it seems like everyone is pissed at Pashinyan given his strategy appears to be... appease Azerbaijan, piss off Russia as much as possible, and fail to align with the West?
Armenia is really in an impossible situation though, I don't even know what I would do if I was in power. probably go beg Iran for security guarantees and weapons and ask if they want a new military base?
gotta respect it, he's probably the only one of these right wing idiots who actually believed in the anti-vax thing. the rest of them would just say anti-vax stuff while on the way to their 12th booster shot.
Election turnout being more or less identical to last time (which was coming only a few weeks after the Ukrainian airline & suppression of Aban protests) is not a clear victory for anyone. Just means things haven't changed.
Khatami not voting though is new. He was always a "moderate" reformist, that believed in change within system no matter not. That he finally abandoned the voting box (but Hassan & Javad didn't) has a lot of implications on mainstream reformist groups.
Iran had elections today, the only real narrative around it was supposed to be what the turnout looked like. ended up being normal I guess.
the UK will nuke themselves before they allow Galloway to become PM
this airdrop thing is absolutely moronic
I hate Stürmer so, so much
a couple months back, I got perma-banned for commenting "you idiots will believe anything" under some dumb Israeli propaganda post. that would never have gotten you banned a few years ago, your comment deleted sure. it's really gotten crazy.
I wish there was a decent news aggregator site to use. I unfortunately use twitter a lot and it's even worse. I'd like to stop using it, but there's no better place to get news. no one's on bluesky. lemmy's fine, but just too small.
no they've done it several times already
Regarding a recent New York Post article claiming Aaron Bushnell had inside knowledge about U.S. forces in Gaza, I reached out to actual friends of his (not just an anon “pal” talking to a conservative rag) who stated Bushnell had not been working for the USAF for four months:
“Aaron has not been doing his military job for like four months so there's no way he has had access to any intelligence.
Also I don't think there being American troops on the ground in Gaza would be the thing to push him to do this. He had a strong enough analysis to recognize the US role regardless of whether or not there were literal Americans soldiers on the ground.”
https://x.com/taliaotg/status/1762892495904518444
should never trust the NYP
it buys into the framing that Bushnell was just mentally ill and that this was a 'suicide' as opposed to a political protest. MSNBC didn't put that in the segment because they care about suicidal people, they did it to downplay and dismiss the reason he did it. if this were a Russian or Chinese person who'd self-immolated, do you really think they'd have covered it the same? it's not standard practice either, not even CNN covered it like that.
man was just trying to raise money for his 6 figure tax debt
Israel did it because Chris van Hollen has been criticizing them recently