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Jesus fuck that sounds bad... sorry about that.

I get what you are saying but there are extensive, publically released offcial documents from the US government that the US has been very much convinced Israel has had nukes since the 60s.

What... what kind of ... what can be more official than a declassified CIA document that says 'yeah we're pretty sure Israel has nukes'?

From all the minutes (transcripts) of Congressional hearings about the Apollo Affair, which also had FBI reports and CIA reports and I think the NSA as well?

I am not asking this rhetorically, to just belabor a point for emphasis.

I am asking you: If all this shit doesn't meet your 'official source' criteria... what does?

Hahha there is tons of proof, if you use the standard the US used to claim Iraq had WMD and then invade them.

Difference being that Israel actually has nukes and does everything they can for a very long time to stop the IAEA from getting assigned to look at them...

...and Saddam actually let weapons inspectors in, because the only chemical weapons he still had were old artillery shells we fucking sold him in the 80s, ageing and leaking in a few armories that had been cordoned off as hazardous waste dumps.

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Howabout the fact that Israel has a nuclear weapons doctrine?

That you can find random essays written by West Point grads in 30 seconds of websearching... that are about Israel's nuclear doctrine?

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/israel-samson-option-interconnected-world/

Despite Israel also having a 'nuclear ambiguity' policy?

Despite also Ephraim Katzir, Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert all actually making public statements that Israel does have nuclear weapons?

That they caused a giant fucking scandal back in the 60s by stealing actual fissile material from NUMEC, a US company that uh, refines weapons grades uranium?

Look up 'Apollo Affair'.

That the CIA believed Israel had working nukes back in '75?

That they conducted a nuclear test in cooperation with South Africa in '79?

'Vela Incident'.

That the French helped them build an enrichment facility outside of Dimona in the Negev, that an unclassified US report released in 1980 concluded its had working, functional capacity since 1965?

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011997288&view=1up&seq=433

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Why?

Why doesn't the world openly call out this bullshit?

Well it certainly couldn't have anything to do with Mossad and Jeffery Epstein, no sir, nothing like that, definitely not that.

You can insaneify this further:

Not only have total nuclear armament for every country on Earth...

Every country on Earth also employs Israel's Samson Doctrine.

Which is: If we're going down, we are sending a nuke at every nearby capital we can, ally, foe, neutral, doesn't matter; if we can't exist, no one can.

Well that certainly is a way to convince someone of something; insult them and then other them, and use that othering as the explanation why they just aren't capable of understanding complicated concepts.

Poka poka, spasibo za vstrechu.

The Russians have occupied foreign land, commited vast numbers of warcrimes by indiscriminately blowing the shit out of civillian areas at a scale not seen in the region since WW2, and while perhaps not literally enslaving the remaining Ukranian population, they are forcibly destroying the language culture and identity of Ukranians in occupied territories, and they are settling Russian nationals in occupied areas.

That's settler colonialism.

Move into an area, claim control over it, kill those who resist strongly, kill a bunch of civillians in the take over process, culturally erase and assimilate the remaining local population, and then transplant a bunch of your own citzens from elsewhere into your new territory to make it yours.

Your comment argues against Russia being classic imperialists... which is not the same thing as expansionist settler colonialism.

The two can and often do go hand in hand... but they are not the same thing.

So basically, I can end this here, the vast majority of your reply is off topic.

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But!

In simple words, in colonialism a country invades another country

Ok, Russia has done that.

in the aim of taking its resources or exploiting and descriminating against its population

Ok, this has happened as well, unless you somehow think Russia... isn't going to use the territory it has captured... not like Crimea is a super strategically important port location or anything ... not like any agriculture or mining happens in eastern Ukraine...

...discrimination against the local population has been rampant with warcrimes galore against civillians, from remote arty/missile strikes to naval bombardment to executing civillians to kidnapping Ukranian children and sending them to 'you are Russian now' foster family placement programs...

but uh sure. no mass concentration camps. just mass graves and mass obliteration of civillian areas. that you'll be shot if you try to flee westward from. so you better act like you're russian now.

nope no forced cultural assimilation here, no sir.

what Russia has done is use military power to invade an area not controlled by it to change their ruling class

Ah, so you would support the US/Coalition invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan with that logic.

they want to make the population have a Russian citizenship and for the land to be under the map of Russia.

Yes that's just general conquest.

A citizen of an eastern Oblast of Ukraine after Russia takes over will still be the same as he was earlier, just now with a Russian citizenship.

This was already the case, in large numbers, before the invasion.

