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  92.  @favkisnexerade  what Elon should do is stop selling a solution to the problem back to the public, you and I can't shop our way out of this. And you need to learn not to fall for virtue signaling, meaningless tokenist acts of environmentalism. For example, like how the chinese government literally planted the world's largest artificial forest of over 300,000 trees.....sounds good right? Only it's a single species of tree, which means it's genetically susceptible to disease, that also quickly drains ground water in an already desert environment, and causing the entire situation to WORSEN You have to treat musk and everything he says and everything he does in the same objectifiable manner as the criticism that is being levied towards the world's technically "largest artificial forest" What he (Musk) needs to do, again I stress this, is open his own power generation plants (he can open whichever one he likes, wind, coal, nuclear, solar, natural gas, geothermal, etc.) run the darn things and then from his experience with energy generation, begin to and offer up suggestions for improvement in power grid efficiency, and usage. He also needs to realise that you can't reduce the amount of energy a nation uses and expect the high quality of life to continue unabated, if the US wants to stay at the forefront of the world it needs to consume energy no matter it's source, renewable or non and musk could be a louder voice in that situation, if he so chooses Musk should focus his efforts, if he really was concerned, on nuclear power research AND proper containment of spent material. There's already a site designated as the main storage site in Nevada by the federal government since the 1980s! it just needs to be built Musk could easily win that contract! Hell since it needs to be underground he could even go all crazy with his obsession with tunnels and even design the car from the ground up to transport the spent material to the final site! Because a small piece of nuclear material the size of a baby's fist out supplies a coal plant's entire year of burning That's simple economics right there! Trees also years to grow and even when grown it takes even more months to make a difference in carbon removal in the air But that's again also not the best, because there's pollutants in the air which trees can't recycle, such as Freon I stress that renewables aren't truly renewable if they require a significant cost in time before becoming effective, which is why I don't like any renewables save for geothermal. But sadly geography wasn't applied equally to this planet so not everyone gets the option of being on a geological active site so while I may like it it's a moot point
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  149. As a major tip for all you "potentials" just know that any transaction, including both withdrawals and deposits, that totals of 10,000$ or more is immediately flagged by the US government banking and law enforcement agencies. It's not flagged as in a potentially 'let's break the door down and seize all assets' but it is flagged as in it will be monitored for a possible explanation if the situation requires it. Also these monitoring periods can last for an extended part of time sometimes years if need be. Further these "flagged" transactions are cumulative. Meaning that even if they incorporated spread out payments if they still add up to the 10,000$ threshold they can still be flagged. Also when you deposit money into any account, it is considered to be seen as a profit and taxable income. So the idea of you running a failing business because you're taking a loss and not reporting any profits while your lifestyle and ledger says otherwise is another huge tell. A great way to deal with laundering is to target legitimate businesses that already deal heavily in paper cash exchanges, a good example of this not mentioned in this video would be the medical cannabis industry. By US federal law cannabis is still an illegal substance and the trafficking of federally prohibited substances are not permitted to use a banking account when conducting business transactions, such as employee payroll. This means that quite often paper cash is exchanged far more often in this industry for basic business services thus being far easier for "potentials" to participate in 😉 I hope you enjoyed these tips
