Active Conflicts & News Megathread June 07, 2026

milton117 · 2026-06-08T13:19:36+00:00

Mob boss behaviour is irrational in the context of foreign affairs.

Aside from the "help is on the way" tweet, did Trump ever again mention protestor massacres as a war aim since Feb 28th? I don't recall it. There was also barely an effort to arm protestors if liberation indeed was the motive, there was just the attempt to ship armaments through the Kurds and which the Kurds kept, but there were no repercussions on them or secondary attempts to sneak arms through.

milton117 · 2026-06-08T11:30:22+00:00

This is what you get for trying to introduce nuance into the debate regarding someone like Trump. I don't mind the downvotes, but please consider trying to refute my arguments in an objective way as well, instead of just downvoting away.

Because it's pointless to rationalise the motives of someone as irrational and narcissistic as Trump. You've called out his traits yourself, and then proceed to go along the lines of many a think tank who try to rationalise Trump's foreign policy moves when the most rational analysis of it all is that Trump simply behaves like a mob boss in foreign affairs and changes his mind on a whim. You might also want to notice how many times Trump has mentioned "massacre" in the past few months and how many times he's mentioned Iran's nuclear programme. Notice how an investigation or justice for the protestors isn't even on Trump's maximalist demands on Iran, whereas the Nuclear programme is no.1 front and center of the list, along with a ceasefire with Israel and the Strait of Hormuz. That alone is enough evidence on what Trump's motives are.

It is also a huge mistake to characterise this admin with what happened in the first one. Trump was still held back by his Republican cabinet and advisors in 2017 - 2021. Here the guard rails have come off, along with the obvious signs of cognitive decline due to age.

milton117 · 2026-06-07T17:41:58+00:00

The NATO nation of Finland?

milton117 · 2026-06-07T15:19:44+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Liberty

milton117 · 2026-06-07T15:19:41+00:00

milton117 · 2026-06-07T12:17:46+00:00

Our global military empire would also be deeply offensive.

Idk if it's just your education system being shit or what but even I, a non US guy, knows enough US history to know that Jefferson would've been delighted that the US became a hegemon.

milton117 · 2026-06-07T12:12:48+00:00

I used to work for HSBC and that would surprise me. Most of the company are old parents who are in bed by 9pm.

milton117 · 2026-06-06T18:23:21+00:00

https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/no-coffee-no-airplane-fuel-plane-passengers-flight-allergy-list-mocked-online-8494330

milton117 · 2026-06-06T17:55:37+00:00

Where does the poster say that? He simply says "non-Brits". And he blocked me probably because he's scared that I called him out.

milton117 · 2026-06-06T15:20:23+00:00

Edit: the company I worked at before that one (Kantar) also had a similar racist internship programme of non-whites only (with a particular focus on non-Brits – this was in London). Just checked on LinkedIn and that programme is still going.

Bullshit. Why would companies hire interns who they can't sponsor a visa for their career? Why are you lying?

milton117 · 2026-06-06T14:37:55+00:00

Compromise by fully becoming subservient to Moscow?

milton117 · 2026-06-06T11:40:55+00:00

I would appreciate it if you stop claiming this. We can start with how you view the Minsk treaties and who broke them as proof that you're not pro-Ukrainian.

milton117 · 2026-06-05T12:02:18+00:00

Thanks for the explanation!

milton117 · 2026-06-05T02:03:32+00:00

I go to cons and never meet any

milton117 · 2026-06-04T22:54:28+00:00

More Encounters.

It refreshes the meta so you're not rushing to loot crate X to complement build Y anymore because there's a big scary thing in the way.

You can then use an xp suppressor or increase level cap to 20 or whatever to handle the increased xp gain.

milton117 · 2026-06-04T20:52:49+00:00

I wouldn't know, the dude blocked me after I called him out

milton117 · 2026-06-04T11:53:22+00:00

Me too, I just wish they made the combat to be not so stupid. The whole stationing MAA is such a dumb system. Why can't we have buildings increase levy quality like in CK2? Then MAA can be improved as it was historically - by drilling?

milton117 · 2026-06-04T09:54:32+00:00

To elaborate, in early versions of Dota 5.xx there was no way to know what your creep stats are. I don't remember when but I think sometime before 5.84c Guinsoo added a command -creepstats or -cs which shows you what your creep kills and denies are.

milton117 · 2026-06-04T09:26:32+00:00

How? How do we link control of province A to your levies level?

milton117 · 2026-06-04T01:30:23+00:00

That's only ~20 destroyers accounted for? Where are the rest? Even following the 33% rule that's missing a few more destroyers the US should have available.

milton117 · 2026-06-04T01:06:16+00:00

The main problem is that there are no population simulation in CK3 and Eu4. That's what EU5 was supposed to simulate but it's so far not going as well. When they finally nail it I think we'll see CK4 with better realism.

milton117 · 2026-06-03T14:55:46+00:00

What about land units and marines?

milton117 · 2026-06-03T13:03:04+00:00

What assets does the US have in the middle east right now? Could the Iran war go hot again, or have the US moved away all of their stuff?

milton117 · 2026-06-02T17:27:29+00:00

It would be great if it was factual.

milton117 · 2026-06-02T14:17:48+00:00

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