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by aguaviva 2y ago
Part of the political circus here is around the definition of occupation. Not just the ICC but the UN as a whole, and the EU consider Gaza to be occupied due to the fact that it controls air and maritime space, along with all 7 border cro
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Looks much more like a case of a guilty Afghan framing an innocent Afghan for a crime, than a case of the US flipping coins in order to kidnap civilians 'at random'. You're being far too charitable to the occupying forces.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except they were in a very similar situation not too long ago of course, in a country called Afghanistan. In which their leadership ultimately chose to do the only right and pragmatic thing. Rather than bleed the country's resources
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The defender holds the line until it collapses because they've exhausted manpower and weapons. Or the aggressor gives up because the cost is simply too high, and the whole thing was completely optional for them to begin with, anyway.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
From what I know of the guy, I can't see mentioning the two in the same sentence. Hersh's (good) works were truly monumental. I'm not aware of anything that Maté has brought to the table that would be even remotely comparabl
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I said absolutely nothing about its "infallible nobility", of course. Or even implying that sentiment.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
As a commander in chief of the IDF, what would have you done differently? Publically resign, denouncing my government's decades of bungling, hardheadedness and general heartlessness in the face of the situation that it has, in the sc
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In 1991 the Budapest agreement had Ukraine relinquish its nukes in exchange for security guarantees from both Russia and the US, amongst others. Actually the Budapest Memorandum (from 1994, not 1991) explicitly avoided any mention of secu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The issue here is that you're shifting the goalposts. Here's a boiled-down transcript what just transpired between yourself and the other commenter: You: NATO seeks to deploy missiles within 7 minutes flight time of Russia&#
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, it's just a different flavor of colonization. Plenty of other empires have attempted to assimilate the colonized population to some degree. It's not even an unusual aspect of colonization; historically it's been a ubiqui
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, Putin's decision to launch the full-scale invasion in 2022 is what "got us" the war in Ukraine right now. None of his claimed grievances in regard to the CFE Treaty amount to casus belli , by any rational metric. And th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The effectiveness, and moreover the underlying sincerity of these "warnings" have been widely and severely criticized. Meanwhile, the IDF has gone right on bombing people even when they went to areas they were told would be &quot
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Hated Poles, Jews, French, Germans - anyone not Russian. But that does not make one a Nazi. Thinking that it does dilutes the discussion.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The thing is, the term "Semite" is (except in very archaic contexts) pretty much dictionary-only . It exists, and has semantic validity. But it does not in any way describe a group that has ever had any kind of common identity.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
How many years of war occurred between the coup-government of Ukraine and the territory of Donbass before Russia invaded? There was no coup d'état. Simply put - it's a false narrative.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
One can quibble about the technical definition of genocide, or the degree of intent on the part of the perpetrators. But I don't see how one can say that 40,000+ largely civilian deaths (including around 15k women, minors and elderly)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Using it to describe Israels effort to provide infrastructure, jobs, healthcare etc in the preceding decades is just insultingly wrong. No contradiction there. It's perfectly possible for the State of Israel to be nakedly and unapolo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In regard to Korea -- it was also about the principle of maintaining recognized borders, and their involiability. The UN was also instrumental in bringing the conflict to an end (along with Stalin's death and the general state of exha
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And yet - we have the fact that (unlike that other war you are making a false analogy to) at their current rates of "winning" it will take them literally decades to reach Kyiv. Which is suggestive of some form of difficulties with
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by aguaviva 2y ago
We all get along just fine here, thank you. And the fact that throwback opinions like yours (on this matter) are broadly and deeply discouraged, I find quite enjoyable, also.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm serious, too. But given the wildly untenable opinion statement of yours that this now long-flagged thread started off with -- and the obvious irrelevance of any economic performance measures to the Russo-Ukraine conflict -- we see
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except I'm not making that portrayal.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Some will say that it existed for a brief moment in the 90s-2000s. So were the Nuremberg Trials not an instance of the RBWO? (And all the UN mediations in e.g. Palestine, Korea, etc. from its very founding)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not serious to suggest that Israel did not supply any food or water to the Palestinians when in fact it supplied plenty. After sufficient arm-twisting from the Biden administration, it did. But until that point - it withheld. A
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Then don't engage. But if you do respond, but you ignore an obvious key question that was asked -- then by any standard of discourse -- you're pulling a dodge.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The war is against Hamas not against Palestinians Of course it's not against the Palestinians, per se. It's a war against their continued presence on portions of Greater Israel that his party and his people would like to further
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Crimes against humanity/war crimes are on different scale. You're getting way too cerebral for this thread. The people who say "they're all equally guilty" don't care about such considerations. They're
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Treating the Yeltsin and Putin administrations as though they are the same I'm not, and you're completely misreading me if you think that's what I'm saying.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So it's not "No countries in Latin America", then. And if we're going to use your dataset to extrapolate anything: probably half of them will enforce the warrant. More substantially: I don't see where you're g

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