World Politics Thread

Yes, for the record I know the how’s and why’s of all of this, I don’t really need it explained thanks

Russia bans British flights from its airspace, I’d be absolutely relieved to be told my flight to India is going the long way round and won’t be shot down by some Russian child soldier

But you said yesterday you couldn't get your head around it. It's easy to say you know it now you've been given the answer.

As Australian citizen I can confirm that it is the truth. they made me work from home with my family...

anyway.

been following it for last two months and since the invasion began, non stop. It is scary how accurate proper predictions were on how it will turn out.
I think even Ukrainian government didnt fully buy full invasion.

What is interesting in whole thing, is that Ukraine would never join NATO if Russia worked with west nicely and just said no. There would always be veto, more recently Hungary.

but now

There are talks of Sweden and Finland joining. And i think all nato members would love them more in NATO than Ukraine. so Russia failed at that part.

In the same way I know what a black hole is and why it exists, but I cannot get my head around what it’s like inside one

If you removed the smattering of hair and painted his head brown then Ben Wallace would resemble a Cadbury's Creme Egg. No doubt with the same gooey insides too as opposed to a functional brain

Maybe often, but there's also been this general distrust in authority and experts that's been growing over several decades.

Even well before brexit and trump, public trust in scientists and journalists was at a massive low.
There are many factors that led to that, largely the way science was reported in the media, but it's one of those baby+bathwater situations.

Some journalists over-emphasized aspects of scientific results to make more eye catching headlines, and then those headlines later turned out to not be correct. So people decided that all scientists and journalists were lying.
Some journalists pointed out when some studies or research was funded by particular companies, so people decided that all research was biased and could be assumed to be lies.

It's not even always about what they hope isn't true anymore, it's kinda a default response. Tell them to wear a mask and they'll fight tooth and nail not to wear one. Like little kids.

I taught my kids to be inquisitive and ask questions, rather than the usual japanese thing of just accepting and obeying authority at all times. Now any time I try to get them to do anything they resist and claim that that's what I told them to do. They'll argue for 2 hours about why expecting them to go to bed on time is unfair and how I'm the one who taught them not to just accept it.
The difference is that they're kids, most of the people we're talking about are ostensibly adults.

Except when they've done their own research and declared it as the real truth.

Me too, I never figured them for having a sense of humour.

They're just handing out machine guns to civilians in Kyiv at the minute. Not sure how I'd feel about going up against squadrons of trained soldiers.

Before we are all conscripted in the forever war, at least Elden Ring has turned up.

It's a bit desperate yes, but these guys have extremely high motivation in comparison to the Russians. This could prove a lot harder than Putin initially thought.

Interesting that they're failing to capture other cities and are now pivoting all their resources into taking the capital. I'm sure it's inevitable but it does seem there's a glimmer of hope.