False. My post has 44 lines. My comments on the Taiwan situation are only in the last three lines.
3 / 44 = 6.8%, which is far less than 1/3 of the post that you claimed.
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3 / 44 = 6.8%, which is far less than 1/3 of the post that you claimed.
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And that's an reasonable excuse for all that war and murder against civilians!?
You wrote quite a bit about "Chinese nationalists" as context to the Taiwan comment. This took up the last 4 paragraphs. Can we narrowly focus on Ukraine and Russia here, and leave China/Taiwan comments for that thread?
Wars are always like this. Re-read, for example, Flavius abt the Judean war.And that's an reasonable excuse for all that war and murder against civilians!?
There is a reason why the first damn lines of the UN charter were written the way they were.
In the end, when law and diplomacy fails, it gets this ugly.
Military experts should be concise about this - because this is what they (we) are talking and writing about. Even if they(we) are just talking about equipment, planes, numbers or legal matters of wars.
Making a sudden Pikachu face (oh, it's horrible) is simply cynical.
First of all, 'might makes right' is a general principle, which is independent of any particular local situation.
I would make a distinction between Crimea and Donetsk / Luhansk.
Crimea (with a Russian majority) held a referendum and approved of joining Russia.
I have an ethnic Russian friend whose aunt lives in Crimea and approved of it joining Russia.
She strongly opposes Russia's war on Ukraine, which she believes will make Russia weaker, not stronger,
in addition to being cruelly unjust toward Ukraine's people.
Don't care. You benefit either way from the Pax Americana and its effect around the globe, particularly the third world.
Then only exception to this being non-whites, who are still largely segregated and treated as second class citizens at best.
They might diaspprove all they want but they do jackshit to change any of it other than to vote every 4 years for the same shit of slightly different flavor and then throw up their arms when either they don't win or whomever they choose, does the same same thing the other party does and go "oh well, I did everything I could".
And the rest of us have to put with the consequences of it. The average american is complicit by omission at best.
Heck, they barely do anything to change the stuff that actually affects them as it is.
I'm not a nationalist. I just hail from a third world country that has had to deal with american bullshit for far too long, including people thrown from planes into the sea with chains around their feet for being to "lefty"
He doesn't, either. He has validated plenty of foreing policies atrocities in his spare time and has been quite lukewarm on many others and at the end of the day, he really hasn't done anything to change any of it, just throw up his arms like everybody else and go "that's bad, mmmmmmmkay?".
And I'm done with this subject in this thread. Not interested in keeping derailing it and humoring your faux "both sides are equally bad".
To gringo and gringo-enablers I apply Mao's "No investigation, no right to speak" but "no organizing and actually fighting against american foreing policy, no right to moralize others"
I wrote about apparent 'Chinese nationalists' in the context of their zealously supporting Russia's war on Ukraine.
Can you not understand that the Taiwan situation is a different context?
Do you believe that Chinese nationalists are so narrow-minded that they can think only of Taiwan and nothing else?
Chinese nationalism is irrelevant for a Ukraine vs Russia conflict.
I can't believe people like Friedman are taken seriously in Washington. "Don't worry about Russia's nukes, someone in the chain of command will refuse to press the button." If it was like that, why was there a cold war?
He also seems to be ignorant of the public sentiment that's gripping Russia right now. The western boycott war against Russian culture was bad enough, now Russian media has reported Ukrainian war crimes and the Russian public are incensed. For the first time, you've got people complaining about Putin's inaction gaining prominence. A few years ago Khadyrov was considered to be crazy Chechen warlord, he's currently being taken very seriously by Russian people far more than anything Putin is saying right now. A few months ago Medinsky was seen as a staunch nationalist, he's now seen by the Russian public as a weak liberal.
If Putin resigns or steps down, who does he think is going to take over? To me it's like these people in Washington want a nuclear war, they can't be this incompetent.
This isn't like Afghanistan where Russia gave up when things weren't working out. This is widely considered to be a battle on home territory for the existence of Russia. The two sides are nowhere near close to agreeing on anything. There won't be any negotiated settlement, and there certainly won't be negotiations between Putin and Zelensky.
There is only going to be one outcome of this war, a total victory of Russia over Ukraine. If things are going bad, Putin (or whoever replaces him) will use every weapon in his arsenal to get what he wants. No one in the west seems to have figured this out yet.
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