Isn’t that movie notoriously terrible?

For whoever is interested in reading it, I quite liked the Peter Green translation. Fair warning though, it’s quite long, longer than the Odyssey.

Ackshually it’s only Hectoring if you drag them behind your chariot, otherwise it’s just sparkling heckling.

I just noticed that the title of this post indirectly has the name of a Rush song in it. It was meant to be!

Why, is he made of cheese?

That Germany gave rise to Fascism. It was “invented” by Benito Mussolini based on a hodgepodge of preexisting concepts and named after the fasces carried by Roman lictors, the bodyguards who accompanied high officials. Benny wanted to recreate the Roman empire so he drew a lot of inspiration from it; it’s why the fascist aesthetic is so classicaly-inspired with a dash of Italian futurism, which was also in vogue at the time.

Poor Mussolini doesn’t get the respect he deserves. First he failed at being a leftist, then failed at journalism, and finally the one thing he actually did that had any impact on the world is usurped by some random Austrian artist.

Obviously. Is there any point in history when the SecDef wasn’t one of the juiciest espionage targets in the world, regardless of who is filling the role at the time?

Oh hey 2112… You’re actually the first person here to notice / comment on it!

It fits — Charlie is a punk rocker whose band opened for the Dead Kennedys.

And also Berlin 1936, and Moscow 1980.

Is “security breach” still the right terminology if it was a deliberate act?

How is this a gotcha - isn’t IDF service mandatory for Israeli citizens? Employing any Israelis at all will automatically make many employees ex-IDF.

Edit: oh FFS I didn’t see the news outlet, Grayzone, really? Literal Kremlin propaganda outlet?

Punks are the best, I wish there were more in government. In Canada we have Charlie Angus who is a legend (his band opened for the Dead Kennedys back in the day) but is sadly retiring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Angus#Early_life,_music,_writing,_and_activism

People up here tend to think of California or NY as the most Canada-like state, but they don’t know what they’re talking about. I’ve long held it’s Minnesota, and you’re proving me right.

If dissenting online makes them feel like they are doing enough to not act IRL, yes.

The American people’s passiveness with regard to “red lines” is about on par with Putin’s overuse of the term. I expect a bit of whining online for 24-48 hours but no meaningful actions.

For now, as long as we all vote ABC…

If you read the source you’ll notice that year was an enormous outlier and their industry has been in decline for some time. Ukraine was an arms (and shipbuilding) powerhouse under the USSR but has been struggling to regain that prominence.

In the sense that they supplied the rest of the former USSR, yes, absolutely — but they didn’t have much in the way of international exports.

This is good because it helps them right now but can also be a pillar on which to rebuild their economy once this is over. Ukraine could find itself being a major arms exporter, like the South Korea of Europe.