notlukesky
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Comment · 3 years ago
What was the easiest and the most frustrating part?
Comment · 3 years ago
And if there were any stray dogs.
Comment · 3 years ago
I remember when there was a phrase called “going postal” in the 90s when the postal workers shot up places. Now they are the victims.
Comment · 3 years ago
Your point on many Europeans seeing Churchill as a saviour and not caring about his victims in colonies is just normal by historical (and modern) times. Romans were proud of all the genocides Caesar committed (and proudly self documented). See for example his own account of the Gallic wars and the killing of women and children of tribes from current day Switzerland (the Helvetii). Obama destroyed multiple countries (non-European) and killed and displaced millions and is considered a hero as well in the West like Churchill is. Joe Biden took all the reserves of extremely poor Afghanistan and is starving 40 million people to there to death today. He is considered a hero in the West as well. So like most things it all depends on where you are and who you talk to and their background (European and non-European for example).
Americans in general (and the US mainstream media in their coverage) frame deaths emanating from the US (and it’s close allies) as collateral damage, killed terrorists, eliminated insurecctionists or mistakes or just even ignore it by omissions. From other countries that are not “allies” they are victims or murdered innocents or massacres or genocides etc… Just look at the favorable coverage of Madeleine Albrights death who said in her very own words that she owned to killing 500,000 Iraqi babies and children and said it was well worth it.
https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bibracte
https://jacobin.com/2022/01/sanctions-financial-assets-afgha...
Comment · 3 years ago
Due process and “human rights” do not apply when the government has resolve or perceives the transgression to be beyond the pale. The law or constitution does not matter then as well. Just ask Eugene Debs. Or see Julian Assange. Or Korematsu. Or Joseph Nacchio who refused to violate the law and do illegal surveillance on US citizens for the government without a court order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States
Comment · 3 years ago
South Park blamed Canada
Comment · 3 years ago
I find it strange that your comment on the embellishment of history (an incredibly common phenomenon of the past AND the present) is being downvoted.
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting timeline with warnings of consequences if Sudan allowed the Russian military base:
https://sudantribune.com/article264733/
My guess is that there will be other places with eventful consequences like the Solomon Islands if they allow a Chinese military base.
Comment · 3 years ago
Where is that? And which language and where? Sorani? Kurmanji?
Comment · 3 years ago
The PKK terrorists inflict bombs and child rapes and kidnappings outside the white world. Hence the “tolerance”. A report by the UN of their child kidnappings and rapes in Syria, Iraq and southern Turkey:
https://menaaffairs.com/un-report-again-reveals-ypg-pkk-terr...
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a myth. Sweden violates its own laws and has kidnapped people and sent them to torture chambers in what is called extraordinary renditions. Swedes openly acknowledge this. Their rules apply selectively as is the case all over the world. Just some believe in the smokescreen.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-...