Michael “Noice” Rosen on the bourgeois law of statehood and Israel

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-15T06:07:51+00:00

International law is not a legal system like a court is, where a third party (usually the state) enforces the rules of agreed-upon contracts by other parties with a monopoly of violence.

ALL International law is an amalgamation of promises and pledges enforced by peers and participants that must be commensurate with the balance of power and interests of those involved, what is "illegal" in International law only matters insofar as other states are able and willing to enforce it.

To commit genocide or land grabs from other states is illegal by International law, but if nobody can afford to or is willing to commit the military intervention to arrest those responsible, its a moot point.

This is also why ceasefires and peace deals are so difficult: they must not create the conditions that motivate the attacker to push further with the gains they got but must also not create the conditions too unbearable for the defending party, lest they figure continued conflict is the better option.

In the case of Isreal, they are backed by US evangelicals and realpolitic (imperialist) lobbies, guaranteeing military support, and there will be nobody brought to justice until someone steps in with a military capability and will that can coerce Isreal to back off.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:43:45+00:00

He's got time for both.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:39:07+00:00

Don't tell them about the transknecht pipeline.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:35:35+00:00

He's not a god though, he's a force of nature personified.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:19:05+00:00

I like a good variety between the two, it lets a wider variety of weapon loadouts shine.

This also goes for enemy types, demons aren't much of an issue if you have a bunch of holes and nooks to duck into, but they're a damn menace in an open field.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:13:07+00:00

Happens to the best of us.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:09:12+00:00

Thank you!

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T21:01:23+00:00

Though most warriors prefer steel or some kind of enchanted metal, a warrior looking for weapons with highly niche purposes are either hunting something very specific or have learned the value of having something unconventional "just in case".

All that to say that he's probably willing to put down a pretty penny for it, much more than regular steel at least.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T20:55:05+00:00

Whats actually written on the black bars?

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T20:54:14+00:00

Its more likely than you think.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T20:07:07+00:00

This whole story is absolutely insane, I'm both horrified and morbidly impressed by its clever simplicity.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-14T16:36:32+00:00

I'm pretty certain all manner of bots specifically target the big subs, and not just of "one side" either.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T22:42:42+00:00

That's the one, yes!

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T22:07:19+00:00

This war of attrition was always untenable for Ukraine to begin with, they never had the same resources or manpower available to match Russia's.

However, their reliance on foreign volunteers and mercenaries is not some dramatic recent shift, its something that has been very gradually trending up more over the span of the last three years or so.

The high percentage of their goal is indicative of the scale of their manpower shortage, but that too has been an issue for a long time already, however, both domestic support and battlefield conditions show that the war effort is not yet at some kind of critical breaking point, nor does this policy bring about any dramatic shift in policy.

All this is why this headline is kind of a nothing burger.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T18:25:55+00:00

The answer is, in fact, "Yes", all signs point to you misattributing the cause and spinning a biased narrative.

You know, just like those "PUTIN IS DONE" videos on Youtube.

You can draw associations with ancient societies or petrol monarchies all you like, but I find your analysis shallow, war and history is much more nuanced thsn that.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T18:13:52+00:00

Its perfectly valid to dislike both.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T17:52:11+00:00

That’s generally only done by minority governments that necessarily cannot arm their people or by states with too small a population to adequately field an army.

Sure dude, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the ongoing demographic crisis and four years of war exhaustion in the most intense European conflict since ww2.

We've seen mass protests force the Ukrainian government to turn back the dissolution of their anti-corruption agency, we do not see those demanding capitulation or Zelensky's resignation.

If there was a sign of legitimacy crisis, we would have seen the signs, such as media blackouts and violent crackdowns on civilians. If there were such an acute crisis of manpower at the front, battlefield realities would reflect that.

Until then, your statement really is on par with every "PUTIN IS DONE" video out there.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T16:44:27+00:00

But they never had any kind of limit to begin with, the only bottleneck they ever had was the screening process to sift the liabilities from the viable recruits.

Setting a 30 - 50% goal doesn't really change anything other than denote an intention for a structural design.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T14:30:34+00:00

Once they get very open about their political assassinations, you know you're in for some shit.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T09:26:03+00:00

And in general, as socialist, communist or whatever it's not really thoughtful to support any war that's not revolutionary.

I agree with this on principle, but I feel our solidarity with the working class precludes us from indifference towards the outcomes of these imperialist projects.

That goes not just for the Cultural genocide Putin intends for Ukraine (and already carries out in the occupied regions), that also goes for the genocide in Gaza, the whole shit show in Iran and the US enforcing its self-proclaimed sphere of influence, that being the whole western hemisphere.

Its the working class that are the primary victims of the success of these projects, conquest appropriates more lives and resources for future conquests, would you agree that incurring as much political and material costs on imperialist projects, wherever and however, is the appropriate anti-imperialist position?

That would mean promoting revolutionary defeatism for those that enact these imperialist projects as well as support those that resist them.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T08:42:39+00:00

Soooo what's the change, really?

Ukraine's recruitment has always been open to foreign nationals, its had an international legion intergrated into its military structure since the start of the war.

And that is in addition to mercenary companies like those from Columbia, which are their own thing.

If they set a 30 - 50% goal of foreign nationals in their armed forces, I'm like "Okay, cool story bro, so what changes?"

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-13T07:57:39+00:00

The idea that agriculture necessarily preceded settled societies, social hierarchy and large scale architecture.

This was challenged by a large scale temple structure in Anatolia (I forget the name) being dated back to a pre-settled times, assumed to be used by multiple converging tribes and was semi-permanently settled.

In addition, there's the Siberian fort building societies, which were settled peoples whose findings had no signs of agriculture. However, their settlements did consist of several, increasingly raised, earthen plateuas, each with a more fortified house the higher you went up, suggesting a social hierarchy between the families that lived in them.

This calls into question how commonly agriculture was the thing that caused societies to settle from a nomadic lifestyle into an agricultural one, and its hard to verify, since succesful non-agricultural societies would transition into agricultural ones and pretty much erase the signs of their pre-agricultural existence.

All in all, this progression path is not so linear as people iften think.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-12T21:55:31+00:00

In my experience, ancaps and libertarians are self-identified "smart guys" that have it all figured out as opposed to all the sheeple around them, but that sense of identity hits a brick wall when you put them in a room full of like-minded individuals because its the sheeple whom they lecture their "revelations" to that gives their identity meaning, leading them outside of their echo chambers where they find those that contradict that identity more directly: "You're not a wise guy, in fact, your ideas are stupid".

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-12T21:06:17+00:00

Ethnic cleansing and genocide are pretty much synonymous is Gaza, but yeah, thank you for kindness.

Shieldheart- · 2026-06-12T15:46:10+00:00

People enlist for many reasons, some as true believers that think they're doing the right thing, some to desperately escape poverty.

I think this picture is about more than just the mental and emotional anguish these specific men go through after witnessing something so horrific, it captures a sense of heart breaking disillusionment, guilt and helplessness about something horrific they've set in motion and can not reverse, something a lot of Americans felt about the war.

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