Then we’d see rates at zero. We don’t so your theory is immediately discredited.

It’s truly amazing how the liberal brain fails to think.

No part of the commandment to dress modestly targets just women, and many have lower SA rates than Detroit.

So you just keep swinging and missing with these tired racist tropes.

Or ever. Germany has no natural resources and generally has not been enough of a pain since the Soviets freed you from Nazi control to be a danger to Russia. Why would they invade? Germany doesn’t even have a large contingency of Russian citizens in it.

So again with your ignorance; no woman is called brave for showing her face in public in Iran. You’re thinking of the Burka, which IS NOT A PART OF MUSLIM OR IRANIAN CULTURE AND ISN’T IN IRAN.

This is why I used the term ‘you people.’ It doesn’t matter what colour you are. You fell for israeli propaganda and culture war nonsense. As you people always seem to do.

I can promise you Russia does not care to attack any of the EU. If you’ve been tricked into believing something different, get a better education.

It’s not a bastion of freedom, but it is better than the US and UK and especially Israel at this one category that you incorrectly said it wasn’t.

That was called a correction.

As far as race, you people don’t tend to know anything about Iran but you lump it in with Arab and Muslim culture and assume all things true in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia or Dearborn Michigan must be in common with Iran because they’re all the same right?

Nothing in islam is anti-lgbtq. Nothing in Arab or Persian culture is anti-lgbtq. There are some states that have rules banning it, Iran isn’t one of them.

Hell the ‘morality police’ that you israelis call it don’t even exist across the country. Each region has its own rules and the rules aren’t universal, much less universally enforced. Women aren’t forced to cover in general, but muslim women don’t have to cover in Tehran whereas Umira they do. And that’s awful that region is like that, but pretending it’s the whole country because you’re too lazy, too stupid, too racist, or all of the above to even try to understand a country you’re bombing is ridiculous.

You racists come up with the weirdest conspiracy theories sometimes. Then again you people believe Iran is a dictatorship so I guess you just believe whatever Israel tells you.

…Yes they’re actually recognized under the law, protected from violence, and treated as women equal to AFABs… and have been for decades.

This isn’t even a controversial thing to bring up. You’re just racist.

…Russia is not wanting to and has never stated and the claim from ukraine has never been the take over of Ukraine.

Where you got this idea is beyond me, since no news coverage has ever suggested as much.

This particular conflict is between Ukraine, Luhansk, Donetsk, and Russia. The stated war goals of Russia, from the start, was to secure Luhansk and Donetsk during their fight for independence.

The Ukrainian point of view is that Russia somehow infiltrated both regions, faked a 90+% vote for independence in those regions, and invaded when Ukraine denied their independence.

Same thing with Crimea so many years earlier.

As far as ‘Russian pro-war talking points’ THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO THIS CONFLICT AND NEITHER SIDE IS MORE RIGHT THAN THE OTHER.

Russia is not ‘the bad guys.’

Ukraine is not ‘the good guys.’

Ukraine is lead by a genocidal dictatorship hell bent on creating a new Israel in the corpse of the Ukrainian territory.

Russia is lead by a genocidal dictatorship hell bent on recreating a capitalist propaganda version of the soviet union.

If Russia wins two new countries get made and fall to the Russian block of allied countries.

If Ukraine wins, at this point, they will spend the next 50 years receiving international aid to the tune of trillions per year to try to recreate what they had before the war. While still dealing with a non-zero amount of their population who DO NOT WANT UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP ANYWHERE NEAR THEM, after kidnapping kids off the street to fight an unpopular war.

There is no winner in this war, there is no side to root for, both are fully fascist dictatorships with no sense of democracy, but refusing to understand the underlying motivations of either side hurts analysis of other conflicts.

Like the Iran war isn’t over oil, or religion, or even the oppression of the Iranian people.

It is so Israel doesn’t have any threats in the region during their imperialist expansion. If you treated the Iranian war like you people treat the Ukrainian war, you’d assume Israel is the good guys and the victims — which is how Israel has gotten away with genocide for 80 years.

3k, let’s not use CIA produced numbers. We should be better than that as a species.

Also given it was proven it was a Mossad generated ‘protest’ meant to inspire a colour revolution… maybe don’t blame Iran for defending their sovereignty against a foreign attack.

You people didn’t like it when Russia did the same thing in Ukraine resulting in Ukraine killing hundreds of protestors.

Iran has greater protections for trans women than the US or UK btw.

They’ve always been reasonable. And they’ve always been the victims in modern history.

I don’t think they’re smart enough to parse that, you really have to break down anything that isn’t what their owners’ told them.

That’s the brainwashing I’m talking about. Nothing I’ve said is propaganda, and nothing I’ve stated is being stated by Russia.

You people are as bad as zionists, anything that even suggests your holy land might not be heaven incarnate and your brain shuts down.

What you’re suggesting is that Ukrainians should stop developing these drones and robots so that Russia can get ahead of them, which will lead to even more civilians dying - because Russia sends drones to destroy apartment complexes, hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure all the time - because Russia is a terrorist state. Heck, Russia kills their own soldiers on the battlefield once said soldiers are deemed expendable - all for their glorious emperor Putin.

Everything in this paragraph also applies to Ukraine. Stop pretending their war crimes don’t exist, and if you believe they don’t, expand your media consumption so you actually see truthful reporting.

The rest of your fearmongering brainwashed nonsense shows you have no objective media consumption. You are fully subject to whatever your corporate owners want you to believe, and you happily believe it.

Here’s a hint: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, AND PEOPLE DO NOT DO THINGS JUST TO BE EVIL.

Why is Russia invading Ukraine?

Why does the entirety of the corporate world back Ukraine?

Why is the fact Ukraine has been sending children to die in the front lines against their and their parent’s will just not come up in these discussions?

Why do none of you people question anything your governments tell you?

I get it, you’ve been brainwashed for decades that Russia is magically Nazi Germany (despite their government and economy just being the United States’) and that they want to exterminate all [[insert whoever is getting a new starbucks here]]. And they’re bad, but they’re no worse than the US. They’re no worse than Hungary. They’re no worse than Turkey. They’re no worse than Ukraine or Israel.

They’re all the same flavor of fascist. This is just fascist infighting to see which fascist gets monetary control of land. Not people, the people don’t enter into the equation. Ukraine doesn’t have a people anymore, an entire generation exterminated because death was better than paying taxes to Putin.

We’re not losing robots though. that’s the thing. This isn’t drone on drone warfare. This is drone on civilian and soldier warfare.

And that’s the exclusive future for this technology.

That’s what we decided was better than simply stopping all wars by enabling nuclear proliferation.

Again liberal, I haven’t once done so. I know reading is hard, otherwise you’d be a communist, but do try to read things instead of instinctively shut your brain down every time someone questions your chosen propaganda.

Just because someone doesn’t think the guy that took military control of his country, killed elections, had dozens of parliamentary members arrested, and has been kidnapping young men off the streets to fight in one of the least popular wars in that country’s history is a good guy fighting a good fight doesn’t mean they think the equally as fascist Putin is a good guy.

The world isn’t black and white, no matter how much you liberals would love that to be true.

All Fascism is bad. Not just the ones your state told you to hate.

And that is?

Not Russian, The opposite of fascist hence why I’m against Ukraine and Russia.

But nice try liberal. Maybe the fediverse isn’t right for you, since you align with u/spez 100% and should be on reddit.

So you don’t remember the massive drone strike controversies or why the majority of the Iraqi and Afghanistan population will never, at any point in their lives, for the next several generations, be able to go outside without PTSD induced fear?

Or why drone operators commit suicide at significantly higher rates than other military vets?