Naturally. Iranian deployments into Syria and military supplies to Hezbollah are Israel’s biggest conventional national security threat.

Supplying Ukraine with military systems won’t reduce Russian reliance on Iran, will make bombings in Syria more difficult, and also weaken Israeli defenses (especially if missile defenses).

Basically, in contrast to most countries sending weapons, Israel has actual tangible national security threats to their own cities to deal with.

Why don't they just throw those spies in a barrel of acid? I'm pretty sure the Russians would do similar practices to rid spies of other countries.

Well until the Russian military bases are gone its not.

The idea that Ukraine is going to get out of this without a compromise is just wishful thinking and not realistic. Russia is not just going to throw their hands in the air and admit they were wrong. Either this grinds on and on wasting lives everyday, or diplomacy of some sort will occur giving a way out

yeah... you will

They actually have pretty good building codes and standards after the big earthquake in the 90s. The issue is that they have terrible enforcement and have had a series of construction violation amnesties, which were politically very popular.

Only one party openly supports Kremlin values i.e. reactionary traditionalism, anti-democratic illiberalism, authoritarianism, anti-lgbt and anti human rights, anti-NATO, anti-green energy/pro-petrol state etc etc.

So, uh, yeah. The GOP is in lockstep with Russia. Democrats not at all.

That would be the noose that's been 'tightening' on Bakhmut for some 5+ months now??

Dear Vlad, if your forces can't take a small village in 5 months, maybe you should rethink a few things.

Well good luck getting reinforcements and supplies through Ukraine Vlad

Don't forget it started with Brexit.

Slugheads.

Corrupt regimes always need an out-group to persecute, in order to distract attention from the corruption.

Allowable substitutes: Commies, Nazis, Trans people, minorities, women, educators, etc.

It's in their rule book, look it up.

Wonder when china will annex its territories back from Russia

Just waiting for the headline "Breakaway Republic of Texas under threat from U.S. Military; Putin promises freedom forces to defend Texas from American hegemony"

It's like Florida

Deport him

cause russia knows china is gonna $#@! them in the @$$

The situation in Bakhmut is becoming increasingly fraught as Russia continues to feed into the meat grinder there, progressing with an encirclement of the city and putting its remaining supply/ now escape routes under significant stress. It's a Russian plan in progress, one which has been moving at the pace of a glacier that is yet to finish - perhaps it will never be fully successful.

The headline uses the analogy of a noose, but that hardly seems unreasonable considering the context.

Would you prefer reporting which did not reflect developments on the ground?

Putin should be concerned that all the other neighbors that he's kept under his thumb might notice how thinly stretched he's become.

Don’t worry about PMCs until a mega corp has one.

Chickens mature relatively quickly.

If you have to kill your entire flock of chickens and replace them with newly hatched chicks, they'll be laying in just over 4 months time.

Plus, if people stop buying eggs because of cost, it's not like you can store them and sell them later. So prices tend to go down faster than something that can be stored, like wheat or corn.

By not contributing to anything.

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When will the west get their hands on the lektor

Why is Australia even worth spying on? Russia is just a minor trading partner and we've obviously not a military threat to them (at least not on paper, but given its abysmal performance against Ukraine maybe we are)