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by _djo_ 2y ago
Agreed, Kosovo is the only actual NATO intervention of that sort. And agreed that it was neither unjustified nor ‘aggressive’.
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by _djo_ 2y ago
The invasion of Libya was fully authorised by the UNSC, and it was not conducted or approved solely by NATO. Libya was also already in a highly destructive civil war before the intervention, which is why it happened, so it’s not like they w
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No, the alternative liberal internationalist view is that the preservation of imperial-like spheres of influence and ironclad regional hegemonies is unfair, u democratic, and at odds with the rules-based trade-oriented order we’d like to se
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While parallel construction is usually dodgy as hell, it still requires that there be sufficient evidence obtainable through legal means to build a case. It's kind of like a journalist getting information off the record from a source.
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> China has been rightly condemned for "speaking" of invading Taiwan. What would you like the world to do for this "thought crime" given no invasion has occurred? Surround the country in military bases? We've do
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by _djo_ 2y ago
The US was rightly condemned for its invasion of Iraq, and more should have been done by the world’s nations to prevent it. We have that opportunity with China and Taiwan now, and letting it happen just because other major powers have done
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> None of my examples (except China) were from over a century ago, nor were they from before the United Nations (or League of Nations existed). I was referring specifically to the example you provided of US annexation of formerly Mexic
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So countries may only send their aircraft and ships along their own border now? Anyone is free to operate in international waters. And, yes, Chinese military ships do at times sail just outside US territorial waters to monitor naval exercis
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US ships and aircraft stay in international waters and airspace near China, or in the territorial waters and airspace of allies who give it permission. That includes the Taiwan strait. Allowing China to prevent US or other aircraft to opera
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To be fair, they’re a tiny team with a ton of things on their roadmap and limited time to do it all. It seems they’re taking it slow on core stuff that they really need to get right, because it can’t be changed later, while adopting pragmat
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by _djo_ 2y ago
I stand corrected, I had missed that news. Thank you. https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/news/2023/2023041201.html
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>To start: an army is not only there for military response but also for threat of attack and denying defense. So I don't really see your point here. Europe bent over since they are weaker strategically, not because they are doing t
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That’s mitigated a bit by the airflow implications of longer splitters, where a few extra cm might cost you more in drag or downforce reduction than you’d gain in a photo finish like this.
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> What would their options be? Their military is tiny compared to the US. Another data point is that they did sit by meekly when they had solid evidence that their leaders were taped by the US. Merkel, Chancellor of Germany at that time,
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>After the NorthStream was blown up by the US (they even announced it), which constitutes as the biggest act of industrial terrorism EVER, I do not know if I believe you that Russia is "more evil". While the US must be consid
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No, you're misunderstanding the situation. Companies can't legally refuse to provide information in the jurisdiction they're in some cases, especially when there's a court order. Every company is subject to someone'
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Raspberry Pi Ltd is wholly owned by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and profits from the company’s sales help fund the foundation’s work. It didn’t make sense to have the same person be head of both the foundation and the for-profit company, s
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> I think it’s fair to say that the covert illegal activities of the US government probably exceed that of any other country by any reasonable measure. Not even close, and I say this as a citizen of a developing country that has seen i
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by _djo_ 2y ago
I don’t see how the two are comparable. While Ranch Hand was indefensible and US leaders should have been prosecuted for it, the scale of it is minuscule compared to the ecological damage of the Four Pests campaign.
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I apologise for the snark, my frustration for the better of me. The point I’m trying to make is that I’ve been basing all my points on per capita emissions, not overall figures, and that China’s per capita figures are no longer much lowe
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by _djo_ 2y ago
Whether a country is a bad emitter is a factor of its total and per capita emissions. It has no inherent moral meaning, but it has serious implications for how we can slow down climate change. At current rates, China is going to be a larger
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What part of per capita are you not getting?
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They’re clearly not doing more than anyone given that their emissions rate per capita and as a proportion of industrial output keeps climbing. Claiming the US and EU ‘outsourced’ emissions to China is an overly simplistic view, and one that
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I’m saying that before very long China will emit more per capita than the US does too, because US emissions per capita keep falling while China’s keep skyrocketing. So, no, even when you take population into account China is a bad emitter
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Not quite to the same extent, or nearly as late. China's Four Pests campaign, for instance, ran from 1958 to 1962 and was ecologically disastrous. Meanwhile, in the US you already had strong conservationist movements starting up, leadi
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The US's per capita CO2 emissions have dropped by around 70% since 1990. It should've been a larger drop, to match that of the EU, but nonetheless it's a highly positive trend that also proved that per capita emissions can be
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China's most polluting industries aren't its high tech phone and car factories, which are generally fairly modern. It's the mass of mid-level factories that produce cheap items for the entire world, but predominantly for the
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However, the US's per capita CO2 level keeps decreasing, while China's is increasing at a rapid rate. It's already 60% of the US's level and at this rate will eclipse it in the next few years. So any solution to climate
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Do you really think that China would not have industrialised if not for Western companies? Nothing about China's history shows that that's remotely true. In fact, outsourcing was only possible because of the various industrial pla
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Maybe, but so what? If this enables people to have a few drinks after work in the evening and be fully sober for work the next day, I’m all for it. Also, anything that can rapidly break down alcohol in the body will help as a medical treatm

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