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  • vga@sopuli.xyztoWorld News@lemmy.worldThe destruction of Palestine is breaking the world
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    10 months ago

    If we consider UN as being the main arbitrator on who gets to launch a war, then to mention a few instances…

    1950: North Korea illegally attacks South Korea.

    1956: Soviet Union illegally invades Hungary.

    1956: Israel / France / UK illegally invade Egypt. All invaders withdraw after UN condemnation and international pressure.

    1964: USA illegally escalates Vietnam War.

    1967: Israel launches the Six-Day War, illegality debated.

    1968: Soviet Union illegally invades Czechoslovakia.

    1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel.

    1974: Turkey illegally invades Cyprus.

    1978: Vietnam illegally invades Cambodia.

    1979: Soviet Union illegally invades Afghanistan.

    1982: Israel illegally invades Libanon.

    1983: USA illegally invades Grenada.

    1989: USA illegally invades Panama.

    1990: Iraq illegally invades Kuwait. Got their ass kicked by UN-sanctioned forces though so that worked out fine.

    1999: NATO illegally bombs Yugoslavia.

    2003: US and UK illegally invade Iraq.

    2008: Russia illegally invades Georgia.

    2014: Russia illegally invades and annexes Crimea.

    2015: Saudi-Arabia illegally invades Yemen.

    2022: Russia illegally invades Ukraine.

    I probably forgot a few. No ill meaning meant, just missing knowledge.


  • The Bible specifically allows killing as an act of war and considers it different from murder. The protagonists of the book also steal stuff all the time.

    These commandments are for controlling behavior inside a society, not outside of it.

    Trump is a senile and a deeply unserious person. His existence makes me believe that souls might exist because he very much seems like a person without one. He doesn’t think about his actions deeply which is why I believe that if he suddenly turned religious, I don’t think much would change.
















  • You’re biased, based on your handle. You think Gaza is important.

    I’m also biased, because I live next to Russia. I think defending against Russia in the current situation is much more important than anything that could happen in Gaza. And if you want to take the historical perspective, Russia has violated my country and the people of my country several times during the last 300 years at least, and probably more. Middle East obviously has the potential to beat us on the historical record, given how the whole of human civilization practically rose in that area, but still. It’s not like this is happening for the first time over here either.

    It’s not that I don’t care about their tragedies, it’s just that it’s nowhere near a top priority right now. If Russia stops being a crazy asshole, things farther away from my country’s borders may become more important to me. Still, note that if what I’m suggesting is true, Putin and Russia are partially to blame about what’s happening In Gaza. With a handle like yours, you probably cared about Gaza already before Putin’s manipulations, but half of the eyes of the lefties in west were looking at Ukraine. They are not looking at Ukraine anymore, like they should be doing.

    Truth to be told, geopolitically speaking it seems much more sane to be on Israel’s side because they’re against Iran, who’s on Russia’s side. And Palestine seems to be kinda on Russia’s side as well so remind me again why I should support them at all?


  • Please put an age restriction on politicians, it would solev sooo much nonsense.

    While I partially agree on this, let’s consider some cases:

    • Hitler’s reign 1933-1945, his age: 44-56
    • Stalin 1922-1952, age 44-74
    • Putin 2000-?, age 48-?
    • Pol Pot 1963-1981, age 38-56
    • Louis XIV 1643-1715, age 5-77 or 16-77 if you count coronation as the start (sacre bleu jesus fuck)
    • Xi Jinping 2012-?, age 59-?

    Youth is clearly not enough. Age limit + term limit might be a useful combination, but it all falls down when you allow somebody to just grab all power anyway and reset all the rules and limits, like Putin and Xi Jinping have done.