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Europe endures and prospers at the expense of the US military forces.
On the other hand, we take the refugees produced by US military and foreign politics. And our countries are the first to crumble into dust if there is another Dr. Strangelove.
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> stop living under the yoke of fear and distraction pumped out by the media machine If you have a solution that scales up to the population at large I'm all ears.
Get everyone "vaccinated"? https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fake-news-vaccine-works-...
The link to the actual game is here: https://getbadnews.com/#intro
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On the other hand, we take the refugees produced by US military and foreign politics. And our countries are the first to crumble into dust if there is another Dr. Strangelove.
The US Military didn't force you to take them.
What's wrong with you people.
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The US Military didn't force you to take them.
Right. Just leave those refugees to cook under the sun in an overcrowded, broken down boat in the Mediterranean until they drown. Or be like Hungary: raise a fence on the border, with armed personnel at checkpoints, and hope that shooting people on sight becomes ethically accepted. What's wrong with you people.
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Europe endures and prospers at the expense of the US military forces.
On the other hand, we take the refugees produced by US military and foreign politics. And our countries are the first to crumble into dust if there is another Dr. Strangelove.
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Maybe in Iraq, but Lybia, Afghanistan and Syria would be even worse without foreign intervention.
My soul hurts a bit when I see people from a privileged position of power write this and judging the world in simplistic terms. You say Lybia is better now, destroyed and torn by war, with no real government in sight, with ISIS there and civil war, thousands dead and economy destroyed is better than with Gadaffi and with biggest economy by far in Africa and with law and order (however that law and order is achived)?…
I didn’t say it’s better now. What I said was that a lot of those places have a tumultuous history of instability (Afghanistan) or are run by dictators where a violent power struggle is a certain eventuality (Libya, Syria).
Gadaffi was going to lose power eventually (through death is certain) and the power struggle that results is going to be ugly.
Our military (US) and military budget is just another cold war era echo which has been propagating for far too long. There are so many alarmist media outlets in this country who 'make their steak' off of fear mongering (looking at you FOX news) and what's more unfortunate is the general public's seeming endless supply of naive assent too their ideals and tactics. It isn't the US governments fault the military industr…
I can recommend The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade by Andrew Feinstein - mind you I found it quite depressing as the levels of corruption and cynicism that it describes are quite remarkable.
I always have wondered how people calculate pollution from countries. I mean, that must be from data gathered from the government? For countries/governments that doesn't even have or have a very limited garbage disposal, that must mean they pollute very little on paper when in reality people just throw stuff into the ground / ocean etc. I don't really believe this article. It seems like a typical clickbait shit artic…
The article is talking about carbon footprint, it's in the very first sentence, had you taken time to barely open the article.
And my point was literally that there is several countries that simply cannot measure their carbon footprint since they barely have a functional government.
And even if the article only talks about CO2, it is still very, very misleading and the title is even worse. Like I said, a clickbait article.
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You joke, but Canada has disputes with Russia over arctic territorial claims.
And that dispute is being resolved [0] on the basis of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea [1]. Interestingly, this convention is signed and ratified basically by the whole world, but not by the US. [0] https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2019/04/russia-scor... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t...