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annadpk t1_iubqnxc wrote
Reply to comment by patrick66 in Navy investigates submarine sex harassment claims - BBC News by MisterMovie50
Booze makes it much worse
>Louise - not her real name - spent several months at sea on board Royal Navy warships and says sexual harassment is rife in the navy because it is "normalised".
"It's like they're all living in a parallel universe out there," she tells the BBC.
"The night before they hit shore - unless they are on duty - they drink ridiculous amounts."
Louise, who is in her 40s, sees alcohol as a key trigger to the unacceptable behaviour she experienced during her stints on board two ships in 2019 and 2020.
The first step the Royal Navy needs to do is to ban booze. Unfortunately, it's not going to be easy. First, they have difficulty recruiting people, especially for the submarine service. Banning booze is only going to make it more difficult.
Trying to solve the problem while you don't ban booze, is like trying to push a car uphill.
annadpk t1_iublbhq wrote
As the article says, it's connected to booze.
annadpk t1_iudznpr wrote
Reply to Ukraine says Iran’s help for Russia should push Israel out of neutral stance by Lahampsink
It won't. Israel survived this long because it put its interest first. From a foreign policy perspective, there is little gain. What has Ukraine done for Israel?
Secondly, domestically the Israeli government is too divided. Moreover, there are a lot of pro-Russian voices in Israel.
>Scott Lasensky, an Obama administration State Department official who is now a professor of Israel studies at the University of Maryland, said Israelis are predisposed to viewing Putin kindly because of his philosemitism — a friendliness toward Jews that upends centuries of antisemitic hostility from the tsars and then the Soviets.
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>He recalled Putin visiting Israel in 2014, and meeting with his German language tutor, a Jewish woman who emigrated to Israel. (Putin would have needed German as a KGB officer stationed in East Germany.) “They wowed Putin,” Lasensky said of the Israeli government.
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>“It’s a different kind of relationship, and they’ve kept it on the warm side,” Lasensky said, noting that Russia allows Israelis visa-free travel, which the United States does not.
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>Notably, in 2014, when the US spurred a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, Israel absented itself, breaking its practice of voting with the US even on the most obscure issues.