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by ericmay 1mo ago
And stand against Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and others? China isn’t capable of providing any security guarantees to Canada. What’s the point here besides pissing everyone off? It is a very poor diplomati
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The Canadians who think this or more is a good idea have lost their minds. Forget that China, an authoritarian regime that is doing things like routinely stealing secrets from western countries [1] and is focused on destroying European econ
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It’s ideologically related and, unfortunately with our McDonald’s level standards of art and culture it passes for something akin to artwork. You’ll find Flower Thrower at your local IKEA or hung in the bathroom of Chipotle. They wouldn’t b
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Blame the suburbs and communism - those are the two driving factors there. Suburbs: everything has to be standardized and made efficient for global supply chains. Private equity is just the mechanism to achieve that. Want better food and pr
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> Of Western Europe, one nation was party to the Budapest Memorandum. That one party is the UK. So what? The US and UK should go to war with Russia while, what, Europe does nothing? Not going to happen. Maybe the US and Uk shouldn’t have
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Wasn’t she only in that job for a year? Maybe she was doing a bad job. The current head of the BLS seems well qualified. Here are some select quotes from a NYT article [1]: “Erica Groshen, who was commissioner during the Obama administr
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> Can you honestly say with a straight face that you believe Jared Kushner is in Moscow negotiating in good faith with Putin with respect to Ukraine? I can't say anything other than what is officially reported. Everything else is a
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> The immediate reaction of the other parties was roughly the same as the USA's immediate reaction. Well the US and UK rushed munitions. But aside from that it just makes Western Europe culpable for failing > It is actively being
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> Giving away intel is the exact opposite of supporting Ukraine. Nobody has reported that the director of the CIA (who is a Russia hawk by the way) "gave away intel". In fact, all known reporting from credible sources stated th
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That doesn't make sense because his administration was attempting to negotiate at least a year prior to the start of the Iran war.
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No we don’t know that the current administration is negotiating in bad faith. That’s your opinion and one that doesn’t really reflect how the world of diplomacy and interactions between nation states work. Why would you waste time and money
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> How? The US no longer supplies military aid to Ukraine. They're not a partner at all, let alone the one "who can make the biggest difference". At a minimum the US still provides intelligence to Ukraine and maintains (and
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So you don’t think the two sides should even try to find a diplomatic solution?
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> It wasn't the US's decision to make, certainly not without having talked to Ukraine. Didn’t suggest it was, but at the end of the day it’s the US who is the partner at the table who can make the biggest difference and bringin
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Well, if you don’t think it’s the right platform for you there’s no need to post or engage with it. I don’t use traditional social media platforms for example. > I don't see you contributing to the space here. Just to yourself and
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> Just look at how today the USA tried to hand over land of Ukraine to Putin Was it the land that Russia currently controls and Ukraine is very unlikely to retake? There's a spectrum between ideological behavior and pragmatic behavi
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China is behind which is why they are doing a dog and pony show around regulations. It’s typical behavior to try and slow down your opponent. If they were interested in regulations you should see how they handle that when they’re ahead. Chi
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> Yes iran is a murderous regime, but thats not a get out of jail free for either failing to do logistics, plan for the enemy you face, or failing to properly vet your targets in a war of choice. Sure, but it’s brought up as though the U
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> But that does not mean that launching an assault on Iran at Netanyahu's bidding was a smart move. We didn’t launch a war based on Netanyahu’s bidding. This is a nonsensical mischaracterization of the war and belittles the general
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Either way, America is more inclusive. Don’t be a ghoul
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What’s the problem? We took nationalist names (Mexico, Ontario) and used the hemisphere appropriate term. If anything we’re more culturally progressive for doing it. See? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575360 Were n
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> (And yes, saying "America" for "US of A" annoys me too. First step towards losing an imperialist state of mind is letting people from Canada and Brazil be in America). Hmm, maybe I should be pro-imperialism. I’ll do
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> Bombing a girl's school in Iran looks like a PR master stroke by comparison. Iran killed more than 30,000 of its own people for peacefully protesting and continues to hang its own citizens to this day. They (along with Hamas, Hezb
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Eh I don’t think that’s a good guess. More likely is that there are just mechanical reasons to have moved some (they didn’t move all of it by the way) gold to London. Plus it’s not that much money in the grand scheme of things. Your implica
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It was apparently important enough for the OP to try and draw a distinction when none was needed…
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They just abuse other resources. Also how do you know this hasn’t simply happened in China and it’s not being reported because the CCP is the one testing?
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Really no choice here. Germany is under immense competitive pressure from China and with the US protecting its domestic industries more than it has in the past too. This could wind up something akin to 2008-2010 Detroit/hollowing out o
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What is the question? We can obviously pursue multiple cases simultaneously and we can do so effectively.
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It's not naive. In fact any comment to the contrary of what I wrote would be naive. Yes of course I'm against it. I'm against it when Donald Trump does it, and I'm also against it when my local government does it, or Nan
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Donald Trump belongs in jail for January 6th (among other things) and it's not ok. But pearl-clutching only about Donald Trump doing it is dumb and doesn't solve the problem. We should oppose corruption and graft everywhere at

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