Assembly is a way of writing machine code, but with words and hexideci numbers instead of 1s and 0s and comments/white space, it’s barely a language, from the 40s.

COBOL is a compiled language from the 60s. The compiler turns the somewhat human-readable code into assembly the computer can read.

Also assembly is even older than COBOL.

as far as I am aware.

The reason you aren’t aware of dissent is that Zelenskyy banned rival parties, took control of media outlets, and passed a law that makes opposing the war or supporting any territorial concessions imprisonable offense, which has been used against political activists.

To be clear, Russia does the same things. The point isn’t to support the Russian or Ukrainian government, only that the US’s actions are opposed to the interests of the Ukrainian people.

Yes, when they’re actually fighting for their own future instead of which bourgeoisie faction will exploit them. Revolutionary and anti-colonial wars tend to be extremely popular with the populace.

Do you think average Ukrainians wanted to be drafted to fight America’s war?

Do I think it is better for a nation or a people to be freed from being ruled by a dictator

Except the US has no interest in freeing the people, hence why we give most dictators the weapons they use to keep their people down. We have interest in their resources and labor being cheap, which dictates our foreign policy.

The US doesn’t want a Ukraine that serves the needs of the people, we want a Ukraine with low wages, no social programs, whose assets and resources are owned by western billionaires, and whose people can be sacrificed to further imperialist goals.

You can look at any other country we’ve “freed” in the last 50 years for comparison.

The prisoner appears to be hooked up to mains power in the high res version of that photo.

Lets examine the evidence of history:

Do you think the people of Palestine are better off because of the US’s actions? Do you think the people of Syria are better off because of the US’s actions? Do you think the people of Libya are better off because of the US’s actions? Do you think the people of Yemen are better off because of the US’s actions? Do you think the people of Somalia are better off because of the US’s actions? Do you think the people of Afghanistan are better off because of the US’s actions? Do you think the people of Iraq are better off because of the US’s actions?

And that’s just in the last decade, and I know I missed a few. Do you really think Lucy is going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time?

America is not acting to help the people of Ukraine, we supported the right-wing throughout the coup so we could have a hostile state on Russia’s border so the vultures can eat their fill as both countries are bled dry. Hence why Ukraine was required to sell off state assets to foreigners for pennies on the dollar, accept massive loans, give up mineral rights, lower the draft age, etc. Russia aren’t the good guys, but the US’s actions have resulted in a scenario infinitely worse for the Ukrainian people.

So is there any particular military history in the last 50 years you want to talk about? The invasion of Panama? Granada? Bombing Yugoslavia? Targeting Iraq’s infrastructure during the gulf war, then imposing sanctions estimated to have caused a million excess deaths, mostly of children? Bombing a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan? Iraq II? Arming the groups that would become ISIS and Al Nusra?

The kicker? They’re German.

The US is not NATO

It kinda is tho. It was set up by the US to counter the Warsaw pact and prey upon neutral countries, as Blinken put it “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu”. This is evidenced by every single NATO action being in the US’s interest.

Especially now with Trump in daddy Putins pocket.

As funny as it would be for Trump to dismantle NATO, his only issue with it is that it doesn’t do enough imperialism.

In OP are images of what NATO, an organization that has never fought a defensive war in its entire existence, calls defense.

The first picture is an apartment block getting leveled.

The second one is a man at Abu Gharib being electrocuted with mains power, where thousands of prisoners, mostly picked up for petty crimes or detained without trial met worse fates, including worse torture, rape, and murder.

The third is a child who managed to tear her clothes off after the US dropped napalm on them as they fled their village, but was burnt badly enough she had to spend 14 months in the hospital. She was one of the lucky ones.

The fourth is the second atomic bomb the US dropped on a civilian population.

From what perspective is murdering hundreds (hundreds of thousands in the case of Nagasaki) of civilians just trying to live their lives on the other side of the planet acts of self-defense?

Defense, in the same way the pictures in OP were defense.

they began launching rockets at Israel on October 19th.

Good. Everyone should be launching rockets at the country enacting a genocide.

My point is that they aren’t risking their lives to enforce a blockade at random or because they’re “terrorists”, they are doing this in response to Israel’s genocide, this is why they stopped when Israel stopped, and resumed when Israel resumed, and this is what they’ve been saying the whole time.

To stop the response to Israel, we should stop Israel.

This is why the leak because people are talking about it which can be covered up and denied by the shitlords and not the actual attack, which is unjustifiable.

Except Biden did the same thing, for months, before packing up because all they were able to do was murder a bunch of civilians while spending millions of dollars to shoot down each 200 dollar drone they launched, and nobody except for the left cared.

They began the blockade weeks after the October 7th

That’s a lie. They hijacked their first ship on November 19th.

They’re enacting the blockade because they’re terrorists

You see, Yemeni culture requires them to be terrorists, block ships of Israel’s allies, and kick puppies. They don’t do it for any particular reason, they’re just born hating your freedom and being mind-controlled by other freedom haters. Tragic really, but the only way to help them is to indiscriminately level entire apartment blocks.

Russia is also Israel’s biggest supplier of oil.

Like America, if they didn’t want their tankers attacked, they shouldn’t be facilitating genocide.

You already know were enacting the blockade because of the genocide, as proven by the fact that they stopped it when Israel agreed to the ceasefire, and resumed it when Israel resumed the genocide.

You already know the US does not bomb only Ansar Allah, the very texts in question mention that they leveled the guy’s girlfriend’s apartment building.

Fuck off with this bad faith horseshit.

A cubic centimeter is ~150th of a modern nuclear weapon’s core. U-235 production accounts for every single gram, plutonium is even stricter.