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by _djo_ 4y ago
It's still only Ukraine vs Russia, even if Ukraine is using weapons acquired from elsewhere and getting intelligence information from other countries. That's a pretty basic idea in international politics, having been developed ove
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by _djo_ 4y ago
None of that makes the US (or any other Ukrainian supplier) a legitimate target in terms of international law. Especially as they're nearly all defensive systems being used inside Ukrainian territory. We've established this preced
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by _djo_ 5y ago
For those asking why the UN is saying "maybe", it's because the High Commissioner for Human Rights is not allowed to make the legal determination about whether a country or any entities have committed a crime against humanity
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Not sure if it's intentional, probably not, but mealie is also the South African colloquial word for corn. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mealie
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s not “afraid to fight”, it’s afraid of kickstarting WWIII and an escalation that might go nuclear. Nothing cowardly about that.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
That may be so, but it wasn’t the question the OP asked, which was about whether NATO was doing to Russian airspace what Russia has so often done to NATO airspace. In your response you wrongly asserted that was the case and you did so by co
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by _djo_ 5y ago
As I said, most European countries don't have an ADIZ, and a number of those reported cases are of actual violations of national airspace. Not ADIZs. I agree that media reports that mistake the Taiwanese ADIZ for airspace are wrong and
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The US & allied invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11 is a pretty non-controversial case of legitimate self defence amongst international law scholars. There are some contrarians who dispute it, but it's not a mainstream view. Th
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by _djo_ 5y ago
An ADIZ has no legal basis and is just international airspace, so no country is obliged to recognise it and no country may deny entry through one. Mixing up ADIZs with national airspace muddies the waters. Even if a number of those 300 occu
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The reports described above are almost all violations of actual territorial airspace, not ADIZs, including the recent Russian incursion into Swedish airspace. Most countries don't have an ADIZ at all, including most of Europe. In fact
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Nobody at the time denied that Austria was an occupied state. Which was perfectly reasonable given its position as having started WWII as part of Germany. Same reason Germany and Japan were both under allied control and occupation for a whi
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by _djo_ 5y ago
There are videos from multiple different media outlets showing ordinary civilian refugees being shelled. None are armed. Your claim makes no sense. Why would Ukraine want to hide soldiers in refugees leaving the country? Even if they did, t
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Don’t appeal to emotion. This isn’t about the relative value of people, but about this conflict being more likely to escalate into a much more serious global conflict. The same would be true of China invading Taiwan.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
1. He has in other talks, and he has used it as a way to explain away Russia's actions. As though they're an actor with no agency that can only react. 2. "NATO pushed" is deceptive framing. The countries that joined NATO
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Mearsheimer completely ignores the agency of small European countries and makes the classic IR mistake of assuming that what might be 'rational' behaviour for a state in a Realist sense is also correct behaviour. You can use Reali
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This exact scenario has been repeated with COVID vaccines too.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Sanctions played a major role in forcing Apartheid South Africa to the negotiating table regarding its military actions in Angola, giving Namibia independence, and starting negotiations with the ANC and other groups to end Apartheid. They w
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This one poses the most danger to us all, far more than tin-pot dictators elsewhere. It’s right to be prioritising this.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Thanks for this, again I stand corrected. I'm amazed that they were granted those trademarks. As I said, MLRS has become a very generic term and from the start it was a US Army name, not invented by Lockheed-Martin.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Huh, well I stand corrected. That is quite a bizarre trademark and I didn't expect it.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
It’s not, it’s a generic term. This is the M270 system which was developed in the 1970s and 1980s to meet the US Army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) requirement. It was just a way of naming the requirement, kind of like “JSF”, and i
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This is likely the result of two factors. First, families skipping scheduled vaccinations for their newborns out of fear of catching COVID-19 at clinics: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/tackling-malawis-fears-rou...
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The same place it’ll be now: Unable to substantively act because by design the five veto powers effectively neutered the ability of the UN to act against them. The US is just one of the five, the UK, France, Russia, and China are the others
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by _djo_ 5y ago
If a transitional government is UN-approved, meaning it even survived UNSC rounds without any of the five veto powers objecting, then it’s ridiculous to call it a ‘puppet’ government. The US does not control the UN.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
This is not a counter-point, this is an ad hominem attack (despite its protestation to the contrary) that doesn’t address any of the serious problems that Meyerowitz-Katz found with those studies. Problems severe enough to force retractions
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by _djo_ 5y ago
The US has a relatively weird structure where trusts are one of the best ways to meet the FAA's requirements for ownership while also hiding certain ownership details: https://www.hef.ru.nl/~pfk/aircraftGalleries&#
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by _djo_ 5y ago
I would think it’s the other way around: Important policy documents like this should be written in this format in order to minimise ambiguity and provide the space for detail. As a formal guidance memorandum this format also allows for each
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Thank you.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Ah, yeah, that’s the term I’m more familiar with. Thank you.
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by _djo_ 5y ago
Can you explain more about the 'turkey shoot' in brainstorming sessions, and the value it adds? It's not something I've heard about before.

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