Dessalines @ dessalines @lemmy.ml

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Np!

Most of us have no idea what that is, might be good to link something.

Definitely. It'd be way too dangerous for them to hand the destroy the world keys over to a nation even Reagan had to tell to chill out.

I'm sure there's less than 30 people who know this, but I wonder if Israel is actually in control of their own nukes, or if the US is maintaining control.

I know the US tried to use Israel as an intermediary to give nuclear weapons to apartheid south Africa, and that probably came with restrictions of final US control also.

He's asking her, I think you got the bubbles mixed up.

Can anyone verify if Kyrgyztan is indeed, full of gamers?

The colors are great there, it works surprisingly well.

There's certainly a lot after that, but this Smedley Butler quote is from 1935:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

And of course there's the native american genocide, unparalleled in history, which mostly took place in the 1800s.

You dronies are so transparent. You only come out to decry X country as soon as the US or its vassals attacks it. Then its all both sides bad.

No country is perfect, but Iran is doing what very few countries are brave enough to do rn, and defending themselves from the child-killing scourge of the middle east.

Even if you oppose Iran's sovereignty or its theocracy, you'll have to admit that Iran's theocracy does far less harm than any given western country does.

For the 1800s (and probably earlier), definitely. Someones needs to make the equivalent of the list of US atrocities but for the UK.

And a bunch of dronies in other threads are going on about how "authoritarian" insert X US enemy country is.

No other country has committed more atrocities and wreaked more havoc on the world than the US in the 20-21st centuries.

Gemini is such a great idea (or any web browser that's basically as simple as reading markdown documents.

Mainly what it needs, is a service to convert existing web pages to its markup, either on the fly, or an archive.is type service, so that ppl can have a safe web experience.

The finders keepers rule of colonizers. We stole it, but you wanting it returned is stealing it too! /s

It's not up to you or me, or the israeli colonizers as to what happens to Palestine. That should be decided by the palestinian people themselves.

You seem to not be aware that Israel is another settler-colonial project, based on indigenous eviction and genocide, just like the US, Canada, Australia, etc.

I suggest watching these two vids :

• How Palestine became colonized
• Life in occupied Palestine

Settler colonialism a form of imperialism (theft of land, labor and natural resources of a weaker country by a stronger one), where the stronger country sets up a military garrison, and evicts or enslaves the local population. This is border conflict to halt the ever-eastward march of NATO.

The accusations of "russifying the ukrainian language" is pure projection; its the banderites who (with NATO help, Obama bragged about this one) couped Ukraine in 2014 (and who were killing thousands of civilians in the donbass) that have been attempting to make spoken russian illegal in the country. They've also been reviving nazi collaborators and building monuments to them as fast as they can.

It was the Bolsheviks (Stalin especially) who strongly supported the creation of a Ukrainian state, as it had a distinct national, lingual, and cultural character, while the western nations were opposed to Ukrainian sovereignty (The fascist dictatorhips of the 30s were essentially at war with all slavic peoples). Modern Russia wants to preserve Ukraine as a buffer state (as it was before 2014). There are many ppl more knowledgeable on lemmygrad and hexbear, that could give you a long background on this conflict.

Modern imperialism (usually) takes a different form from classical colonialism, but even with that definition, Russia can't be called imperialist as it fits none of the traits.

I can't find it, but there's a cool infographic / image that has all of them. I could only find one for the hammer and sickle variations:

Vietnam:

Angola:

Nepal for originality:

Every time I go to a bidet-less house, and see that they're going as unwashed as a 5th century peasant

Eastern Ukrainians weren't grateful to be bombed by NATO-funded banderites for several years in the donbass, nor were most Ukrainians glad to have their government overthrown in a US-backed coup in 2014.