Exactly. Once the occupying force was removed from those countries the underlying ethnic conflict resumed openly. Similar things will happen elsewhere as US military power wanes.
Yes, and that claim is wrong. Germany has had 50,000 US troops stationed in it for 75 years and the most rebellious thing they've done is politely ask for their gold back (US said no). No need to subvert a country you already have firm control over.
Wow, published in 1909. Amazing how old (and wrong) this "economic mutually assured destruction" argument is.
I think it's popular today as a distraction from the fact that the American Empire is really held together by military occupations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America etc. and not economic ties. Obviously "we just want to make you rich" is much nicer sounding than "we will bomb you if you resist US hegemony".
Interesting. The McDonald's thing is sort of like saying that no two Soviet Socialist Republics have ever gone to war. It just means they aren't really sovereign independent countries acting on their own behalf.
It absolutely would be a betrayal of the people you'd be giving up on to not do everything we can to help them while we still can. You can advocate for or against taking strong action but you can't tell people you're allowing to die to not be upset about it.
For comparison, the death rate across all age groups of flu is 0.1%. Extrapolating out, a failure to contain the virus will still mean tens of thousands of young healthy people dying in every country. That's why governments are finally admitting "Herd Immunity/Flatten the Curve" without total containment is not an option.
Google, Microsoft, Apple and even Firefox have an incentive to reduce competition by making the web as complex as possible. If the web is to be free, it must be radically simplified. To call that a lost cause is just a self-fulfilling prophesy.
See the reply by masonic. The article makes no mention of this being different other than the added protection for the officers, but like I said the tone is clearly attempting to give that impression without actually saying it.
I'm really tired of being called a fascist for wanting to live in a country with boarders.
You certainly didn't misapprehend the narrative this article is trying to push. I don't think immigration enforcement should stop as a result of the pandemic, if anything we should be even more determined to discourage illegal entry.
That's the point. The people making the above arguments are unsympathetic racists. The fact that a subset happen to be members of the group they attack is quite odd but still just as wrong as others making those arguments.
I guess we should smash all the printing presses which are used to print books containing disinformation too. Should probably just burn all the books with disinformation already printed while we're at it. There are probably Russians spreading disinformation via the snail mail. Better let the government start reading everyone's mail too, lest they be spreading any disinformation through it.
That article says 50,000 accounts were "linked to Russia". Do you know who linked them to Russia and by what criteria? They weren't actually controlled by the Russian government because the article cites that figure at only 3,000.
The hysteria over Russia as an excuse to ignore the concerns of Americans who support populist positions is pretty transparent at this point.
By unambiguously taking this side of a highly partisan political issue, I fear TBL has lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of many of the people he needs to fix the actual problems that have befallen the web.
Do upper class americans really have an obligation to help working class americans if it means neglecting the millions of people in other countries who want jobs and are willing to work for less? Shouldn't we prioritize helping low income job seekers in poor countries before we sacrafice economic efficiency to create relatively high paying jobs for americans who already have a higher standard of living? Tariffs and welfare are expensive drains on the economy. If we continue to grow the labor supply and keep wages low, everyone will get richer, especially employers and immigrants who are much harder working are deserving of the American dream than drug addicted whites who are probably racist anyway.