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https://mobile.twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1427063224604581895
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Aug 16, 2021 02:05
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The eYuan already exists and is in limited use, the question is when it goes fully public. ----- That opinion piece is a bit of a mess especially the part in one paragraph he mentions how the Liberal Democratic party was started by Kishi and other war-time fascists but... quote:In other words, modern Japan is a prosperous stable liberal democracy not because of the magical transformative power of U.S. boots on the ground, but because of deep-rooted institutional, political, and cultural forces that were present before the war. The experience of conquering and losing an empire, and of fighting and losing WW2, deeply influenced Japan’s leadership and prompted them to choose the country’s modern course. But that’s not a transformation that the U.S. could have brought about if the country hadn’t had a leadership that both wanted this transformation and was capable of bringing it about. I get his point that Japan was already an industrialized state before 1945, but if anything the "deep-rooted institutional, political, and cultural forces present before the war" are a pretty mixed bag all things considered. I know he wants to give Japan credit, but let's be honest, the US was happy to see a reliable one-party state in power and continually supported it. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 02:25 on Aug 16, 2021 |
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Aug 16, 2021 02:16
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brugroffil posted:https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1426809181433176064 It's a misquote but Mao did basically say that, per Kruschev's memoir, or at least something close to it. quote:“We shouldn’t be afraid of atomic missiles. No matter what kind of war breaks out, conventional or nuclear, we will win… If the imperialists unleash war on us, we may lose more than 300 million people. So what? War is war. The years will pass and we will get to work making more babies than ever before.” Mao also famously called Kruschev a pussy for not nuking the US during the cuban missile crisis
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Aug 16, 2021 02:18
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https://twitter.com/jamesabernard/status/1427069150006968320 Christian, son, husband, dad, brother, friend. Optimist. Technologist. Change your thinking, change your life. Not vaxed
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Aug 16, 2021 02:35
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quote:I’m no foreign policy expert, but I have lived overseas (about 4 years in Japan). Lol
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Aug 16, 2021 03:32
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As someone who has cranked it to thousands of hours of hentai I consider myself an East Asia policy expert. State Department hmu on LinkedIn.
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Aug 16, 2021 03:43
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Rent-A-Cop posted:As someone who has cranked it to thousands of hours of hentai I consider myself an East Asia policy expert. same
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Aug 16, 2021 03:44
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having watched every episode of legend of the galactic heroes, i consider myself a n expert on japanese politics
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Aug 16, 2021 03:47
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Looking at Japan being the same hosed up hell hole as America...nah.
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Aug 16, 2021 03:57
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Dante80 posted:https://twitter.com/jamesabernard/status/1427069150006968320 humans have always lived as complete islands of isolation with no oversite at all. Then communism invented the village and everyone forgot about the free market Grapplejack posted:It's a misquote but Mao did basically say that, per Kruschev's memoir, or at least something close to it. while it's very 'hardcore' i think they may have been ignorant or grossly playing down the repercussions of nuclear war other than direct destruction. They acting like they'd just come out the bunkers and be in a world just as it was only with less people. Regarde Aduck has issued a correction as of 04:04 on Aug 16, 2021 |
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Aug 16, 2021 04:01
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Regarde Aduck posted:humans have always lived as complete islands of isolation with no oversite at all. Then communism invented the village and everyone forgot about the free market mao should have hired you as an advisor
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Aug 16, 2021 04:10
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Dollar hegemony is absolutely one of the dominoes in line to fall sooner than people think and I’m excited to witness first hand what happens when a frayed society has to absorb that psychic shock
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Aug 16, 2021 04:24
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lobster shirt posted:having watched every episode of legend of the galactic heroes, i consider myself a n expert on japanese politics  also i looked at the bad thread and lol quote:The taliban are just “religious assholes who banned big tits and fun.” Amazing. This is a dark, dark end of the Marxist rabbit hole
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Aug 16, 2021 04:38
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hey BrutalistMcDonalds, I remember you had a take before about how the pull-out from Afghanistan wasn't actually all that much of a draw-down because all of the official troops were getting replaced with PMCs. with the events on the ground this week, do you still think that's true? this is not, like, a call-out or an "I told you so" or anything like that, it's just that the video and pictures we've been seeing of the Taliban completely taking over the airport and people hanging on to cargo planes just to hitch a ride out paints a picture of a very comprehensive take-over of the country (or at least parts of it), so I'm kinda wondering if this is merely what the media is showing us even though Erik Prince's goons are still operating in-country
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Aug 16, 2021 14:51
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gradenko_2000 posted:hey BrutalistMcDonalds, I remember you had a take before about how the pull-out from Afghanistan wasn't actually all that much of a draw-down because all of the official troops were getting replaced with PMCs. id just like to add that im praying every single second of every day that all these mercs get ratfucked by the taliban
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Aug 16, 2021 14:53
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The US had 20 years to build a new Afghan state, and yet all they could make was a hopelessly corrupt kleptostate that everyone hates and nobody is willing to risk their life defending. If it had any meaningful support at all how could it collapse entirely in a few short weeks? What do liberals suggest as an alternative? 20 more years of kicking the can down the road? So that countless more people can be killed only for the exact same thing to happen anyways?
