PugJesus

"Cultural-level mental disorder" and "Stubbornness verging on total constitutional incapability of changing course" also work

Is it justice if it's done by an unjust party for unjust reasons?

Like, no mourning for Sinwar here, but fuck, Israel icing him isn't exactly what I'd be throwing ticker tape in the streets over.

Explanation: During the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal quite soundly defeated several Roman armies that were sent after him in Italy. In fact, so many Romans died that it's estimated that 20% of Rome's military-age males were killed by Hannibal. For reference, WW1 had about 15% killed before the will to fight collapsed and the war ended.

And yet, Rome kept coming back, with more and more and more men. They banned mourning. They taxed all luxuries. They called up all the young men they could regardless of social class. They armed slaves in exchange for their freedom. Whatever it took. And because of that determination, Rome eventually, resoundingly won the war, despite losing entire armies to Hannibal's forces.

Always makes me wonder how much of it came from "We're paying men to stay under arms 24/7 for years of their lives, and bored soldiers are always fucking about with their equipment"

There are certainly economic incentives and parts of the country are quite nice, but I think, at the end of the day, the core incentive for Netanyahu and his goons is just ethnic supremacism. "We must show these dirty foreigners who God has granted this land to"

Hezbollah, a terrorist group in Lebanon, has been trading fire over the border with Israel for the past year. Israel claims that they're definitely only invading Lebanon because Lebanon isn't stopping Hezbollah (Lebanon, practically speaking, can't, because Hezbollah is better armed than the nation's actual military). In service to this very noble goal, Israel has been indiscriminately shelling residential areas, because as we all know, that's how to defeat terrorist organizations.

Rather predictably, the Israeli ultraright has already begun salivating over the prospect of having another bleeding ulcer like Palestine to genocide and colonize; while the Israel right pretends that the ultraright doesn't exist and they DEFINITELY aren't thinking the exact same thing. Realistically speaking, Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, started this shit to have another crisis to hang onto power with, as, absent the war(s), he's deeply unpopular.

The UN isn't coming down on them because the UN is powerless and slow. They just got around to 'expressing concern' for their own peacekeepers that are being fired upon in Lebanon.

Thought it was just that they were useless for most healthy adults with any diet short of nutritional deficiency.

My dog would put his paw to my mouth whenever I sang. I think because my mother thought it was hilarious

Double up, lads!

Okay, but we have to be careful what part of the budget the money goes to. If we pay the cops too much, they might send their kids to college or some other liberal bullshit; and if we pay too much for training, we might accidentally get them competent instructors instead of grifters who promise them that killing people will make their pp hard. We have to make sure that we only buy military surplus that no police force could conceivably need, and paint it scawwy black, because military camo isn't oppressive enough.

Most moral army in the world, the IDF is just operating off the presumption that life is suffering and it's a good thing to reduce suffering.

Explanation: Romans had a neat little trick that was trotted out from time to time where they would form a kind of testudo so their comrades could use the shields as a ramp. It was actually an effective tactic for assaulting low walls and camp ramparts! No need to clamber up while some sod stabs at your grasping fingers, you can hop up and face him like a MAN.

As you can see in the second picture, using military gear of one's comrades for a quite literal boost is still a tactic some 2000 years later!