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by aguaviva 2y ago
This is somewhat the act of a madman, but it's a response to NATO continually breaking promises. It's not, actually. The history around this is widely misunderstood. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If toxic windbags like Musk are turned off by the Left/Progressives/Democrats -- that actually speaks quite favorably of the latter.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
(thankfully we have negligible Muslim population here in Baltics) Thankfully we have a negligible number of people who think like you do, where I live.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Because it's written here ... Pointing to a footnote that explodes into 15 other footnotes. Meaning none of them actually apply.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Assume that 100 % of the time when someone speaks of GDP, they're speaking of GDP at purchasing power parity per capita. And you can assume that 100 % of the time when someone speaks of the size of their gas tank, they're really
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Consider that most of the country shifted Right/Republican this election Actually it was more like about a 4 percent shift. Think about it.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
74 countries across the two regions, last we checked. You've got 72 to go.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm looking at the bullet lists for 2023-2024, whereas it seems you may be looking at the table of all post-2022 visits (several of which were before the warrant was issued).
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Bear in mind that this has no bearing on the point under discussion.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No countries in Africa and Latin America would enforce the ICC arrest request for Putin. That's your straight-up speculation. Meanwhile, the fact that he hasn't visited any of those countries -- suggests he knows better.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I stand corrected: "The fact that he's only been able to visit a relative handful of countries -- nearly all of which were traditional Cold War allies (and several of these being current or former vassal states) -- indicates that,
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russia is attempting to impose a colonial occupation on Ukraine. Israel has maintained an explicitly colonial occupation on the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and a strategic occupation of Gaza (no longer involving settlement, but for the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Oh wait, South Africa is just one country. In a great many other countries, including nearly all Western countries, the warrant is still in effect. And even in the South African case: the government's decision was considered quite ten
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The fact that it's the only country he's been able to visit since the warrant was issued (aside from North Korea) indicates that, by and large -- it's working as intended.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
For example imposing sanctions on Russia does not have basis in international law, Of course it does. Every country is free to choose which countries it does business with.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russians deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Russian territory, You're playing word games here to avoid acknowledging the commenter's perfectly valid point, and it's really quite silly.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
When your first attempt at dropping a random statistic gets blown out of the water -- try shifting the goalposts.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm more "glass half-full" than you are on Ukraine's chances of avoiding a worst-case outcome (assuming support continues, even at roughly current funding levels). And as far as the interests of the US are concerned: gu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I think it's about Ukraine, simply -- not Trump.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not so much how much they "can withstand" (under the absolute worst of circumstances), as opposed to how much they are wiling to withstand given that, on a certain level, most of them have to understand that the war is
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But the article itself addresses only the context of ATACMS. Not whether the US is "dictating what can and cannot happen in the war" generally. Either way -- according the definition in Wikipedia, it is a proxy because one side i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I appreciate the detailed and thoughtful follow-up. However, your final response ("As for whether ...") does seem to be largely avoiding the question it addresses. If we may try again: "But if the war does end with paramet
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If that is still hard for you to understand, ... Howabout saying "If it helps, ..." instead.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Which cements that promise as a popular American mandate Do you think the folks who voted for him have a reasonable understanding of what is likely to happen on the ground (and its significance outside the US) after that "mandate&quo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So by effectively promising to largely validate Putin's claimed grievances and war spoils (via his promised "deal") -- do you think the incoming US president will be acting in favor of, or against "the very notion of pea
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by aguaviva 2y ago
America hasn't arbitrarily invaded any country since the Philippines. Grotesquely and profoundly false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Or they know the history all too well.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But Mearsheimer's arguments are convincing. They're not all, and are in fact easily debunked. One just needs to read between the lines a little bit. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197501 We ma
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Yup - he's a genuine tragedy.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Captured, no. Never estimate the human potential for naivete self-deception. What we do know is that they've been in close contact, and that he is sincerely grateful to them: In John Mearsheimer's 2023 book "How States

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