Damn this "managed democracy" guerilla marketing for Helldivers 2 is out of control
Representative Brad Sherman also said that the US should "think of whether we stay a signatory" to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC.
The U.S. already isn't party to the Rome Statute, and in fact has legislation on the books to invade The Hauge if the ICC issues a warrant for U.S. personnel.
This asshole is the guy saying we just don't understand the complexities of the real world, and we should leave things to The Adults In The Room.
Shades of 2020
We need more people to take us seriously, they get taken seriously by default.
Somewhere, Colin Powell is looking up and smiling
I'm not going to vote for someone giving full-throated endorsement and material support for genocide. If that isn't a red line, nothing is.
It's like some sort of big cat, but made of something more fragile than flesh and blood
Lmao just what I was thinking
"I'm no military mastermind, but..."
Where these wars happened anyway, they either weren’t between states (but civil wars or insurgencies instead), they were so lopsided in numerical or technological terms that they were over before they really began (e.g. Desert Storm) or they happened in Africa where it’s easy not to notice them for the rest of the world. There were a few exceptions, e.g. Iran-Iraq, but they don’t really change the general picture.
Some terrible history right here. Writes off a ton of "total war"-style conflicts (presumably the post-WWII phase of the Chinese Civil War, plus the entire Korean War, plus the independence struggle of Vietnam from 1945-1975) because... if they're civil wars or insurgencies (extremely fuzzy categories to begin with) they don't count? Doesn't address a few peer conflicts between India and Pakistan that thankfully stopped soon after they began. Doesn't address the wars Vietnam fought against China and Cambodia in the late 70s/early 80s. Writes off another whole category of lopsided wars that are still incredibly destructive, especially when you look at the effects of long-term destabilization (Yugoslavia and Libya come to mind). Handwaves Africa for no good reason, and recognizes a glaring example of exactly what they're talking about (Iran-Iraq) but ignores it as an exception (it's really not!). Doesn't even think of comparing the damage done by industrialized warfare to mass killings in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Latin America.
Blaming Kiev for breaking some non-existent taboo against total war is a stretch, too. There are many times Kiev could have defused the situation (from 2014 all the way to the aborted ceasefire agreement soon after the war began), but fighting a whole-ass army the only way one can fight a whole-ass army is a response you'd expect from basically any country in Ukraine's situation (it was a prerequisite to getting a deal as good as they had right after the start of the war, too).
Polyukhovich has been fighting for eight years in eastern Ukraine, where the war has been raging since the covert Russian invasion in 2014.
Finland was moving close to Germany before the nazi rise because Russia was fueling a Civil War in finland. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
This you?
imminent domain
When you definitely know what you're talking about
Obviously I'm not talking about the clearly objectionable misuses of eminent domain. If I say only chuds have a problem with seatbelt laws you wouldn't start talking about how cops misuse seatbelt laws to pull over black people at a higher rate than white people; all laws can be abused. The point is that the concept behind the law is not some crazy government overreach.
Getting back to the discussion, a land swap is not something so objectionable that your country has an excuse to go running to the Nazis for help. Especially when the threat of the Nazis is the reason for the land swap in the first place.
Value judgments are pretty important when you're talking about allying with Nazis.
That's an enormous difference. "I'm going to take your house and you can pound sand" is much more objectionable than "I would like your house and will offer you fair compensation, which can implicitly be negotiated."
Note that the latter is what governments around the world do with eminent domain, and only right-wing cranks think that's a fighting matter.
This is a step in the right direction for this person, and losing people usually makes an organization's work harder for those who remain. We want to support both of those things even if it's also fair to ask questions like "what took so long?" or "why aren't you doing more?" One might even call it critical support.
Polling conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations in January in 12 countries suggested that only 10 per cent of voters think Ukraine can win. Some 37 per cent thought that a compromise was most likely and 19.5 per cent thought that Russia would win in the end.
I was surprised (somehow I am also surprised I can still be surprised at maoists) that many of them upheld the GPCR but didn’t really know much about it. How can you claim to support something you haven’t investigated yourself?
Huh, wonder if Mao himself ever said anything about speaking on subjects one has not investigated.