I’m sorry, am I supposed to sympathize with these despicable people?
If anything about that story is sad, it’s that he escaped.
Frankly, I would be shocked if at minimum of 95% of the “UK expats” who moved to Dubai to “make their fortune”, don’t deserve torture.
Evil people, doing evil things, in an evil place, and I should feel what for them now? Sympathy? Get fucked.
The TVs you buy at Costco or Walmart aren’t meant to be run 24/7 365. They never have been.
He should have said commerical displays, which are basically TV’s rated for long continuous use e.g. digital signage.
I haven’t dealt with them in some time, but I would imagine many, if not most, do not include consumer smart tv features, although they probably have other embedded smart tech to help with stuff like signage.
That headline doesn’t do it justice.
Like everyone was involved in it, from the guides to the hospitals.
It’s honestly fucking wild that a scam with that many individuals could go on for that long.
Russia has banned them, sort of.
Although I don’t think their methods would work here, or rather, I don’t think they could grab the kind of power necessary.
Russia now has regional internet blackouts, were they effectively only allow a small number of white listed sites to be accessible.
So if you you literally cannot reach the VPN servers because only a handful of Russian government websites, preferred businesses, and UK banks (oligarchs gotta oligarch) are whitelisted, well then you banned VPNs, again, sort of.
They did roll out a government approved VPN for specific approved individuals and use cases, to a get around those blackouts…so that’s something.
It’s the Italian bureaucracy, I think it’s safe to assume pettiness is the chief motivating factor here.
I’ll take it, don’t get me wrong, but let’s not get it twisted.
It hard to replace currency with a speculative commodity.
Do you think this is the first person that this particular detective has tried to railroad because they were too lazy to do any real work?
I would be shocked if every single one of his previous cases weren’t full of half-truths, lies, and just generally sloppy work.
I don’t disagree with your premise, because it is in Ukraine’s interest to push this idea as far and loud as possible.
But, I think if you read between the lines on how Ukraine is communicating their assessment on the different implications for how many times Russians take satellite photos, it sounds like the Ukrainians either have some sort of system access to Russian satellite imaging, communication intercepts, or a human source.
Of course they could just be speaking confidently about the number of images taken to advance their own goals, with no actual intelligence behind it, but I don’t think he’d put himself in that position.
But, who knows? You know as much as I do.
Nothing like some new dog lore to start the day with.
Some of the only people less trustworthy than Trump, are that Pakistani military leadership, and they’re often supplicant to America.
So yeah, I don’t think anyone in the region is bullish on any sort of peace process led by Pakistan, that Trump has to sign off on.
50/50 they will just drone strike the Iranian negotiators, as America and Israel have done many times before.
So we’re simping for Orban now?
Garbage source for a garbage story that’s trying to provide political cover for a garbage human being.
I see this more as a PR strategy than anything else.
Allies or enemies, oil is a global market, and every ship they let through removes just a little bit of pressure from the global economy, which is their only leverage.
Each ship obviously means a great deal for the country receiving it, so I don’t want to minimize that gesture, but I’m skeptical at how many they can plausibly let transit the straight, before it becomes counterproductive to their war aims.
Because everyone implicated here isn’t just still in power, they’ve been in power for a long time.
Lest we forget that the Biden administration had these files as well. Why do you think they didn’t pursue them?
This isn’t the 1980s.
Yes, the Petrodollar is an important part of American hegemony, but it’s not load-bearing like it once was. It’s role in propping up the dollar has been replaced by the globalized financial markets.
So yeah, it would not be good for American power, but it would not cripple it by any stretch.
At no point that did I say that the killing of the girls was a strategic move to demoralize the IRGC.
And I remain dumbfounded as to why people keep giving the benefit of the doubt to Trump and Hegseth.
I’m not saying it was a strategic choice, I’m saying I could easily see Pete being a sadist who got off on killing those schoolgirls, who approved the strike package based on that alone, and that’s before you even consider his crusades and killing Muslims fetishes.
In that scenario the fact that they are the children of IRGC members just gives him an excuse to rationalize his choice to pleasure himself with their blood.
Again, I don’t know that’s what happened, but I know it’s just as likely as it being an “oppsie” when the man in charge of the Pentagon is a known abuser of women, in addition to being a drunk moron ultra Zionist Christian nationalist with crusader tattoos.
I genuinely don’t know why you’re giving them the benefit of the doubt.
None of us here knows the truth, and I would posit that it’s just as likely, if not more likely, that that school was targeted intentionally, as it was used for the children of IRGC officers.
I think so far I’ve only seen these claims made in Turkish media, but I hope it’s true.
There are no happy endings here, but if the pedophiles and slave traders who run the GCC are made to truly suffer for their support of Donald Trump, I won’t be displeased.
Not my top comment and the guy you were responding to is a fucking tool.
But broken clocks and all that.
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