You were applying “a well armed society is a polite society” to geopolitics. I disagree. Weapons are what you fall back on after all the other options have failed. A “ballot box, jury box, ammo box” sort of deal.
Education and tolerance are the tools of peace. If your leaders are extremists who can’t compromise, pointing fingers for who you should hate more, jump to labels and teams, and issue ultimatums rather than dialogue, then you are on a road to war.
No one’s going to comment on “professional war crimes investigator” being a thing? His mental health professionals are going to need mental health professionals. You have to wonder how Nihilist his worldview is after 20 years.
Even now, my brain won’t ever wrap its head around modern countries like Ireland and N. Ireland feeling the need for things like “peace walls” between neighbors.
Your comment sums up a lot of my feelings: a true peace can’t be forced from the outside. It’s way too complicated and emotional for simplistic shit. And you can see it in the comments around here too. Everyone’s wrapped up in intense anger, blame, and reciting the litany of past horrors as justification for new ones.
You will not achieve peace by totally dismissing one party at the table. You have not proposed any solutions or even a path to a solution.
You have only encouraged more violence by pointing fingers.
We were already participating in WW2 before Pearl Harbor. Lend-Lease was packing the UK chock full o’ guns, food, and oil. The “Arsenal of Democracy” speech was 1940.
Between the indiscriminate chemical weapons and the nepotistic generals ordering hundreds of thousands to their futile deaths, isolationism in WW1 was still probably the right idea.
Your source talks about events prior to 1939. Poland and France had not been attacked yet. Most people didn’t know what Nazi Germany’s plans were.
There was no existing nation. Pre-47, it was British territory and before that, it was seized from the Ottoman Empire after WW1.
Simplistic statements about historical claims to territory will never work here. Nor will “keeping score” about whose team is getting revenge for what previous massacre and who’s killed the most children (what a fucking thing to have to spell out. holy shit.).
You’re misrepresenting what happened and the documented differences in how China behaves vs other countries.
It’s hard to overstate how dangerous flying within 5 meters of another jet is.
Russia frequently tests US readiness by flying towards North American airspace yet you don’t hear about F-22 pilots colliding with other planes. But there’s a long history of Chinese pilots absolutely fucking it up, resulting in death and damage.
A lot of people are trying to justify the killing of Israeli civilians however.
If there’s going to be an “open air prison”, we should make one for the far right nationalists of every country so the rest of the world can live in peace.
That someone would be creating a strawman.
The KKK is not the ruling government of the US. The KKK has next to nothing for popular support. The KKK does not claim to be working in the best interests of all Americans.
Really? They’re absolutely everywhere on Lemmy:
Merely challenging some of these points can get you banned on a few instances.