Really after… he just got Germany’s best PR guy.
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Also how you got AQ. And $trillions for the MIC and Imperial bases around the world. Certain interests and factions benefit from destabilisation. Recent history makes more sense if you look at it that way.
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Nobody saw this coming, right? Has to have the last word like the toddler he emotionally seems to be.
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Important correction: Trump is not a twit, he’s a twat.
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If there is one thing whichj terrifies Turkey, Russia, Syria, the Saudis, and the Americans it’s the spectre of democracy.
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I concede there are “rules” to war. But rules and laws only exist if there is another force to “enforce them”. For example, who punished the Soviets for their war crimes in WWII i.e. Katyn Massacre? No one. Hell the Japanese STILL haven’t officially apologized for their actions in China like the Rape of Nanjing, even though they did offer up some officers.
I still find the idea that when one nation declares war on another is some how “illegal” because one finds it unjust or it violates a general, yet unbinding, agreement a bit silly. Yes I am aware of people saying for example the Iraq war violated the UN charter, but then you have lawyers on the other side wrangling the legal language to justify it. I just find the whole thing absurd.
If one wants to condemn a war or violent action, condemn it on the reasoning or basis or who we are fighting or the actual actions taken. Take the moral position. Arguing a legal position is, IMO, absurd. YMMV.
Yes, people break the rule of law all the time, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (looks at double negatives, counts, looks again… is that right? shrugs, continues pontificating!).
I don’t. What’s the Terry Pratchett thing, from Hogswatch? Where Death and Susan are talking about fictional, mythical constructs? She dismisses the idea of gods and hogsfather (though she’s sitting there talking to her grandfather, Death), and he points out how we human create all these myths that we need the constructs, like justice and law to believe in, that it gives us an ideal to strive for and better ourselves for. think of it like that. I think that using the social constructs of our times to condemn bad acts is what we should do, not because it necessarily makes the bad acts not happen, but because we’re appealing to the better angels of our nature. If we really want to make this whole enlightenment thing work out in the long run (and it very well may not), we have to appeal to the ideals in times of crisis.
So, yes, saying a war violates international law matters. Prosecuting people who will slaughter others for being the wrong ethnicity or religion matters. Because if we don’t do that, then we end up just living in a world that’s ruled by force, and many, MANY of us are going to be entirely fucked. I know you don’t want that any more than I do…
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It didn’t take him long to start publicly shitting on Mattis.
And now he’s trying to appoint someone with no military, government, or foreign policy experience to run the military.
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Word on the street (that is, Pennsylvania Avenue) is that Trump read Mattis’ resignation letter but was too dense to realize it was a diss at Trump and his policies until he saw some talking heads on TV mention it.
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I can 100% believe this. Not only is Trump a vapid moron with the attention span of an ADHD-suffering gnat, he has no experience in politics or military, and thus no idea about the kind of a politely scathing “fuck you” that Mattis employed in his letter.
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Twit, Twat, let’s call the whole thing off!
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Someone gave him the knife and fork and put that KFC on the plate for him to pose for the photo. Usually he just stuffs his head in the box.
I imagine they tilt the chair back, stick a funnel in his mouth, and pour the chicken in.
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Unless Pence is taken down with him. A distinct possibility given the convictions piling up with the Mueller probe.
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