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Every home should have an auger, but a plunger will work quicker, easier, and cleaner, 99 out of 100 times.

There’s way more history and nuance with the current migration crisis facing Europe than I feel like delving into with this comment, so I’m just going to leave you with a quick note about why you’re being downvoted:

Intentionally trying to capsizing migrants so they drown isn’t the same as “being called racist”. Forget whatever opinions or beliefs motivated these actions, this is attempted murder, at best.

So whether or not your commentary would be reasonable on an article discussing immigration policy, it’s irrelevant to this article. Which again, is about Spanish police trying to drown migrants by intentionally driving their police boat at, and then over, their small dinghy.

Waters outside of a countries economic exclusive zone, per the ratified UN convention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone

They have been a staple of great power competition since the Cold War, as a means of political signaling, military posturing, and gathering of intelligence.

Possible, but these are also the type of aircraft you would expect to see in mass during any naval conflict or blockading action against China. I believe the PLAAF/PLAN are working on their version of Rapid Dragon.

Relatively slow, but plentiful, cargo planes, would be a pretty obvious choice for launching a saturation attack against USN or Japanese forces operating outside the range of their land based missiles. Again, assuming they develop a similar system to Rapid Dragon.

This isn’t reconnaissance, it’s standard airspace incursion and intercept.

Everyone here seems to be a really hawkish as of late, or possibly just having a very poor understanding of international relations.

Yes, you can.

Russia and Turkey have very different political dynamics than China and Japan.

Also, these types of airspace incursions, followed by intercepts, are pretty standard amongst major powers.

It doesn’t mean they’re benign, but that shooting down Chinese planes intentionally as a response, is something you do if you’re willing and ready for the escalation path to result in open conflict, not simply an escalation.

What benefit? What doubt?

None of the other possibilities reflect well on Russia either.

There’s nothing in that article that provides any information as to how and why the hotel was struck, just that it was struck.

You can acknowledge Putin is a violent dictator, without pretending that he’s some cartoon villain. Evil is more complex than that, and so is war.

Maybe, or it could have been poor intelligence, systems failure, or there could have been an actual HVT at this location, and they just didn’t give a shit about any civilian collateral damage.

I’m not saying any one of those scenarios is more likely than what you’re suggesting, just that they’re all just as likely until we know more.

Edit: my bad, I didn’t realize everyone here already knows for a fact that this was Putin lashing out, and there no possibility that it was anything else. You must share your OSINT gathering secrets with me.

Because of Russia’s vast geography and relatively limited waterway access, it’s better to think of their different fleets almost as individual smaller navies.

Especially in the context of the Black Sea fleet and Turkey’s ability to restrict access of military vessels through Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits because of the Montreux Convention.

So to answer your question under that more narrow scope, I believe it’s roughly 20% of the Black Sea fleet has been destroyed.

That becomes moot when it’s war, and the coverage in question is about the internal political situation of the people they are currently fighting. The same applies to any country at war, and their domestic press coverage of their opposing force, or country.

Does this mean I should use AJ to source credible information on internal Israeli politics? How about Russia Today for reporting on Ukrainian morale?

Seriously, stop posting wartime propaganda and pretending it’s credible journalism.

I don’t know, I feel it brings something…a bit of good cheer and comic relief, which is always needed when discussing…checks notes… Ah yes, colonial settler violence, indigenous displacement, and ethnic cleansing.

The judge was the literal child of Uganda. Because she displeased his parents (Uganda), they disowned her. They even disinvited her from all upcoming family birthday parties and witch burnings.

Or maybe they meant distanced,* like it says in article. I don’t know, pick whichever version of events you prefer, that’s what I always do.

• Uganda distanced itself Friday from Julia Sebutinde…

Seeing as these all flow down from my original response, I’m pretty sure it’s you who doesn’t understand the context of the conversation.

Also, the torture in question wasn’t the execution method. So again, I suggest you re-read the comment thread.

The decades are a function of the appeals processes; some mandatory, and others initiated by inmates.

I’m not sure fast tracking the process would be an improvement…

You realize that my questions were rhetorical, right?

Re-read the comment chain, maybe you meant to reply to someone else?

So if I’m sentenced to 20 years for first degree murder, is the fear and terror I feel over losing my freedom the state torturing me?

What about if my doctor’s office refuses to give me my diagnosis over the phone on a Friday, and tells me I have to wait for an office appointment on Monday. Is that torture? Should I file a legal complaint or try to get charges pressed?

You’re conflating internal agony and anticipatory fear, with actual externally applied methods of torture.

I understand what point you’re trying to make, but words have meaning and if everything is torture, then how bad can torture really be?

I disagree that a painless execution is torture, even if I understand where you’re coming from.

My objection to capital punishment isn’t because I don’t believe some people deserve death.

My objection is simply that innocent people are convicted all the time, but at least unjust incarceration is situation that can be reversed.

Setting aside the national shame that capital punishment is, regardless of the method used, they strapped his face with a mask. He wasn’t in a pod as nitrogen levels rose. He was force fed the gas with a mask that prevented him from “breathing” normally.