They are children! They are victims here.

Edit: the fact this got downvoted, the fact there are people who will gladly punish children for the actions of their parents, what a hellish world we live in.

The F22 is not from the 1980s.

Canada can perhaps purchase from Turkiye or South Korea. Turkiye’s fifth gen fighter had its maiden flight recently but it is still a few years away from entering service.

The Sassanians alienated their Lakhmid allies -forcefully annexed them and slaughtered their ruling dynasty-. Everyone knows what happened to the Sassanians not too long afterwards.

Who knows if history will repeat itself but worth waiting and finding out.

Edit: not sure why this is getting downvoted. I gave an example of an empire which at the height of its military might went through a period of political instability which lead to it turning against one of its major allies which eventually brought its downfall. The parallels are obvious, but whether we will get a repeat of the outcome or not, is yet to be seen. The replies are as-if the Sassanians are a little unknown empire at the edge of the world rather than one that was at one point an equal to Rome.

Heartwarming.

US politics in a nutshell: Good Cop, Bad Cop (The Simpsons).

I think they have syphilis and being obese in common

Trump reviving “Fifty-four forty or fight!” any day now.

Lemmy is a niche of a niche and there are more centrists (liberals) here than leftists

“Openly” as if Christians aren’t the dominant cultural and political group in the USA

Karoushi is the new cool trend. Everyone is doing it.

India is the largest English-speaking country. At some point their dialect should become the standard rather than the deviation.

I enjoyed the community. Hope they find a new home.

It is also about settler colonialism. There are natural gas fields off the coast of Gaza.