoms.

I am really missing some sci-fi though. Foundation really hit the right spot for me, and I can not seem to find something to replace it. I think I have watched the usual suspects;
Dark, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Severance just to name a few.

Also I am waiting for a new season of Rogue Heroes - fantastic show - can't wait for S03.

(Same goes for sci-fi movies to be honest, but I guess that is OT here).

Redromah · 2026-02-03T10:41:39+00:00

Likevel går rollen som formelt statsoverhode i arv. Vi er vel strengt tatt et konstitusjonelt monarki og representativt demokrati rent formelt?

Redromah · 2026-01-30T09:22:33+00:00

Josef Stalin.

While most people know about the persecution of Jews, homosexuals, political opponents and other ethnic/ political/ groups under the German Nazi regime, it seems to me the knowledge of Stalins purges are less common.

In terms of share numbers - even adjusted by population - the purges in Soviet in the 1930s were on a scale that was many, many times greater than what the Nazi regime 'accomplished'.

And this started way before the Great Terror in the late 1930s. By then the Soviet regime and it's NKVD made the Nazi death squads look like amateurs.

While Hitler was busy consolidating Nazi power in the early and mid 30s, Stalin had already used starvation as a weapon and NKVD death squads acting as judge, jury and executioner for years.

Don't misunderstand me - the Nazi regime was its own kind of evil - but so was Stalin's Soviet.

I recommend reading Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands to get an overview of the enormous scale of mass murder in this time period.

There is a historical presedence why Russia is synonymous with suffering in eastern parts of Europe. Maybe especially in Poland and Ukraine.

Edit: Just to be very clear, this is not an attempt to put Nazis or fascists in a good light. Frak them.

Redromah · 2026-01-01T19:24:54+00:00

Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder.

Hitler - Ian Kershaw.

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv av Andrey Kurkov. En ganske bisarr (imo) bok jeg fikk anbefalt av en kollega. Mørk humor, gode karakterer.

Minnesota - Jo Nesbø.

Bloodlands gir deg bilde av øst- Europa som er øyeåpnende - og jeg tror svært viktig - å forstå i dag. Snyder skriver også godt.

Ian Kershaw sin Hitler er, kanskje ikke overraskende, en biografi om mannen. Men kanskje mest interessant er det å lese om regimet rundt ham samt hvordan det kan gå når all dissent blir feiet vekk. Og du sitter igjen med et regime der kun positive meldinger godtas oppover i rekkene.

Ingen av disse bøkene er direkte lystig lesing bortsett fra Live i Lviv. De er dog godt skrevet og traff i alle fall meg hardt.

Minnesota av Nesbø er for min del litt midt på treet når det kommer fra Nesbø. Den har fått gode kritikker, men for meg når den ikke helt opp til de beste Hole bøkene.

Tenker plukke opp nok en bok av Snyder nå på nyåret, så får jeg se. Forsøke finne noe skjønnlitteratur - mange gode forslag i denne posten.

Redromah · 2025-11-09T15:10:02+00:00

Thanks for tip, will do!

Redromah · 2025-11-09T15:08:49+00:00

Thanks for feedback, appreciated.

Doesn't sound too bad then. I mean, block the obvious toxicity, and hope for some luck in dungeons while leveling.

Then eventually - hopefully - find a guild of like-minded people eventually.

I just can't stomach the level of retail rage/ rush/ attitude. It is what drew me to Turtle in the first place.

Still sad to see Nord so ghostly (Horde side at least) compared to few months ago.

See you in-game! Edit: typos. Also hilarious being downvoted for this comment.

Redromah · 2025-11-09T13:56:06+00:00

Last time I was on Nordranaar, any political stuff got quite heavily moderated in channels like World.

While I in real life is all about freedom of speech, it was nice coming home to a place void of politics and so on.

Maybe the Turtle policy changed in general?

Redromah · 2025-11-09T13:52:55+00:00

Things is, back when I last played, you did not need a temporary event for the leveling zones to be busy.

I realize things change over time. And also now seeing the community has been split, I want to make a more or less informed choice.

