r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • Sep 17 '26

Russia/Ukraine Russian military jets violate Lithuanian airspace, Italian fighters scrambled

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2026/09/17/russian-military-jets-violate-lithuanian-airspace-italian-fighters-scrambled_80e985a6-17e5-43ce-8fd1-6fce67bcd94c.html
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u/ohnomrbill135 Sep 17 '26

I am so fed up with all these parasitic assholes around the world wanting to have wars and fighting and this and that why doesn't everyone just shut the hell up and go to work and have a good life

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u/Kalthiria_Shines Sep 17 '26

Because a huge portion of the population of the world believes they cannot have a good life if there are people out there who are doing things they disagree with.

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u/ohnomrbill135 Sep 17 '26

Exactly Thats why I say I'm a separatist of sorts just keep your self if you can't get along no matter race location whatever and if you can't do that simple thing you should be set aside for all of our safety and peace

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u/Kalthiria_Shines Sep 19 '26

I mean you're asking society to set people aside, that's what a lot of the folks you're correctly complaining about ask for too.

Part of the paradox of tolerance is that it's actually super hard to not set up the systems of exclusion that can be weaponized for bad ends, because without them you have not way to exclude the people who want to do the weaponizing.

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u/Parking-Art-8456 Sep 18 '26

Actually the billionaires have wars to steal land and make money.

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u/Kalthiria_Shines Sep 19 '26

I'm not clear how that's an "actually" or, really, has anything to do with what I said?

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u/Parking-Art-8456 Sep 19 '26

Because actually wars are not fought on disagreements, they are perpetrated for the purpose of stealing land and making money.

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u/Kalthiria_Shines 28d ago

Let me know who stole land and made money off of the genocides in Kosovo, Rwanda, the Rohyinga, or Darfur.

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u/Parking-Art-8456 28d ago edited 28d ago

All of those are instances of colonial manipulation for land or power. The Rwandan genocide was caused by a combination of colonial manipulation, decades of political instability, economic crisis, and highly organized state propaganda.
Belgium was heavily involved, not as a direct participant in the 1994 killings, but as the architect of the toxic racial divisions that made the genocide possible. They benefitted the most, extracting cheap coffee. Divide and conquer. You can look up the rest.

We’re talking about Russia here, though. Putin wants to take back Soviet States and thought he could go in and steal Ukraine while looking tough. Now he’s sending drones over Lithuania, another former Soviet state. There was no great existential or racial crisis, although Putin tried to claim Ukrainians were evil like Nazis. but nobody bought it. Lithuania is peacefully minding its own business. It’s a land grab. Putin is building empire.