overview for CascadeOfLight

There was another post somewhere with the calculation of the actual explosive warhead mass converted into TNT equivalent, and it was around 6kT total, just over a third of Little Boy which was 15kT. Which is still absolutely fucking insane.

NATO Allies Struggle to Agree on Long-Term Funding for Ukraine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

No it cannot, because the Ukrainian army and regime is filled with nazis that want to ethnic-cleanse the Russian speaking population.

Here is a video of a Ukrainian nazi conference on the 5th of February 2022 (!) discussing the end goal of a dismembered Russia, which these nazis expected to gain a large share of the spoils from.

And lastly, here is a CIA document from 2008 (!!!) laying out almost the exact sequence of events that the West would go on to instigate over the next decade and a half, dragging Russia into a war it went to extreme lengths to avoid

The international diplomatic war over Taiwan’s status just escalated sharply in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

The Chinese Nationalists thought that military power should decide that they were in charge of China, right up until the People's Liberation Army fucking bodied them and they fled to their little island with their tails between their legs (and then conducted massacres against the native population and anyone remotely leftist).

This """independence dispute""" would have been resolved seventy years ago had the US Navy not stuck their fucking imperial beak in and stopped the communists chasing down these fascist war criminals and finishing the job.

Only 11% of Russians say sanctions have personally affected them or their family, poll shows in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah, clearly they just post any kind of Russian propaganda over at the... checks notes Kyiv Independent

China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why are you defending the rump state of a fascist dictatorship?

I hope the "Republic of China" can someday be peacefully dissolved and the province of Taipei reunited under the mainland government.

US lawmakers pass Tibet policy bill that questions China’s claims over region in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

I question the US's claims over a certain region (the whole of it)