VictorPath

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by VictorPath 5y ago
> From 1937 to 1945, there were 23 battles where both sides employed at least a regiment each. Communist guerilla armies tend not to deploy regiments regularly. Mao discusses this in "On Guerilla Warfare". The NLF in Vietnam,
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> Uncontacted tribes in other parts of the world (e.g. the Sentinelese) are famously violent. In the Amazon loggers and miners, often illegally, encroach on indigenous areas and kill members of the hunter-gatherer bands. Yes, the bands
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> Australian Aboriginals, and they would beat the living shit out of the lower-status members of their society As I said, there are societies where women gather berries and men hunt. There aren't really "lower status members&q
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It depends how groups are defined. Agriculture is a precondition for a society divided into classes (for social, not practical reasons). Groups from the beginning of human behavioral modernity to the rise of agricultural slave empires in S
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> If the society has no money, there's going to be a whole lot of punishment going on The mostly uncontacted hunter-gatherer bands in the Amazon jungle have no money, and not much punishment. Men all go out and hunt. If they are o
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Just in Europe, a number of countries have protested the US government coming in without consent and kidnapping people, so the answer is no.
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China has been facing a series of Uighur terrorist attacks. The US faced one day of attacks loosely related to Muslims living on the western border of Xinjiang, and the US just had a (partial!) withdrawal from there this month after 20 yea
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> Defense spending amounted to $714 billion in FY 2020—and is expected to increase to $733 billion in FY 2021. A soldier whose leg was blown up in Afghanistan and is still in a hospital - is not part of that $714-733 billion. So the US
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https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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> The UK government's been half-heartedly trying to offload Gibraltar for decades now, but the local populace have pretty much unanimously set against any such effort This is the exact same bull the English say for why they have arm
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When Russia invaded Crimea, there were still British red coats stationed in New York City. The Russian military has been there ever since. Speaking of the British empire, only an upper middle class westerner can nod their head when they se
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> this benefits "the rich" is so far as "the rich" are shareholders of these companies The rich are the shareholders of companies. According to the Department of Labor's survey of consumer finances, the wealthi
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The retired "engineer" can talk about engineering, he just can't present expert witness in a trial. Also, he was never licensed as an engineer, it's not as if his engineering license lapsed after testimony. You can throw