if voting for my own interests comes with the cost of implicitly accepting that tens of thousands of children will be killed in bombing raids abroad, then I refuse

AFAIK the total destruction by conventional bombs in the Gaza Strip is equivalent to at least a couple atomic bombs; most buildings especially in the north have been destroyed and conditions for civilians are unbearable.

I think the reason why Israel hasn’t nuked Gaza is that a) it’s a major taboo which would massively isolate them even beyond their current growing isolation, and b) doesn’t actually solve any problems for them. Hamas exists in tunnels underground and nukes won’t kill them, and Israel is already killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians (and perhaps a million or more will be dead by the time Israel collapses) by blocking off aid and starving the population to death. And as you say, the radioactive particles would probably hit Zionist-occupied Israel too. Might also provoke Hezbollah and others, depending on what exactly they have planned in the event that most of Gaza’s population dies.

Similar reasons why Russia probably won’t nuke Ukraine. Not to say that Russia = Israel, if anything it’s the other way around when talking about the Donbass, but: what problem does nuking Ukraine solve which is unattainable with conventional explosives? And is that problem being solved worth the potential international isolation?

It’s radical Last-Thursdayism

name your favourite anti-authoritarian system. you wanna have a revolution to create it? whoopsie doopsie, you’re literally forcing people (maybe at gunpoint!!!) to do something that they don’t want to do, you fucking authoritarian tankie monster. next you’ll be saying you want to get rid of corporations (extremely authoritarian over those business owners)

bro the United States has the largest prison population in the world and regularly overthrows countries they don’t like, the US is by far the most authoritarian country in the world by any sensible definition

Which referendums are you referring to and does any country besides Russia or North Korea accept the results?

literally the consent “isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?” meme but with America

but this is also a very funny way of imagining how self-determination and independence movements work a lot of the time. Imagine a world where a newfound country breaks free from an existing one and then that newfound country sees that 90% of the UN, including the country they just broke free from, doesn’t recognize them for doing that and they’re just like “Well, shucks. I guess we’re going back and re-joining the country again, because these people aren’t ready to accept us yet!”

I’d love to see how you people will react when Mexico joins BRICS and the US invades it.

I cannot fucking wait for China and Russia to do freedom of navigation exercises between Cuba and Florida like how the US does with Taiwan and China and for Americans to just fucking LOSE it. Holy shit, it’ll be so funny. “No, this isn’t the same because China is evil and we’re the good guys!”

Ukraine has a responsibility to make sure US and foreign support isn’t wasted and they’re doing just that.

idk dude, maybe you should stop sending wave after wave after wave of leopards and bradleys into minefields if you want to not waste Western resources

I hope Ukraine kill all these invading Russian motherfuckers and that Putin dies too.

the saddest thing is that at the end of this war, there will be hundreds of thousands if not millions of dead Ukrainians, all who died because of Western hatred. but you won’t actually care, will you? the lives of the average Ukrainian mean nothing to you. you could send a hundred Ukrainians to die horrifically in the no man’s land and if a Russian stubs his toe because of it, you would call it a worthy sacrifice, because causing the Russians inconvenience and suffering is worth much more than saving the lives of innocent people who have been conscripted at gunpoint.

if it wasn’t a worthy sacrifice, and you thought this wholesale slaughter should stop, you would support ending the war, like the left does.