Does this marvellous trick, perchance, work in the profile, too?
For the denizens of .ml, the German political spectrum has just the right party, too: the BSW. A bunch of batshit insane (as in antivaxxers) self proclaimed “peace loving” “leftists”, conveniently also supported by Russia.
Purely coincidentally those nutjobs voted for that bullshit motion together with the Nazis of the AfD.
Worse. If things keep going as they are, the shit that Germany will get together will be a giant pile of brown Nazi shit in the bright blue varnish of the AfD.
Hinternschiethausen-Donnerbalkenheim
I didn’t know that village.
The local equivalent here is Hinterfotzenmehlbach.
The problem is that it will in the end boil down to such hair splitting. In the war crimes trials after WW2, for instance, the sinking of merchant vessels by submarines with no prior warning, then illegal under rules that had been written well before practical submarines had been invented, (“cruiser rules”) was deliberately overlooked, because all sides had been doing it. On top of that comes the problem that the only side that will ever agree to voluntarily submitting its personnel to a truly fair and impartial trial is the side that is less inclined to committing war crimes in the first place.
Even the requirement for giving a warning before attacking a merchant vessel under a neutral flag isn’t absolute (Section V.67 f): Unless circumstances do not permit, they are to be given a warning
What exactly constitutes as warning isn’t specified either. What exactly the permitting circumstances are, is also left open to interpretation. I am fairly certain that this rule was included to accommodate the way submarine warfare was conducted by everyone from WW2 onwards.
The only vessels for which giving a warning prior to an attack is unconditional, even if they are violating a precondition for their protection, are hospital ships. (Section III.49)
I would really love to see them succeed in the long run, but the shares are going up and down based on these types of news.
Shares going up and down are really just rich people gambling. Unfortunately, this kind of gambling isn’t nearly as well regulated as other forms of gambling, yet it has a real impact on entire societies rather than just the gamblers themselves and their family.
Merchant vessels and civil aircraft are civilian objects unless they are military objectives in accordance with the principles and rules set forth in this document.
Is the important part here. And the rules set forth leave quite a bit of room for interpretation. It pretty much boils down to what you define as otherwise make an effective contribution to the enemy’s military action. That can be interpreted as including the transportation of export goods whose sale is used to finance the war.
Also, every protection is only granted under the precondition that the protected craft strictly stick to a clearly defined set of rules.
For example, the technically “neutral” shadow fleet vessels that have been dragging their anchors through undersea cables in the Baltic in the recent years would have been legitimate targets for the fact of engaging in the cutting of undersea cables. Likewise does the act of intelligence gathering void the protection afforded to merchant (and other protected) vessels.
He puts his loyalty where the money is. Schröder has always been shamelessly and openly corrupt, and his “friends” have “coincidentally” always been rich people who benefited from his policy. Putin is just the last known big buyer of his services.
It’s worse than that, it’s a monument to corruption that goes all the way back to Schröder.
And the organ donor card says: “Take whatever you want, but if I were you, I’d keep my hands off the liver.”
Where can I donate for a missile to hit that particular datacenter?
one more thing…
I doubt a new figurehead will help them much. A society that repeatedly elects someone like that orange shit stain on humanity is broken to the core, can’t fix that with replacing the top muppet.
At very least we have to reign them in so they can’t do any harm.
Those leeches rarely care about people, they are all about money.
Those protests are highly criminalised, of course, and you run the risk of being prosecuted under laws meant for the prosecution of Nazis, if you dare to publically call that genocide a genocide, and condemn it as such.
It’s quite ironic that all this is happening in the name of “never again”.
Most of the perpetrators got away with it, though, by keeping a low profile. (Of course, they were all “properly denazified”, with official, rubber stamped and signed paperwork to “prove” it) The performative collective remembrance is merely an empty shell, and goes hand in hand with a justice system that has systematically and purposefully dragged its feet when it came to prosecute them. Only in the recent few years, a handful surviving accomplices were dragged to court, if they even were still able to stand trial.
it learned quite a bit. For example, that you can largely get away with a genocide, if you keep a low profile.
What an utter disgrace. I despise having to pay for those accomplices to a genocide, and being made an accomplice, too, through my taxes funding this shit.
This should clear up any potential confusion and/or delusion about the usefulness of US-made equipment for defence.