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by aguaviva 2y ago
What I really find it puzzling that you might have some good arguments to the peaceful nature of the Arabs, that they were all loving and caring. It really quite difficult to discern what benefit you might see in presenting such an obviou
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by aguaviva 2y ago
CIA training paramilitaries against Russia/USSR In the case of Ukraine -- OSS training of partisan forces against the Wehrmacht would be an infinitely closer analogy. The thing is, you seem to assume axiomatically that the CIA's
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by aguaviva 2y ago
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Try a substantive response, please.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You could argue Brzezinski and CIA arming the mujahideen was also “purely defensive”, or Soviets arming the PLO a decade earlier was “purely defensive”. One could, but it'd be silly as you already know, and no one is doing that. Henc
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by aguaviva 2y ago
As of 13 May 2024, the U.N. has reported that the 35,000 who have died in the conflict includes 7,797 minors, 4,959 women and 1,924 elderly[52] with confirmed identities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_th
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Geopolitics often is quite nuts. But if you choose to applaud or legitimize this insanity -- that's on you.
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China has very legitimate reasons to go to war over the US's island chain policy as they are reliant on imported oil Though now that I do parse the second half of what you're saying - this is completely nuts of course, and just
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The French military was in Algeria from 1830-1962. Does that mean they can go back and occupy it anytime they want to?
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Decontamination of landfill waste leads to increase in toxic chemicals(theguardian.com)
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Korean cinema in 'precarious period' due to Netflix, says Jang Joon-hwan(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It would be terrible if it was impossible for us to let those people go. About half the people on this thread seem to be misreading that sentence. It's very clear that "just cause" includes cases of low performance. So no
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We're also done with whataboutism, and nonsense accusations of antisemitism.
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The U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada were undeniably created through colonialism. Live with it. And genocide, slavery and a whole host of other evils. That doesn't mean we need to accept those evils when they're happenin
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by aguaviva 2y ago
(1) He fails to read Putin's colonial attitude toward Ukraine, and is way too eager to accept the regime's stated NATO encroachment position at face value (rather than for the foil that it is). (2) Dualism -- he's obsessed wi
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Actually there were no guarantees in that agreement, and that was one its major shortcomings.
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"through" → "threw"
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It isn't so much about outright rejecting the regime's stated rationale -- but simply not outright accepting its statements at face value, as many people seem overly ready and willing to do. As if they're forgotten that, i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Those do seem to be Putin's primary motivations. Though it's likely he sees access to resources (lithium, natural gas) as "gravy" on top of these concerns.
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Ah yes, yet another person who says ... Absolutely no one here is saying that.
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Russia is similarly worried about the expansive flatland past the Dnipro river. Except it's not - its current regime just pretends to be, for internal and external propaganda purposes. Ditto for NATO encroachment. It's just a
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You can decide that that's the ending you'd like to have. But I don't see a point in pretending that it would be "best for Ukraine", or rule of law in the international sphere generally. Russian forces pushed back
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by aguaviva 2y ago
A bare minimum requirement (to have any sense of sanity in the world after this is all over, or at least comes to some kind of a pause) is that (1) Russia will never be granted formal sovereignty over the territories it claims, and (2) al
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It includes deportation of pro-Russians. Not of "pro-Russians", but of individuals who came to live in the country illegally after 2014. It's hard to see why anyone should see a problem with that.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Russian troops were in the Crimea back when British redcoats were stationed in New York City, so I don't know exactly when this "seizure" of the Crimea by Russia is supposed to have happened. So if the Redcoats were to come
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Right - Bush "pressed for" Ukraine's membership, but he wasn't successful . And in fact Putin had executed (what he should have seen as) a successful containment strategy by that date, via purely diplomatic means. San
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Since Bush was the one to push them into NATO back in 2008 when the Ukrainian public strongly opposed NATO membership until 2014, but he worked with Yuschenko to do it anyway. Except he did not "push them into NATO in 2008". 20
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Again, pointing out that you're off by 10x isn't "nitpicking", and that wasn't the only matter of concern in regard to issues of basic factual integrity (and logical coherence) of the stuff you're saying. We d
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Pointless distinction and missing the forest for the trees. Don't know what to tell you, but you were literally off by a solid order of magnitude with the "1000 military bases abroad" figure, which means you were also wrong
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Given its support for the Khmer Rouge, its invasion of Vietnam, its tacit support of the aggression against Ukraine, and its menacing actions against the Philippines, and its intimidation of expats abroad (nevermind what it threatens to do

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