I make no expectations.
Itt: people praising Russian “diplomacy” .
This is like Russia is currently mugging Ukraine, and if Ukraine just stops resisting and let’s them finish, they won’t kill them after.
“If you’d stop defending yourself, all this violence would end!”
Lol
“Do not use an incredibly concrete example”
What in the fuck
Edit and here you are, casually excluding the admittedly and respectfully ignorant, while they try to become better informed.
Is this how you think you bring people to your position? Or educate them?
Edit this is a global discussion platform. Someone is allowed to say “I don’t know what that is”. You don’t have to hold their hand, you could for example say “those are political factions in Taiwan,” and that’s that, but criticizing someone for saying they don’t understand is gatekeeping, shitty behavior. Assuming their political alignment (and then denigrating them for that assumed alignment), all based on their seemingly good natured request for clarification is additionally shitty.
Edit edit it is also a journalistic and academic standard to write out acronyms the first time they are used, this isn’t an opinion thing, a political alignment thing or any else.
Interesting. So if you have decent work (or remote work), why not just leave the shittier countries and go to the best?
Got it, that’s all I meant. I thought there were requirements, it’s not just “pack our bags, we’re moving to Germany tomorrow”
Legitimate question: aren’t there barriers / hurdles to permanent residency still?
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No, you weren’t just insulting me, you were trying to devalue my presence in the discussion by painting me a child, in turn diluting my position.
That’s classic ad hominem because the insult was tied to the possible value of the argument.
Now you’re just insulting me, and still not addressing my argument / position / points.
You’re slap fighting all on your own now, as I won’t engage in that edit by calling you things back.
“kiddo”
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Hah ad hominems after you dodged half my original points. Cya!
No, blasting the coast is desert storm levels of obliteration, anything less is as I said earlier “one arm behind back”.
Military Ships are still there, commercial ships are still traveling there.
Edit there’s lots to disagree on rationally, but the depth of the US mic is not anywhere close to being tapped, by ability.
Ass kicked implies lost lives, lost vessels, lost territory of operation. The ships are still there, they are just busy.
It’s nothing new and nothing about the houthis or the us navy that makes mobile land launched missiles and drones a competent challenge to ships at sea.
The normal follow up would be to fuck off or start blasting the whole coast. The fact that we are seeing a third option is interesting.
Ass kicked?, considering they have to act in a limited way currently, but if Russia ramps up it’s involvement you get this:
Or
Edit: to be clear here, I’m not stanning for the us military, I’m suggesting the US mic would LOVE to openly contest Russian interests and are certainly itching for the opportunity. Ukraine is not that place, but Syria can be.
Edit edit the linked article doesn’t show an ass kicking, it shows a contested navel space, which it sounds like is going “just fine”, but is risky. And obviously insanely expensive.
The US would love that, as it can counterstrike in those places with far less risk/complications
There is no fucking way they’re getting the factories undamaged. If it was certain they’re lost, there will be a family of hypersonic missiles en route to level them
Ok so no.
Obviously a country focused on military production can…produce militarily.
Cold sweats are chill