yostrovs

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by yostrovs 5mo ago
You don't get beer after brewing. You get wart. Beer you get after fermentation. Since it's alcoholic, it'll last more than one day.
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
Most of the countries and coalitions you're alluding to have no functional militaries or actual interest in doing something about the war. They do strongly condemn.
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
"The world" cares about some more than others. That's why the plight of the Palestinians is daily on the news, while that of the Yazidis or Druze is not.
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
This war is not even known about by the general public. The question is why not? I believe the actors of the war nobody hates or loves outside of Africa. Nobody knows them. If it would be Americans, Chinese, Israelis, or Russians involved,
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
There's also the third option that's usually taken: condemnation of the trajectory.
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
Hate is a bad phenomenon. I even see signs in my neighborhood saying stuff like "hate has no home here". Maybe try to tamper it down a bit?
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
I've been seeing headlines of this sort last few weeks. It points to Europe preparing for the next time the Hormuz is blocked off. But are there actual actions taken beyond those that save 10 percent on an apartment's electricity
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by yostrovs 6mo ago
They're commonly foraged, and naturally present a curious question of whether they're a vegan food since they're carnivorous.
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
What are you comparing to? The Irish military?
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
You may be right, but I think it's important to realize that there is no IHL and what these experts say doesn't change anything in practice. Pointing to some law that doesn't exist/not enforced only highlights how irrele
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
If having precision weapons raises the duty to verify, does it follow that having unguided weapons raises the duty to not use them at all, since the operator doesn't know what it will strike?
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
I agree with you that I wish for trust and cooperation. But that's just not the way the world is. There is no international law. There really isn't, however much we wish it to be. And therefore bringing up statutes and the ICC is
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Dubai and the Emirates in general should have concerned themselves first with securing the freedom of navigation of the Persian Gulf, and then with building a playground for adults. But they didn't and expected someone else to do it fo
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
What about unguided bombs? When they strike an apartment building, the person firing it can't be guilty. He never aimed at an apartment building. Right? The real rule here is that only the people with precision weapons can be seen as
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Pretending that there's international law, even a court to enforce it, is just closing one's eyes. It's all talk when the court is alone, without any police power to enforce its judgements. The Rome Statute and the ICC exist
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Europeans give too much value to their sympathies. Given that it's now clear to anyone that will open their eyes that there is no international law, Europe ends up looking like an old grandpa yelling at the clouds, powerless to actuall
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Check out older English cars.
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Exactly. 0.23% of GDP. It exists only to be able to say that it exists. But it's not in NATO. The Irish will protect themselves if things go bad.
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Ireland doesn't have a military.
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
American supremacy was due to the previous superpowers smashing themselves against each other, and then being relatively poor for decades after while rebuilding the continent.
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/whos-at-...
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by yostrovs 7mo ago
Europe wouldn't spend the agreed 2% of GDP on the military. Many presidents for many years tried to make them comply with the agreement, but they just ignored it. It was thought better to spend on the healthcare of the public and mock
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by yostrovs 8mo ago
There was never any demand by the public for the output of such departments. They have been perceived as existing in their own bubbles. It's got nothing to do with conservative professors. It's just there's really no need for
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by yostrovs 8mo ago
In retrospect, it turns out that in the 90s we had a paramilitary force murdering people with impunity in the streets of America, commanded by a demented pedophile conman, and it went down quite smoothly.
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by yostrovs 8mo ago
It is strange when unrelated topics get lumped together, almost forcing people to have to take sides they don't want to take. It creates animosity beyond what's at stake.
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by yostrovs 9mo ago
Some time ago, about 25 years ago, I realized that travel had become a status symbol. Wearing gold bracelets and flashy clothes, driving a fancy car, and doing other showy things was no longer cool. Telling someone that you went to Budapest
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by yostrovs 9mo ago
It seems like these days most places in Earth have become simply different versions of each other. How people dress, what they eat, what they know, their interests, and other such things are very similar almost wherever you go. Maybe travel
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by yostrovs 10mo ago
And they didn't work on a nuclear bomb, because Iran only has a civilian nuclear program, since they were not uniformed. It's all very convenient when what something is is defined by the label on it rather that its true nature.
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by yostrovs 11mo ago
The book 1984 demonstrates how logical inconsistencies can exist and be believed in when you don't have much choice.
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by yostrovs 11mo ago
It's a sign of an uneducated populace that a political campaign's success depends on visual design. The good thing for that kind of populace is that it can be made to think it's doing better, or on the way to better, when it&

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