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  227. I have to admit that I did enjoy Trevor Noah as both a comedian and a news broadcaster for a Time it was brief but I'm going to be frank and admit it but what's interesting is Trevor Noah is the exact reason why I had the Awakening moment commonly known to as the red pill Story Time very long typed post if you don't want to read Now my Awakening begins with just watching a normal episode of The daily show with Trevor Noah And in this episode they were doing a story on an inventor you might not have heard of but you've definitely heard of her products, Disposable diapers, and their inventor Marion Donovan I was intrigued I had written a college research paper on Marion Donovan and I knew a bit about her story so I was curious to see what Trevor Noah would do with it so I started to watch the rest of the episode... And brother let me tell you I was appalled my mouth hung open with just the incorrect factual statements the ensuing use of modern lenses of societal norms and standards as well as insisting the case of problems applied to her merely because of her era lastly, and most horrid in my opinion, how none of the talk the story gave was about celebrating her and the accolades she has received They made Marion Donovan out to be as if she was the poorest wretched creature to ever exist on this Earth they kept emphasizing how she was a woman competing in a man's world and how she lost all her rights to her inventions and she was eclipsed by what is a male dominated industry of inventon And she ultimately invented the disposable diaper to free her self and women from the idea of being left at home cleaning cloth filled diapers covered in poo and the whole time I'm listening to this I'm like "what in the world are you talking about?" Yes Marion Donovan was from the 1950s yes she was a very rare sight in that era of being a female inventor. And is it possible she suffered from discrimination for that? Sure maybe, but don't you go around fabricating of ideas about her suffering from it just because she's a 1950s woman Provide concrete examples a of that! This story was likely the very first time anyone was hearing of this talented lady and already your poisoning the perception of her with your own politics And the facts just kept getting more wrong, she didn't create the disposable diaper to push some feminist agenda she did it because she wanted to save time And that was her style actually, she focused a lot of her inventions to that of time savers for mundane things around the house and she continued to invent throughout the entirety of her life, a major fact they left out of her story Marion Donovan also didn't get her patents or ideas stolen, she sold them to an industrialist a man you may know today as Pampers and when she sold them she sold them for a million dollars making her a self-made millionaire in the 1950s no less You should be celebrating that fact!!!!! Trevor! Again no mention of her recognition and success, she has received accolades she was inducted into the inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 Now some people might try to stretch that oh well she was only inducted so late nearly 70 years later as a result of female acceptance and Feminist ideals And to that I had to counter, well it's hard to compare great inventors such as Nikola Tesla getting into the hall of fame easier than to someone gifted in the creativity of invention, but inventing things as mundane as the disposable diaper That's not going to get you into the Hall of Fame as fast as someone who literally invents one of the foundations of electrical industry, the Alternating Current, that we all use on a modern basis all those horrible presumptions, assumptions and then downright lies towards Marion Donovan were the alarm Bell, the light switch that went off in my head that said "you know what? I'm being manipulated right now" they're taking something that I already am familiar with about and they are twisting it to get me to view it through only one singular lens and I just couldn't believe it And ever since that time I have viewed every one but especially Trevor Noah with suspension and apprehension
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  418.  @bobbobbinson1841  Yeah no. The western world has done exceptionally well at celebrating and promoting foreigners and the foreign culture. China on the other hand does not. It is infamous for its denial of services to foreigners and it's own non-Han ethnic groups just look at the current situation for the Uyghurs, and the Manchus in the past. It only allows 3 foreign films a year to be seen in its entirety for god sake. No matter how long you reside in the country even if you marry a Chinese citizen if you are foreign you will never have the ability to gain social standing. You cannot be apart in their government, you can't run for mayor, you can't be a police officer, you can't have your religious practices be respected, you are openly discouraged from using your native language, and you cannot serve in their military meanwhile you can do all of this and more in the US. You will also never gain citizenship they only have Jus Sanguinis not Jus Soli. Unlike in the United States where once born on US soil you are automatically a citizen regardless of the status of your parents. And the application of Jus Sanguinis is very restricted to racial discrimination. If you do not look Chinese even though you had a Chinese parent you are not a Chinese citizen. An example is if a Black individual married a Chinese individual and their child had been born with black skin, nope you are denied citizenship of the Chinese nation. I can list more than just this but if you don't get it now that the West is actually promoting world cultures while the Chinese government is doing the opposite then no amount of words I will write us going to convince you.