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Aug 16, 2021 14:55
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Agrajag posted:id just like to add that im praying every single second of every day that all these mercs get ratfucked by the taliban It always cracks me up whenever I see the brave trupps whining about dying in a war they signed up for.
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Aug 16, 2021 15:02
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gradenko_2000 posted:hey BrutalistMcDonalds, I remember you had a take before about how the pull-out from Afghanistan wasn't actually all that much of a draw-down because all of the official troops were getting replaced with PMCs. Erik Prince is busy making crack pot Covid vaccine in Taiwan lol. Also, the US was estimating the take over based on the South Vietnam timeline, but the Afghans are not stupid, the Nothern Alliance guys also looked into that timeline and must have negotiated their own handover themselves.
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Aug 16, 2021 15:50
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1426861228463427585
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Aug 16, 2021 16:05
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https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1427278219716202498 EDIT: Wrong thread but gently caress it
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Aug 16, 2021 16:10
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Afghanistan is still probably going to be a proving ground for PMCs and JSOC. It'd be wild to see PLA in country providing security for Chinese infrastructure projects. Close to 0 percent chance of this happening but just imagine the western Lib and Leftist crys of Chinese imperialism lmao.
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Aug 16, 2021 16:12
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Gorman Thomas posted:Afghanistan is still probably going to be a proving ground for PMCs and JSOC. whatever operator/pmc youre imagining that gets parachuted into afghanistan cant just simply walk into a friendly country to get out lmao you need these things called an airfield
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Aug 16, 2021 16:13
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https://mobile.twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1427246202966315013
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Aug 16, 2021 16:17
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The Wagner Group can probably do it over land
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Aug 16, 2021 16:18
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Wait why are we cheering for notable cia front group the taliban
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Aug 16, 2021 16:25
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i wonder how much of the hostility toward the american puppet state in afghanistan was influenced by the fact that chinas handing out railroads to their neighbors like candy but the afghanis werent allowed to have any because ewww chinese people are dirty and candys bad for you
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Aug 16, 2021 16:32
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Gorman Thomas posted:Afghanistan is still probably going to be a proving ground for PMCs and JSOC. I love how when the Chinese government says they're absolutely not going to do a thing, brokebrain Americans reflexively read that as "definitely going to do it" because obviously that's what their own politicians would do.
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Aug 16, 2021 16:37
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Benagain posted:Wait why are we cheering for notable cia front group the taliban I think it's more everyone lolling at the notable Cia front group the United States federal government
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Aug 16, 2021 16:50
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Benagain posted:Wait why are we cheering for notable cia front group the taliban we're not, just lolling at an a-tier humiliation for loser america
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Aug 16, 2021 16:51
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Cerebral Bore posted:we're not, just lolling at an a-tier humiliation for loser america watching america lose again in such a spectacularly humiliating fashion is pretty fun
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Aug 16, 2021 16:52
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Yeah I haven't had this much fun seeing USA get owned since 1/6 chuds making all the politicians freak out on Twitter.
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Aug 16, 2021 16:55
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https://mobile.twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1427267130467119104
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Aug 16, 2021 17:00
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The taliban were not CIA related as far as I know If you’re thinking of the Mujahadeen ,well, that was who Karzai’s family ran drugs abroad to fund, and Karzai is who the USA immediately placed into power But I wouldn’t expect CSpammers to know any history lol
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Aug 16, 2021 17:25
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Benagain posted:Wait why are we cheering for notable cia front group the taliban wrong intelligence agency 
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Aug 16, 2021 17:29
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All the original leadership of the Taliban had been part of the mujahideen but the group itself was formed after the government collapsed in 92 and all the different factions started fighting each other and robbing everything they could. The Pakistani intelligence service was very gung-ho about supporting the Taliban at first.
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Aug 16, 2021 17:52
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HerraS posted:The Pakistani intelligence service Holy poo poo...PIS!
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Aug 16, 2021 18:01
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https://mobile.twitter.com/georgesoros/status/1427244353714544644
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Aug 16, 2021 18:06
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1427245973110145032
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Aug 16, 2021 18:08
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https://twitter.com/PeterCronau/status/1427165766042800129?s=19
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Aug 16, 2021 18:17
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maybe im just a tankie but the taliban making moves like this seems to suggest that the people so desperate to escape the country we keep hearing about may not have been innocent angels and this may have some bearing on why weve been dragging our feet on the whole refugee issue
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Aug 16, 2021 18:25
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