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I find it interesting that your comment centers around principles and justice. There are thousands of young people who are dying in trenches and blown to pieces
by leobg 10mo ago
I find it interesting that your comment centers around principles and justice. There are thousands of young people who are dying in trenches and blown to pieces by drones each week, and have been for the past three years. You don’t even mention them.
- madspindel 10mo agoYes, let's never forget that Russia is a terrorist state.
- watwut 10mo agoPerfect solution is Russia stops sending them there and orders them to go home. Ukrainian one then remain home. And considering Russia does not intend to stop expansion, absent pressure on Russia, they will be eventually dying in Germany.
- burnt-resistor 10mo ago[flagged]
- rightbyte 10mo agoThere are a lot of romantics. I wonder if the tone was the same during the 1WW. It is silly.
- derelicta 10mo agoWarsluts do not tend to be the one dying in those said wars.
- AnimalMuppet 10mo agoWell, see, we learned nearly a century ago that when someone aggressively expands and you give in to them to maintain "peace in our time", you don't get peace for very long. You wind up with more dead bodies, not less. Fighting when it's needed leads to more dead this week than abject surrender would cause, but if history is any guide, it leads to fewer dead bodies this decade.
- rightbyte 10mo ago"Someone"? Are you alluding to NATO or Russia here in the present? Hard to tell.
- ben_w 10mo ago"peace in our time" is a famous quote, nearly a century ago: https://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/30-september/chamberlain-declares-peace-in-our-time https://www.history.co.uk/this-day-in-history/30-september/c... What AnimalMuppet shows with the failure of "peace in our time" is how speaking softly only works in combination with a big stick, to paraphrase a different politician from a different continent around a generation earlier than "peace in our time".
- rightbyte 10mo agoYes I know. The question is who they aimed at in the current day context.
- leobg 10mo agoWrong lesson from history. Go a bit further back. WW1. It’s easy to talk about “never appease an aggressor” when its someone else’s kid. Now it’s a story arch. Good vs evil. Entertainment! Like sports. You pick your team. But from the comfort of your tv, of course.
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