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This is funny to me because the purpose of NATO is to strengthen the American industrial military complex, and the alliance is dangerously close to falling apart because there's little chance that NATO backs up Poland

A $10,000 drone taken out by a $384,000 missile.

Putin got tired of Nothing Happening

To show that NATO is toothless.

Seems like the link isn't pointing to what you mention

Guess they're gonna learn the hard way that NATO is for protecting the imperial core, not the periphery lapdogs.

The speed they did this without any length of investigation of a false flag knowing Ukkkraine tried this in the past is sus.

This is literally just that one Monty Python skit:

And you can bet just as little will come of it. They'll just sit around and have their little circlejerk condemning Russia and beating their chests about how united they are and so on.

First time since the start of the Russia-Ukraine that article 4 has been invoked (it was last invoked at the start of the war by eastern European member states), and the 8th time in NATO history of my memory is correct.

The text of article 4 is quite short:

The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.

So just consultation in NATO. My guess is they want to decide if further actions (defensive measures) should be taken, and what those may be. For example Turkey has invoked Article 4 for additional defensive measures (such as the deployment of air defence) or deterrence exercises in the past, or to inform NATO of it's actions in response to military activities in Syria. At most I think, NATO may agree to deploy additional C-UAS (counter unmanned aerial systems) and air patrols more specialised to shoot down UAS to Poland. Outside of NATO, such air patrols were deployed by the United States to Jordan recently, and ended up shooting down Iranian one way attack drones headed towards Israel. I think that currently, the United States is the only nation capable of providing such specialised air patrols in NATO. European NATO members are capable of it, but it would require the purchase of laser guided rockets and certifying it on their aircraft. Or they may agree to keep the current posture and say a bunch of word salad.

has expressed growing frustration at the difficulty of reaching a peace deal amid Russia’s escalating attacks on Ukrainian cities.

I feel like I've heard this phrase be repeated in basically every article of the war at every given point of the reporting.

everything is mostly over now, the line between protesters and mob were blurred in the end hours when governmental building were targeted like supreme courts, National banks, etc

The rage had been specifically against the elite and their properties during the day so the sudden shift in target at the end was very suspicious. It was immediately condemned by the people with several conspiracies floating around about who was behind the attack. felt like mob were going after court, custom office, etc and destroying documents and other evidence deliberately. Currently the Maoist are being blamed for the destruction since they suffered the least damage. Some of it might be even true, just because they called themselves 'Maoist' doesn't mean they are in principle.

Luckily the chaos didn't last long. Nepal army was deployed at 10 pm and order was quickly restored. The suspicion of some foreign power suddenly hijacking the entire thing is entirety valid but don't think thats the case. The army patrolling the street might make it seem scary but they are just providing support. Their arrival made it so that people can sleep in peace.

So, like, about this Nepal shit, is the ban on social media thing because the platforms aren't following whatever law the government passed, like in brazil a few months ago?

If so can I get a feel of how many people here agree that, when the motive for a protest is seriously just wanting to go back on facebook, then fuck this whole movement?

Literally these kids, myself included, could and should go without this shit

First, as always, this is not the "reformist snakes". You might recall that every single Iranian administration does shit like this and the entire political class, reformist or not, is incapable of not reflexively turning to the west.

Second, I stand by the "what the fuck else are they supposed to do?" take. You proceed with these negotiations because the alternative is UN sanctions. The Iranian economy absolutely cannot afford that right now, and the continuity of the Islamic Republic depends on meeting the material needs of its people. Plus, China follows UN sanctions (weak), so if Iran is finally deciding they actually want to buy Chinese weapons they need to do this. Keep in mind it was the non "reformist snake" faction that refused for years to build the military connections with China it needed because of their anticommunism.

Actually existing socialism survives another day in Scandinavia

I really hate to say this but the Gulf States and other Pissreal neighbours might be relieved for the "Palestinian Problem" to finally just go away so they can get on to business as usual.

Edit: While also avoiding Pissreal's very vocal "Great Israel" project, that they would all be affected by. To their own peril.

Why doesn't Russia, Iran and China not fund alt media outlets? They're gonna claim you are no matter what, so you may as well do it