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  • Come again? I am saying "isn't earmarked for the federal government" and you come up with a fact check saying that it is not earmarked for military use. Which is the same thing.

    Also, you are comparing the share of the military in the federal government's energy usage. The government's energy usage is largely electricity, not oil-based, while for the military it is the inverse. Also, the military consumes oil outside of the US economy: the oil consumption of an US Air Force base in say Spain is part of the Spanish economy, not of the US economy. Or at least, the overseas bases consumption will not be pulled from the US strategic oil reserves.

    So it is all orthogonal to the US strategic oil reserves what the US military's share in energy consumption of the US Federal Government is.

  • Cuz the US strategic oil reserve isn't earmarked for the federal government and the share of the military energy usage in the federal energy usage is entirely meaningless tot the oil consumption of the US economy.

  • Heh, as a European, that is pretty spot on.

  • To me it fundamentally reads like "Maduro is illegitimate" equals -5 and what the US is doing is violating international norms (yes, we still are pretending those exist) and that equals -3, and they are both negatives. But now we are arguing perception, which may be less than useful.

  • In between all the tankie Sputnik and RT posts here? Yes, because it suggests that she effectively legitimised it while she went out of her way not to do so is misrepresenting it.

  • Weaseling is what diplomats get paid for. So, le meh.

  • Nope, Russia actually prosecuted Russians for calling their "Special Military Operation" a war.

  • It is wrong in the sense that merely bringing up the need to adhere to international law and non-violence is, in that context, the same thing as saying this is illegitimate.

  • Because both the EU's internal dynamics and its current dependency on the USA does not allow for speaking more clearly than this. This is about as good as it gets. Not a pretty sight on form, on substance she basically is treating them pretty similar. Am more livid on Von der Leyen preventing to call out Israel on its ongoing genocide than on this one.

  • If we are going for the Carl Schmitt approach, then yes, China's constitution has been amended legitimately. As for Ukraine, it is difficult to see how that country should not been under martial law since it has been in a hot war since early 2022. Also, how do you organise free and open elections in the territories that are being occupied by the imperialist aggressor Russia?

  • "Under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint."

    Which is diplomat-speak for "can you please knock it off?"

  • Can we not have disinformation posts like these? Kallas' response could have been stronger, correct, but she certainly implied that it was an illegitimate invasion.

  • Which is why there is no link to the Nazi Bar, but to an alternative front-end to it.

  • Minecraft @lemmy.world

    Mojang posting 2025 Minecraft stats on the website formerly known as Twitter

    www.windowscentral.com /gaming/minecraft/minecraft-end-of-year-stats-2025
  • Thank you for taking the time to point this out, I had clearly overlooked it.

  • Would this be the place to ask for the overview of communities to default to the subscribed ones?

  • That is pretty impressive. Now if only a New Vegas remaster would become available...

  • Their properties make them a great fit for grid storage, so even if they never become a thing in the automotive world, they still can become a hit.

  • You can order So-Ion cells on AliExpress since a year or so, that sounds reasonably mass-market to me.

  • Solarpunk Farming @slrpnk.net

    New Zealand cherry grower has gone almost completely solar (but not punk)