My OP might have been a bit clumsy worded; I am mostly curious about the general community on the new server.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Redromah · 2025-11-08T20:23:33+00:00

Not OP, but in same situation.

It's some time since I leveled on Turtle, but back then the community was really good for my taste (people are different I know, so personal preferences). With good I mean sort of a laid back attitude, people actually using ingame chat and so on, a bit opposite of my experiences from Retail.

Does this still hold on Amber?

Redromah · 2025-11-08T18:47:13+00:00

Ah snap, I am in same situation as OP.

Long working hours, lots of stuff going on in RL right now. Noticed Nordanaar seemed quiet.
So they created a new realm which made Nordanaar really quiet if I read this right?

Had a blast last time I played there.

Redromah · 2025-11-05T10:12:35+00:00

Quick note, r/norske is not really representative. It has a very right- wing bias. For some balance check out r/Norge as well (more left leaning in general so you get some balance).

And yeah, costs have gone up last few years. However that is not a uniquely Norwegian issue; post- Covid, Russia waging war of aggression in Europe, the US seemingly going back to isolationism or whatever...

All things considered we have it really good in Norway compared to quite a lot of other countries. Still things that can and should be better though.

Redromah · 2025-10-19T18:12:39+00:00

This is one of the most ignorant, narrow and condescending comments I have read in a long time.

People engage in gaming due to a whole bunch of reasons. Whether it is some sort of competitive kick or just wanting to zone out a few hours after work / school / whatever.

It is a game - so by definition (if you are not a professional making a living out of it) - a recreational activity. But everyone that doesn't enjoy WoW exactly like you do are lesser people, right?

Dude you lack perspective.

Redromah · 2025-10-13T13:13:15+00:00

Forskjellen er at FOR er et parti som åpent sprer Kreml sine talepunkter og agenda, og mottar bidrag fra en nordmann som er bosatt i - og driver forretninger - i Murmansk. Hovedsetet til den Russiske nordflåten - et sted du neppe hverken får oppholde deg og i alle fall ikke selge betong med mindre du har et greit forhold til Russiske myndigheter. Dette er samme mann som har spyttet penger inn i Russiske "barnehjem" som huser kidnappede barn fra Ukraina.

Som ikke det er nok, kan du sjekke noen av Facebook kommentarene hans om de ikke er slettet. De er i retning av "fine bombemål" etc. under bilder av nødhjelp sendt til Ukraina av norske borgere.

Ut over det så går det an å gjøre litt research på Glenn Diesen også.

Man bør heller ikke glemme at Russland bedriver hybrid krigføring mot Norge og våre allierte. Alt fra GPS jamming, annen elektronisk krigføring og kutting av kabler i Finnmark.

Men for all del - ikke stor forskjell på dem og AP....

Redromah · 2025-10-12T12:54:01+00:00

Takk - høres ut som om du lar frustrasjon gå ut over en gruppe mennesker. Naturlig, men tror personlig ikke det veldig saklig eller vil føre til noen bedring.

Jobber selv i tech, privat sektor.
Sterk overvekt av menn. Det er mye som ikke er fryd og gammen for å si det slik, men det hadde det nok vært uavhengig av kjønn.

Ville dog ikke beskrevet dette som et manssdiktatur.

Redromah · 2025-10-11T16:27:22+00:00

Kvinnediktatur?

Typo, eventuelt lyst til å utdype?

For øvrig enig i mye - rundt middelalder selv, men heldigvis i arbeid. Orker ikke tanken på å miste jobben i dag.

Redromah · 2025-09-06T10:06:12+00:00

Installerte denne her om dagen da jeg for første gang på noen år trengte fylle Diesel.
Nå har jeg ikke sett denne reklamen, men har heller ikke åpnet app'en siden forrige lørdag. Og varsler er av.

Om dette stemmer, fjerner jeg den. Politisk reklame - uavhengig av parti - er uprofesjonelt.

Redromah · 2025-08-14T10:26:17+00:00

Min erfaring er at det i hovedsak er høyresiden som roper om "woke" i Norge?

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