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  462. The main reason why I support non proliferation of nukes isn't because I fear any war in which they're used its because I fear an nuclear mishap and accidental detonation The 1961 Goldsboro incident in North Carolina is proof of this: In 2013 Lt. Jack ReVelle, an EOD officer on the scene, recalled the moment: "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, 'Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch.' And I said, 'Great.' He said, 'Not great. It's on arm.'" Parker F. Jones, a supervisor at Sandia, concluded in a reassessment of the accident in 1969 that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe" He further suggested that it would be "credible" to imagine that in the process of such an accident, an electrical short could cause the Arm/Safe Switch to switch into the "Arm" mode, which, had it happened during the Goldsboro accident, could have resulted in a multi-megaton detonation Secretary of Defense Robert S. Macnamara in a Top Secret January 1963 meeting with representatives from the Departments of Defense and State, as well as the White House, used the Goldsboro accident to argue against the delegation of authority to use nuclear weapons to SACEUR, citing the possibility of accidental nuclear war. According to declassified meeting notes, McNamara "went on to describe crashes of US aircraft, one in North Carolina and one in Texas, where, by the slightest margin of chance, literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted"
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  480. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  661. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  935. The Wapanogg hired the Europeans to end their enemies and had a feast to celebrate the new alliance that's all the historical Thanksgiving ever was Prior to the colonization process the natives never saw themselves as a collective singular identity or a singular nation, there was some attempts once European colonial powers process started in the Americas via the French and British arrival like Tecumseh and Poundmaker but they were too little too late In fact most natives saw themselves mostly in the styling of by a small tribe of a few hundred and they would have rival blood enemies for life merely because they born of one tribe and their ancestors had feuded with another tribe that had hurt them generations past The collective identity nowadays didn't develop untill the time of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion which admittedly was the worst time for them as the constant wars with the various tribes and the US government started around then as well as the forced relocations The latter today would be considered ethnic cleansing, but you can't and in my opinion shouldn't go back and try and punish people of today for sins in the 1800s That sets horrible precident However you're right those wars started in the 1850s didn't end untill the last Native rebellion was put down in 1922 that's almost a century! But yeah pretty much the entire idea of Thanksgiving when it was being pitched to President Lincoln was to try and bridge the gap between a nation that had nearly split in two, via the civil war and promote reconciliation and reflection The idea of the holiday nowadays is completely changed and it doesn't have to carry its old symbolism symbols are allowed to change they are not static and don't need to stay the same And like you I agree we should promote this as a means of reconciliation and acknowledgement
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  1162. My scenario; The result of the referendum will be favorable to Catalonia and unfavorable to Madrid. Madrid will then dispute the result, declare it illegal, imprison activists and participaters. Catalonia will no doubt respond with an increased desire of seccession and national pride. Violence will now be seen as a means to uphold Catalonia's process to succession after the legal route to statehood fails. Pro-Catalonia supporters will find a target that carries symbolic meaning and its destruction will help eradicate said symbol of oppression. Madrid will no doubt respond with extremely forceful measures if said target was successfully destroyed. With violence erupting international attention will focus briefly on the area. Madrid and the government of Spain will use this attention to try and appeal to the UN security council and the EU to not recognize Catalonia as a nation. Meanwhile violence is increasing. Remeniscent of the Spanish civil war, with some commenters no doubt making the same comparison. Catalonia will be persuing its own method towards international recognition, likely citing claims as an unjustly conquered ethinic group with a distinct culture and language seperate from the rest of the Spanish people. Possibly appealing to that of a colonial status, with its people attempting to remove the powers of its colonial masters. The international community likely not wanting any more violence erupting in europe, from anyother competing Nationalist/Seccessionist ideals and a swift end to the conflict, will side with Madrid and provide economic assistance over military assistance. The businesses and tourism in the region of Catalonia are decimated after the violence began. And what few residents/ international travelers remain uneasy in the region. Governments around the world issue travel warnings to the region. Commenters begin to question the status of the EU once again, after Britan attempts to leave and spain is tearing at the seams. French troops are sent to the border to deal with refugees fleeing the region. Madrid is successful in supressing the violence and seccession movement. But the idea of independence remains in the mind of Catalonians. Madrid will now govern the region with a more militarized force to minimize chances of repeated violence. Much to the dismay of catalonians who now solidfy their beliefs for independence. And no doubt will reattempt seccession as a justified response to the increased mistreament of spanish forces.
