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  • Except... That's not at all what people are saying. It would be either Japanese airspace or Chinese airspace. It's not China claiming an island alone. It's China and some other party contesting the claims. Only the Western powers claim it to be international airspace.

  • Inerceptions always follow a process of escalation. You don't start an interception by going wing-to-wing (also because you don't start your interception in sovereign airspace).

    Also, in this case China recognizes that land as theirs and thus that the 12 nm around it are recognized as territorial waters. Thus, it recognizes that Canada intruded on their sovereign airspace... And in that context, China would be well within their rights to shoot the plane down. From what I understand, because it's disputed between China and Japan, Canada asked Japan for permission but not China.

  • At the end of the day, the vast majority of Ukrainians fought for the Red Army because it was known policy at the time that the Nazis sought to eradicate the Slavic Untermensch and that they wanted to seize Ukrainian farmland to starve the Ukrainians and feed the Germans. This only became more evident as the war went on. Ukrainians who joined the Nazis are complicit in the deaths of their countrymen.

  • Yes, but what spurred the Hamas attack on Israel?

    crickets

    You can't drag someone down to follow the chain of responsibility endlessly, because that's only going to end up falling to the British/American clusterfuck in the region post-WW2.

  • To join the Nazis? Fuck off.

    At the end of the day, the vast majority of Ukrainians fought for the Red Army against a nation who's policy literally involved the eradication of the Slavic races because they were seen as subhuman. Have you read Mein Kampf? Do you know how many Soviets died in the concentration camps? Do you know how many civilians Nazi Germany starved by doing exactly what you claim Stalin did to the occupied Soviet territories?

    Hell, half of the point of invading Ukraine was to capture the agricultural production, starve the Ukrainians, and use that to feed the German war machine.

  • The famine was caused by multiple factors and blaming it as if it were Stalin's genocidal policy is frankly revising history.

    Due to collectivization (giving up owned land to join the collective farm), landlords were very unhappy. Many resorted to slaughtering their own livestock in protest and many wealthy landowners indicated that they were "disincentivized" from working to produce grain in similar quantities as in the past. In the beginning, many Ukrainian nationalists took to murdering workers at collective farms to hinder their productivity. Moreover, the import/export relationship to the rest of the Soviet Union was weak as Ukraine predominantly produced foodstuffs (that were produced in increasingly high quantities in the Eastern territories because of collectivization) and not machinery (which had to be imported) - Ukraine's exports lost value while their imports gained value.

    I would recommend reading the works of Isaac Mazepa (a Ukrainian nationalist), Louis Fischer (an American journalist), and statements from both Stalin and the Politburo at the time. Stalin and the Politburo at large were aware that Kosior and Chubar were misrepresenting numbers, but not to what degree - thus, the aid they sent was grossly insufficient. Stalin butted heads with both Kosior and Chubar and was extremely critical of both of them. Both Kosior and Chubar were executed in the great purge under orders from Stalin.

    Famine struck Ukraine at an incredibly inopportune time in Ukrainian politics and led to the regrettable death of millions. Famine also struck in conjunction with typhoid fever and the rise of the OUN (emboldened by Hitler's success in Germany). You can read more about the OUN through Dmytro Dontsov's writings.

  • Do you understand Tibetan history up to that point? At least it's no longer a serfdom system (which Tibetan advocates will say was equal because of the one-in-a-million chance that one of the peasants can become the Dalai Lama and that everyone was totally happy because everyone was working towards bettering Buddhism). How many Tibetan refugees do you know who experienced serfdom?