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No, I’m pretty sure that is quite distinctly covered under the ‘moron’ label.

It should have been Bernie - and yet I and every Bernie voter I know are hell-bent on voting Biden. Because no Bernie voter who isn’t a troll or a moron thinks that Trump will improve the status of the left-wing in this country.

I hate these Very Concerned Voters™ online who push these purity tests.

So maybe the USSR wasn’t prepared for the scale of a naval mainland invasion, but given the Japanese losses in Manchuria, it certainly seems they at least had the manpower in the region. It’s not like the Red Army had to march all the way from Berlin to Vladivostok.

Speaking purely from the standpoint of a mainland invasion, which is what the US was trying to avoid, and the USSR could not have undertaken, in order to force a Japanese surrender. They were in a serious position to invade Manchuria (and did), but that’s not Japan so much as the Chinese puppet state of Japan.

The USSR was never in a serious position to launch an invasion of Japan, and Japan was not ready to surrender for anything short of complete and total defeat. Even after the first nuclear bomb was dropped, there was serious discussion of continuing the war; after the second bomb, there was a failed coup attempt against the Emperor to prevent him from surrendering.

The USSR’s intervention was mutually agreed upon by Allied (and actually requested by the Western Allies) forces and happened after the first bombing.

Hey Ada! Sorry to bother you, but I don’t know how to message off-Kbin accounts. There seems to be a spammer or bot or something using a blahaj.zone account.

https://kbin.social/u/@[email protected]

Just strings of unrelated words and image links.

Ah, that brings me back!

Yeah, like, I’m generally pretty anti-CCP, but this is a non-issue, really.

Yeah, the problems with democracy are rarely solved by less democracy. It just turns into “Instead of many idiots voting to do something stupid, one idiot votes to do something stupid.”

Pretty sure it’s implied that there would be a usable exit in this theoretical, never-happening pause. The fact that they specify getting hostages out implies that.

And massive support from oligarchs. The idea that the hoi polloi are somehow more gullible, greedy, or vicious than the elite is… not generally backed by evidence.

… why?

The Roman Senate was a bunch of ultrawealthy oligarchs who literally murdered democratic reformers. I don’t know that I would put much stock in their opinions on the ‘common people’.

I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high. Once everyone’s bored of this war and distracted, and the man on the street in the Arab world is once again existentially preoccupied, it’s not unlikely Arab leaders will end their performative outrage and return to real politik, making money and throwing Palestinians under the bus.

Oh, don’t worry, my hopes weren’t that Arab leaders would hold Israel accountable. Only that some of us will remember this outrage.

That is actually how it works. It is not against international law to strike civilian areas if it cannot be avoided in order to attack military targets.

It is if the collateral damage is considered ‘excessive’ in comparison to the military benefits that would be gained if the strike was successful and in relation to the level of precision available.

You know, like murdering 50 civilians in a refugee camp with a guided munition to kill an enemy officer.

Actually, it does if justified. I don’t agree at all with it, but that’s war. The IDF will justify it and no one will do anything but look the other way.

what

Thus, in a legal sense, these strikes are being carried out.

That’s not how it works. The failure of an enemy to abide by the laws of war does not absolve your side of the necessity of following the laws of war.

Jesus, fuck, it’s the Bush administration all over again. I’m having fucking flashbacks to “Why it’s actually totally legal to torture ‘unprivileged combatants’”

Why? So Israel can kill more US citizens and get away with it without so much as a slap on the wrist?

Oh, sorry, lol.

BRICS is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Of those, only Brazil and South Africa are not currently engaged in ethnic cleansing.

Is that really what we want to gamble on?