Thursday 25 April 2019

Shoigu and Lavrov on International Security

The main problem seems to be incompetent American interference.


International security is an inherently cooperative field of endeavor. American attempts to secure unspecified "American interests" abroad is just throwing a spanner in the works.

The problem is the nature of these so-called "US national interests" that are being "protected". This makes it look like these national interests are in fact evidence of war crimes committed by the US/British/French coalition.


The US fired more artillery shells into Raqqa than at any time since the Vietnam War.


Russian tradition is not to give or accept offensive weapons as gifts, according to this Pravda report. There is a similar tradition in England of giving a coin in return for a gift of a knife, but I was told that this was simply to absolve the giver of guilt in the event that the recipient of the gift accidently cut themself with it. But maybe these two reasons are ultimately equivalent? I am thinking about how many Czech-made AK47s were shipped to Africa in the late sixties and early seventies, .... 😂


This Amnest International Strike Trackers project is interesting. A year or so ago I tried to get people on Twitter to talk about what sort of social media infrastructure was necessary to support collaborative projects like this, but nobody showed any interest in it. I still have a problem getting enough food to eat.

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