My examples are proxy wars where the locals retiliated with “terrorism”.

Doesn’t that describe Vietnam?

We’re achieving our goals in Ukraine right now, as we did in all my examples above.

Is your point that the US goes to war to fund the military industrial complex rather than to achieve victory? Because otherwise I’m not understanding your point.

I don’t think any of those conflicts (including Ukraine) went the way the US wanted them to.

Don’t forget Vietnam and Korea.

The US is constantly enmeshed in wars, but when was the last time Americans actually won one? 1945?

That was 79 years ago. Almost one whole Biden.

Just to elaborate, my first thought was: “I dislike this anti-Communist Cold War-era hysteria. I’ll post something to try to counter this hysteria.”

And then I realized: Wait. People are going to think I’m “defending” Russia against accusations of being Communist, and I’m tired of people attacking me for being “pro-Russia”, so I deleted it almost immediately.

So, basically, I’ve started to self-censor my thoughts because I find the toxicity of Lemmy exhausting. Go enjoy hunting your Reds under the Bed, and I’m going to do something better with my time, like go outside.

I really wanted Lemmy to work out, but it’s clear to me that this place is as bad as Reddit, just in a different way.

I decided it wasn’t worth arguing over.

(And by “get ready”, I mean flee the country if you can.)

The line that is too far for her.

It’s outside the Overton window right now, but get ready for it to be normal and mainstream in another five years.

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Dude, just say you’re afraid of black people and leave the rest of us humans out of it.

At least this one looks like her.

For instance, we’ve seen cases of people using this chart to imply that we have Donald Trump forecasted to win the election by 10 or 11 points. The biggest landslide since Reagan in 1984! But that’s not at all what this chart is saying. Rather, it displays the probability that Trump will win the Electoral College — which is about 55 percent in our forecast, compared to about 45 percent for Harris.

I’m not seeing any disinformation on Linkerbaan’s part. Linkerbaan posted the chart with its correct title.

Russia and the CCP?

Do I get paid twice?

Edit: Busted!

What does “Busted” mean? Do you think you’re on an episode of Mythbusters.

Anecdotes are not data. People’s social circles are often echo chambers that don’t reflect the entire population.

the only reason the old constitution hasn’t been amended is because China regularly threatens to start a full scale war if there’s any amendment to reflect the current reality

What makes you think that’s “the only reason”? Because some people on reddit said so?

It’s a lovely place and they’re a lovely people.

That’s the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

But it’s true.

No, of course they don’t have expansionist ambitions, because they consider a large part of Siberia theirs, including Primosky Krai which was ceded by the Qing

This article was literally about China not wanting Primosky Krai, and the president of Taiwan asking why.

You didn’t read the article, did you?

International waters or other countries waters are none of chinas business.

Someone upthread asked how China was blocked in, and I was helping to answer their question.

what’s your take on the massacre on Tianmen square and also the prosecution of the yughurs?

My take is you can’t spell either of them correctly.

My point is that the US has an unusually high degree of control over the waters near China’s coast.

The Opium wars were part of the century of humiliation.

In mainland China, the century of humiliation is considered to have ended in 1949 with the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In Taiwan, the century of humiliation is considered to have ended in 1945, when the ROC became a founding member of the United Nations with a permanent seat on the UN security council. (That seat was transferred to the PRC in 1971.)

Remember Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines and Malaysia are US allies.

It’s a little more than just being allies.

The South Korean military is under US control. (South Korea has symbolic control during peace time, but “operational control” reverts to the US during wartime.) South Korea has been asking the US to give them operational control of their own army for decades, but the US has never done so.

And Japan does not have its own army. As per the US-Japan Security Treaty (which was forced on Japan after WWII), the US military is in charge of the defense of Japan. The US has more troops in Japan than in any other foreign country.