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by throwaway3060 2mo ago
I've read that article too, and never got the impression it quite went that far. That there wasn't some unified group, sure, but I never heard anyone claim that (maybe reflecting when I first learned about them?). Maybe that'
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by throwaway3060 2mo ago
I thought she would be, but apparently classicist and historian have less overlap than I'd have assumed. I don't know how else to explain this one, I was shocked when I read that line. r/askhistorians, which as far as I know
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by throwaway3060 2mo ago
I am not an expert in this space, so hopefully an actual expert will come by and clarify, but I am pretty sure that "The current consensus [...] is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’" is just flat out untrue. (IIUC,
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by throwaway3060 2mo ago
Suddenly started happening to me out of nowhere while browsing. Really does feel like one of the last pillars of the old internet just toppled - that reading is open to anyone. New Reddit is basically unusable. Edit: I still am a strong bel
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by throwaway3060 3mo ago
This is not what the word "colonialism" means in modern times; which imperial state is exploiting the resources of the destination?
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by throwaway3060 3mo ago
Is it? Don't know about other countries, but I am pretty sure the constitutional bedrock of the United States is to limit the federal government's ability to be malignant, even at the cost of some benefit. Whether that has been ac
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by throwaway3060 4mo ago
Not to defend Amazon here, but I think this is talking about the already severely limited streaming benefit of Prime, not the dedicated Amazon Music paid subscription. The former is not really comparable to a actual paid music subscriptio
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by throwaway3060 4mo ago
It is doing a lot of work. People who vilify the US rarely bother to make the distinction, to acknowledge the good (and the ones who do get crowded out). Human nature is not that forgiving.
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by throwaway3060 4mo ago
When you constantly get villainized for being involved, that makes it a lot harder to justify to the populace that these things are worth doing. People actually do listen, but not always in the way one intended. At this point, is it any won
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
I've been hearing the school strike was an Iranian misfire, actually.
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
I remember that the alternative has also unleashed hell on Earth for countless innocent people. At some point, you have to take the path that offers at least some hope for the future. To turn into something that has lost all hope - there is
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
Going after the monsters that murdered thousands of Americans was entirely justified. Russia's problem is that all their reasons for invading Ukraine, they made up. The very people Russia claims to have been 'saving', are the
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
The same state's leader that sold to Russia the drones being used to violate Ukraine's sovereignty?
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
As big as this is, the Russia-Ukraine war pretty much marked the end of the post-WW2 era and redefined global relations between the powers. In that sense, this is yet another major shift within this new era. But also, the series of events t
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
If you're going to go pre-20th century, Russia has the dubious distinction of having waged the most "total" recorded genocide in history, the Circassian genocide. Just because you haven't heard of Russia colonizing doesn
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
Then Liebowitz was wrong (and Kanheman, though it seems to me he wasn't trying to make a reasoned argument in that interview). And thus, those who cite him would presumably do better to read other, more historical sources.
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
> Comparisons needn't be limited to one event or one atrocity. You can't openly call a group Nazis and then claim you only meant in terms of their behavior on the western front. It misses the whole point, not to mention it make
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
What is ample? Can you provide any evidence that Gaza can be put in the same breath as Leningrad? Russia calls all the West "Nazis", should we just listen to them? I think you really need to learn more about the eastern front, if
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
Less genocidal federation? That is quite the claim. The Soviets starved millions of people to death, in order to secure their control. All that help was then built on the backs and blood of those victims. At least let's be honest a
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
Given the track record of knowledge of the eastern front beyond the iron curtain, maybe he didn't. I don't know how anyone can read about Operation Barbarossa, the full scope of the plans to wipe out half of the continent, and com
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
Are you trying to imply there is a comparison between Gaza and Leningrad ? Where a number equal to the entire modern population of Gaza perished? Something is very wrong with education on WW2 if anyone thinks this is a reasonable thing t
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
I thought for a bit whether I should reply to this or not. But I noticed one point in here I felt obligated to correct. If your idea of the Nazis is their occupation in the west, then you are missing most of the picture. Their atrocities in
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
Soviets who murdered millions of people. Will those decolonial movements then accept complicity, even if reluctantly, for all the peoples the Soviets oppressed and even genocided?
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
You would be wrong. This happens to have been a propaganda campaign invented decades earlier in the Soviet Union. In fact, it is quite stunning how similar all this is to the modern propaganda Russia uses.
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
For much of that time frame, the Soviets were also meddling in the Middle East. That the middle east conflicts were themselves part of the Cold War rather than something unrelated, is knowledge that has gone forgotten in the West, I think.
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
China and Russia would love to have another chess piece for their collection. While I doubt Israel would ever willingly choose to joint that circle - if you give them no choice, that's what will happen. Then you lose all leverage. Not
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
I wonder how the victims of Russia's imperialism feel about this comparison. If you back someone into a corner with no escape valve, they will just double down.
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
This is supposing that people only have an obligation to not cause harm, and that those who are able have no moral obligation to actively help protect those who need and deserve it. Kind of like the trolley problem, I suppose.
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
I disagree with many parts of this narrative, but even this fundamental hypothesis that Israel will just give up without Western support, that there is absolute leverage, I have no idea where it comes from or what evidence suggests this. If
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by throwaway3060 7mo ago
If that was true, then why does it seem this conflict has gotten much more attention than the Russia-Ukraine war, which is on a much larger scale?

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