And she also voted against releasing the Epstein documents. So, yeah, there’s that too.

For the record, MBDA has also stood up an assembly line for PAC-2 GEM-T missiles (amongst other things) in Schrobenhausen, Germany. So there’s at least an alternative supply line for that particular model. Yes I know the logistics are complicated and a lot of US components are still used, but worst comes to worst, I don’t think the EU would have too hard of a time finding regional alternatives if our government decides to pull the rug on technical support for that (which would have much greater and more far reaching implications than a single PAC-2 assembly line).

Point 3 looks like a pretty obvious poison pill. That is: Russia could conceivably start some sort of grey-zone conflict with Finland before the 6-month period, and thus (per international law) tie Finland’s hands in their use of defensive land mines.

In Finland’s shoes, it’d be prudent to just go “yeah we’re breaking the treaty, and were specifically ignoring Article 20 Section 3 due to urgent national security considerations”.

Tbh it’s better than strip mining or coal power plants.

And in extremely hot areas, planting crops under solar arrays is a great idea, and can help more sensitive crops survive in areas where they’d otherwise get baked to death.

Huh. I see they’re shipping right past concentration camps and moving right to a concentration city.

I genuinely cannot wait until Thiel gets his comeuppance, one way or the other.

I’m gonna need you to take about 20% off the top there bud

That is just… a comical level of misrepresentation of the nature and context of Rutte’s commentary.

People “give away” date rape drugs all the time.

…what…?

No idea. If I caught someone doing it, I wouldn’t talk to them about what their rationale was. I’d throw my beer at them and then yell for the bouncer that some guy was trying to slip shit into drinks.

Tangentially, I was chatting with the owner of my local pub in Boston recently, and apparently it’s become something of a game (?!?!?!?!?) to try to slip people mickeys around here. As in, just see if you can sneak it into the drink, with no real intent of abuse or rape or whatever - just to see if you can do it.

I fucking hate humans sometimes.

Ngl it would be the height of comedy if Fox did an ideological about-face

Wow you are tiresome to talk to

Dude you’re being an apologist for known Russian propaganda outlets. I’d have the same reaction if you posted something from Fox, OANN, or whatever else, which is essentially the same for the current regime here

Rich parasite class who slander good non-western sources like RT

lol

checks user instance

lemmy.ml

I don’t doubt it, but… RT as a source? Really? I feel like we should stick to less obviously biased outlets.

Haha welp, guess we have airline bombings to look forward to in the future

This timeline fucking blows, guys.

The German government will not go for that narrative, I’m guessing

Send more blue shells