To be fair this is how I would play Crusader Kings III in real life if I was a psychopath.

…you know, now that I type that out, it doesn’t really feel like it rationalizes doing this to real human beings, weird.

This is spiralling out of control so fast.

One might argue that is one of the primary strategic goals of this attack, to with vigor fracture any kind of foreign policy unity Europe could develop with regards to Israel, The US or Russia, thus allowing domestic fuckery with rightwing movements within specific European countries to individually derail efforts to mitigate the behavior of Russia, Israel and the US.

If things get more ethical than might makes right than Russia, Israel and the US stand to lose massively in the geopolitical sphere, this is an attempt to shatter these ideas in our minds so that military empires can get back to killing without having to even bother trying to justify it.

Cynical times indeed

After seven EU countries in a row failed to broker an EU Member State position on the controversial CSA Regulation, in late 2025, the government of Denmark pulled off what had previously seemed near-impossible.

One camp of countries, including Denmark themselves, had been fiercely pushing for mandatory scanning of private messages at scale, including in encrypted environments. Another camp, spearheaded by countries including Poland, Czechia and the Netherlands, was boldly pushing in the other direction. These countries rightly urged their peers not to let the important goal of this law be used as justification to implement mass surveillance or undermine the protections offered by end-to-end encryption.

That’s why on November 13 2025, Denmark’s proposal to eliminate forced detection entirely, and add protections for encrypted communications, came as such a surprise. Could it really be that after so many years of deeply polarised debates, EU government leaders have finally agreed that even when pursuing the most important societal goals (like protecting children), basic fundamental rights, constitutional protections and technical reality still apply? Did the citizen campaign FightChatControl.eu play a role? And how has this been possible even though Germany, previously a data protection champion, reportedly removed its long-running opposition to “chat

Fuck AI