Just like how people in Crimea were Ukrainian citizens before 2014, but after they became Russian citizens, and Crimea is treated as a part of Russia (although not recognized by a lot of countries).

Yes, just like when Rome conquered somewhere, they placed either literally their own, or friendly but subserservient local puppets at the top of the society, declared the whole territory part of Rome.

You are also leaving out the part when Russia has hassively encouraged settlement of Russian nationals into Crimea and other eastern Oblasts.

You know, kinda like with Israel and the West Bank.

Settlers. Moving into a colonized area. Area gained by force of arms.

Settler colonialism.

... you can do a settler colonialism either with or without enslaving or forcibly assimilating the mainstay local population.

In America, we just killed most of them. Did a bit of the kidnapping and forced culturalization of children too.

Seattle has:

Medium sized international commercial sea port.

Boeing Field, half of which is a military only zone.

Largest manufactorium of aircraft in the world a bit north in Everett, more stuff in Kent.

Also in Everett is a deep water west coast Naval base.

Nearby to Seattle is JBLM, huge military base.

Nearby is also Fairchild and Kitsap major Naval bases. Fairchild has Navy's ELINT aircraft, Kitsap has a whole lotta submarines.

Major general convergence point for road traffic, blow apart I5, imagine 405 traffic after that.

Pretty major concentration of transformers for electrical for the whole region.

Major industrial railyard, medium sized passenger one.

... And a whole lot of major internet undersea tunnels connect to the rest of the world, and the rest of the US, in a building in downtown Seattle, which of course also has a couple floors dedicated to every 3 letter agency you've ever heard of.

It completely makes sense for an adversary to nuke the Everett to Seattle to Tacoma area out of existence.

Well shit, hey there ya go.

But uh yeah, keeping it stocked is actually a bitch and a half.

You have to monitor temp and humidity levels, else most shit will in fact go bad. You really, really do not want to move into your bunker and discover a surprise black mold infection everywhere.

Gotta check your water system, gotta check your electricals... its not just buy it and forget it, it requires active monitoring and maintenance.

Like uh, more recently, a whole bunch of gun nuts went out and bought themselves boatloads of ammo during the latest 'Dems are gonna take all your guns' scare... thinking of it as both a more normal situation 'investment' (planning on prices going up forever) as well as useful for barter and shooty shoot in a shtf scenario.

Well guess what, that was a cyclical bubble, not a new constant trend, ammo didnt just keep going up and up and up.

Oh and if you move, transporting a small armory's worth of ammo is a logistical nightmare: very dense and heavy, also it can explode, also its fucking weapons grade munitions, enjoy paperwork, also a bunch of states just passed laws that more or less said... yeah, if you're 3rd party transacting ammo, you have to do that all through a gun store who can submit all the paperwork, no more loophole for untrackable ammo with no paper trail.

And the best part: many, many of these buffoons... didn't bother with environmental control.

Surprise, idiots!

Heating and cooling cycles weaken cartridges over time, air can get into a cartridge with a compromised seal, which now begins to ... basically neuter your gunpowder, rust is a thing that can happen when moisture is too high, as is mold, and all of these things can turn your rounds low quality or outright into duds in just a few years of not being properly stored.

There is truly nothing funnier to watch than divorced Republican dads fail and fail and fail all over again at everything they attempt because they are too overconfident, don't bother to fully research a topic before diving into it, and assume they are experts because they watched another overconfident asshole on youtube acted like one... and disregard any relevant questions or criticism from someone they don't respect.

I think I actually first played uh... Gen 3 Pokemon, I forget the names... yeah, played them on a smartphone back in 2015, had been using ZSNES on PC since forever to play ChronoTrigger and such... hell, I remember 'playing' Pokemon Gold on some emulator... before it was even released in America.

I say 'playing' because 9 or 10 year old me could not read Japanese at all, rofl, and nobody had translated it yet.

EDIT: Oh, right also worth adding:

A good number of these newer emulator focused devices, focused on retro gaming?

People do actually make entirely new games, for GBC, GBA, NeoGeo, whatever, that are only distributed for free, as ... new games designed for retro hardware.

So there are in fact new handheld retro games, if that makes any sense, and many Emulator wrapper or emulator adjacent programs just show them to you as downloadable in their 'market'.

Huh.

Well, that's unfortunate.

Anyway, chefs kiss at your name, that's pretty good, I can hear the Daft Punk song just reading it, lol.

I understand the strategy, I think it makes sense, I just think its funny to see it visualized as... well, we all know where they are lol.