(Much to Putin's frustration, no doubt) — jamalrob
Like, fuck off back to the Dora the Explorer forums or something. — StreetlightX
I understand that the US and Germany had legitimate POW agreements that were by and large followed, but this was not the case in the Pacific. — BitconnectCarlos
Think so?the US almost had the Taliban/Al Qaeda beat in Afghanistan. — The Opposite
I do think Russian bombing in Syria has been de-emphasized here though, which is Putin’s worst crime in the past decade. You can squeeze in a realist interpretation in this too to an extent, but not as much as for Ukraine. So I think the bounds are a bit more than Eastern Europe. — Saphsin
Your sentiments would make more sense if there was a global government. Without that, theres no social contract to support intervention and no taxation (on loudmouth Dutch people) to provide structure post intervention.
I think it would require a new global religion.
I think China owns a fair amount of Australia, so it would be their call.
Why? Are you trying to recruit me for the Australian CIA?
secular capitalist liberal democracies — Paul Edwards
Too bad one of those things has to spoil the great civilization that the other three together would make. — Pfhorrest
As opposed to the massive social experiment that’s been failing — Pfhorrest
America today is not better for most people than America 40 years ago. Stainism or Maoism is not the only alternative to what we’re doing now. — Pfhorrest
We've had massive improvements in standard of living thanks to our capitalist economy. — Paul Edwards
Note also that capitalism is the *natural* form of trade (no-one in charge of setting prices) — Paul Edwards
I'm sure you've got your pet idea which is guaranteed to work and be better than what we have now, and it's a crying shame that no-one has implemented it to date — Paul Edwards
Most of my generation have barely any hope of ever paying off a home. Two generations ago a man my age who wasn’t well on his way to that goal would have been a complete failure. I’d gladly trade some GiB of RAM for a real house of my own, one I could raise a family in.
The social experiment that’s failing the world is the concentration of capital ownership in increasing fewer hands. That destroys the freedom of the market.
I think it's more sustainable than the Pax Americana — Benkei
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