You keep saying that but Israel is worst on human rights from the three entities now named. Both in numbers and types of abuses. So you keep defending Israel despite it being worse than Hamas, the latter which you apparently find horrendously evil and bad since it's your go-to scapegoat. — Benkei
The US might have more human rights abuses than a smaller terrorist group -- is the US the bad guy in this case? — BitconnectCarlos
ISIS vs the US? — BitconnectCarlos
or is there a way? — BitconnectCarlos
but for the US — tim wood
Ahaha, you forgot about the British empire? But for the Brits, you'd be speaking comanche or something. — Benkei
varying per one source from one tribe to another more than Chinese to English. — tim wood
But for the US, whose ruthless pursuit of debt-claims in Europe after WWI virtually guaranteed continental depression and political fragmentation across the continent, WWII would likely not have ever happened. To quote the historian Michael Hudson, — StreetlightX
the public after the four years' strife would tolerate nothing less. In short, Europe did it to itself. — tim wood
Churchill's account was that the politicians understood very well the terms could not be met, but also that the public after the four years' strife would tolerate nothing less. — tim wood
Every U.S. administration from 1917 through the Roosevelt era employed the strategy of compelling repayment of these war debts, above all by Britain — StreetlightX
Was the US just supposed to hemorrhage cash onto the Allies for the fun of it? — frank
Hold on. Why didn't these imperialist powers, which themselves had gladly enjoined The Great War that Kaiser's Reich had precipitated, not tell the US to fuck off for this extortion-among-friends (i.e. "gangsterism") by either (1) negotiating much more manageable terms or (2) defaulting outright to let the devil take the hindmost, as they'd say?Moral of the story: the US held Europe financially hostage because it is a shithole country, and WWII was the result of its gangsterism. — StreetlightX
Hold on. Why didn't these imperialist powers, which themselves had gladly enjoined The Great War that Kaiser's Reich had precipitated, not tell the US to fuck off for this extortion-among-friends (i.e. "gangsterism") by either (1) negotiating much more manageable terms or (2) defaulting outright to let the devil take the hindmost, as they'd say? — 180 Proof
Regardless of whether or not Hudson overstates US complicity, it is undoubtable that US actions were a heavy spur to the most destructive war that ever took place on the face of the planet - — StreetlightX
He wrote an article for the WSJ about it. — frank
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