shallowsax

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by shallowsax 10mo ago
Of course they're not. Ideally they would be, but I haven't observed that they generally are and wouldn't make such a claim.
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
Even if the criticism is fair, it's still whataboutism. I agree with you that countries other than China have done bad things, including post-WWII, but not that it in any way justifies turning the streets of Taipei into a warzone. I wo
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
It sounds like we have some common ground, but I think you may have a misunderstanding of the present American worldview and politics. We're 79 years removed from Philippine independence, and you would have to try very hard to find a s
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
I'm sure that's subjectively clear to you, maybe not so much to the people actually living in Taiwan or the hypothetical independent California.
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
I'm not referring to any specific actions or commenting on who did what. I summarized what I've observed to be the common perception, which is that Iraq and Afghanistan were "forever wars" conducted against the informed
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
I haven't commented one way or another on the likelihood of an invasion. My claim is that an escalation from limited airstrikes to full-scale invasion would be wildly unpopular, which I stand by.
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
Yep, any war of aggression would be wildly unpopular today. Limited actions may be somewhat tolerated inasmuch as they're seen as being at the behest of the legitimate Venezuelan government in exile, but no one wants a land invasion or
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by shallowsax 10mo ago
Yep, it's 100% common knowledge. I distinctly remember my teacher making a point to explain why Chiang Kai-shek and Jiang Jieshi were both valid transliterations in my 10th grade world history class. No one in America with a high schoo