Past ghostwhowalksnz: Where have you been before 2020 when it was the US and nato that broke all the rules vs current ghostwhowalksnz: Theres no international rules based system- there is only might is right. Pick a lane, dude! Either might makes right, in...
It's entirely possible to see a nation as a strategic competitor, but at the same time seek greater co-operation and trade links if it's in the national interest.
... in to stop the Serbs re-invading and ethnically cleansing? Where...
Apologies, Weka. May have got carried way with my own rhetoric a bit.
Ye gods, am I getting sick of seeing all this morally bankrupt, intellectually lazy, "aMeRiCa BaD" bullshit dressed up and published as "analysis" by seemingly serious pseudo-intellectuals who tie themselves into knots trying to justify abandoning the ...
Who takes up the vice-president slot is an interesting question. Generally, the rubric for choosing a VP is someone that can bring either new state or new demographic into play, but also won't risk losing a governorship or senate seat. In this particular ...
Given that a swing of something like 20,000 votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin will be the deciding factor in the election, I'd be incredibly leery of anything that might dampen democratic turnout: including selecting a moderate conservative ...
You don't win public office in the US by being a shrinking violet. Newsom would be ideal for a lot of Democrats: he's got genuine progressive and populist bona fides, has great name recognition (important when voters won't have much time to get to know a ...
I'm pretty sure Kim Jong Un and Putin have better favourability with US electors than Biden right now. The sad thing is, very little of it is his fault. I suspect that in any other time and place he'd probably be recognized as an incredibly successful ...
Beshear is pretty much unknown outside of Kentucky and his position on guns and abortion would be super uncomfortable for lot of Democrats. Cooper has potential, but again lacks the national profile and name recognition. Remember that it's only 4 months(...
I'm afraid I agree with your pessimism, roblogic. But the big question is: having spent the better part of 150 painful years clawing our way to a society that at least acknowledges the ills of the past, and has the potential to forge a fairer, more just ...
To be fair, a lot of the case for using some kind of VIP transport is about the logistics of state visits. And it may well be that as useless and vacuous as Luxon is, he may well have been sincere in his promise only to run smack into the cold hard reality...
Good to see the coalition is delivering on their election promise to protect local democracy from overreach by central government. Between this, the compulsory Māori ward referenda, the fast-track legislation, and leaving council's carrying the can on 3 ...
Even better than that... Once they've got rid of all the "unnecessary" back-office staff and realize there's nobody able to build and maintain their business critical systems, most of these agencies will either need to bring contractors at absolutely ...
You're right - that does seem pretty conclusive
Technically, no. The challenge that went to Supreme Court was premised on several state's attempts to argue that Trump had committed treason and was therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president. This is different to the current problem triggered ...
In practice impeachment has proven to be functionally impossible, even when the President in question flat out commits treason. Most of the US constitutional guardrails were designed in an era before hyperpartisanship and political tribalism, and where the...
How quickly do you think those states will fall over themselves to change the law and allow him to both stand, and vote?
Don't spend it all at once :D It's not even a half a block of cheese tax cut.
And set the precedent that just because you're a former (and possible future) President, a political candidate, or a rabble rouser with a violent mob at your disposal that you're somehow above the law or get to be treated with kid gloves? Much like how in ...
On one hand, I've never liked Riccardo Mendez-March and found him, in general, to be a political liability for the Greens. On the other, dropping an f-bomb in Parliament is objectively hilarious and awesome.
Oh yeah, Libya. That was a thing. I'd argue that intervention in the breakup of Yugoslavia was morally necessary and the only think that stopped the situation turning into an even larger and more general bloodbath. Given the political and demographic ...
Seriously? Serbia was engaging in actual warcrimes. Hence all the ICC trials and drama about Slobadan Milosevic. And as for Israel, yup the US is culpable by providing too many arms and not enough political pressure. But the politicians approving a policy ...
It staggers me that anyone can take Russian foreign policy seriously post Ukraine, and Chinese policy at face value given their disdain for international law. As for NATO, the number of countries officially invaded by these out of control warmongers is ...
It staggers me that anyone can take Russian foreign policy seriously post Ukraine, and Chinese policy at face value given their disdain for international law. As for NATO, the number of countries officially invaded by these out of control warmongers is ...
Firstly, it's realpolitik. China that is a huge percentage of our trade and has the most to lose if our shipping links with them are shut down, is moronic If trade guaranteed peace, we would have had any wars since the end of the 18th century. And we'd be ...
The Minsk accords were about as genuine as the Pradda handbag I bought my Mum in the Philippines, and signed basically at gunpoint after Russia openly intervened in the civil war they stirred up Eastern Ukraine and secretly supported/unofficially fought in...
The Chinese police don't shoot people on the street nor do they send law enforcement thugs to Israe No, they just abduct people and ship them off to labour camps for sterilization and indoctrination. Subliminal, you and your fellow apologists amaze me. ...
And yet somehow the birthrates for Uyghurs in Xinjiang have been crashing, and the government maintains that the Uyghur population is "excessive" (过分). Sounds like ethnic cleansing to me. I accept that the PRC has a valid claim on Taiwan given the outcome ...
Oh, my bad, I forgot China is acutally an open, multiparty state with no secret police or internal oppression at all. /sarc So, all the pro-democracy activists and protestors are just making shit up when they aren't busy being jailed, deported to outer ...
When I was 4 or 5 or so, I learned very quickly that telling my parents "someone else made me do it" was a terrible excuse for bad behavior. If I can't get away with using it for breaking my mother's brandy balloons, why should an actual country with an ...
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