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Whoever wins is who was retroactively right. That's definitely a very Kissingerian way of looking at things. But if it appeals to you, I guess you're entitled

• rbanffy 2y ago
  We have no power to force a stop to this conflict and nobody responsible will ever be prosecuted. It is a very Kissingerian world and I don’t like it, but I was not consulted before being born on it. In any case, weapon designers must be glad their stuff is getting tested and the feedback allows those weapons to be improved.
  • aguaviva 2y ago
    I invite you to consider the possibility that, although individually we are powerless -- collectively and in an emergent fashion, we very much do create the reality of the world we live in (as concerns human and social constructs at least). So if enough people are resigned to the idea that fascism (or its brother in terms of international relations -- the idea that the world is intrinsically amoral, and no one is ever really held to account for anything) is "just the way the world works" -- sooner or later, that's the system they'll be living under. And in fact, this is one of the core mechanisms by which such oppressive systems take hold and gains their legs. In more succinct terms (to the point of sounding trite): Another world is possible.