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  1368. Invasion of The Kurill Islands The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция "Kuril Islands Landing Operation") was the World War II Soviet military operation to capture the Kuril Islands from Japan in 1945. The invasion was part of the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, and was decided on when plans to land on Hokkaido were abandoned. The successful military operations of the Red Army at Mudanjiang and during the Invasion of South Sakhalin created the necessary prerequisites for invasion of the Kuril Islands. Battle The operation took place between August 18 and September 1. The attack was made by the 87th Rifle Corps (Guards Lieutenant General A. S. Ksenofontov) of the 16th Army (Lieutenant General L. G. Cheremisov) from the 2nd Far Eastern Front, and elements of the Kamchatka Defense Area (Major General A. R. Gnechko commanding). Ships and transportation were drawn from the Petropavlovsk military base (Captain D. G. Ponomarev). The 128th Airborne Division also provided support. The islands were occupied by the Japanese 91st Infantry Division (Shiashkotan, Paramushir, Shumshu, and Onekotan), 42nd Division (Shimushiro), 41st Independent Regiment (Matua Island), 129th Independent Brigade (Urup Island), and 89th Infantry Division (Iturup and Kunashiri). The Japanese commander was Lieutenant General Tsutsumi Fusaki. Initial reconnaissance was undertaken on 18 August by a detachment of the 113th Separate Rifle Brigade (Captain-Lieutenant G. I. Brunshtein), carried by two mine trawlers (ТЩ-589 and ТЩ-590) to Rubetzu Bay on Iturup island. The landings on Iturup were continued by the 355th Rifle Division, which also landed on the smaller island of Urup. On August 23, the 20,000-strong Japanese garrisons on the islands were ordered to surrender as part of the general surrender of Japan. However, some of the garrison forces ignored this order and continued to resist Soviet occupation.[2] From 22 to 28 August, troops of the Kamchatka Defense Area occupied the Kuril Islands from Urup north. On 1 September, elements of the 87th Rifle Corps were landed by torpedo boats, mine trawlers and transports (departing from Otomari) on Kunashir and Shikotan in the southern Kuril Islands. This was an assault landing against Japanese resistance. On 4 September, 87th Rifle Corps occupied five smaller islands (Sibotzu, Taraku-Shima, Uri-Shima, Akiuri, and Suiseto).[2] After September 4, Soviet forces occupied the rest of the Kuril Islands without further resistance. The islands remained part of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Kuril_Islands
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  1417. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  2012. I can't speak for Afghanistan but I will say the Iraq War was the closest to been a success IF the Bush jr administration had justified it by the removal of Saddam Saddam who was a military dictator, hell bent on the genocide of the Kurds, and had authorized use of chemical weapons via a poison gas (which is technically a WMD according to international law) Not by them falling for faulty intelligence supplied by the Iranians and Pakistanis claiming that in addition to their former usage of chemical weapons (which yes Iraq did technically have WMDs during the 1980s and 90s in the form of poison gas chemical weapons and they used them on the Kurds in Iraq and Iran in the Iran-Iraq war) Iraq was "attempting" to build WMDs of the nuclear variety which we know the Bush administration naively fell for Had the bush administration just focused on the removal of Saddam and then later packed up and gone home and then later let Iraq themselves deal with the aftermath of governance then, yes they would have been justified: Removal of dictator? Check Military Intervention for prior usage of Chemical weapons (a WMD) in a previous decade? Check Minority population suffering a literal holocaust like event? Check But no, they didn't do that they stayed and tried to do an occupation and nation building in a country that they knew next to nothing about and while there were some successes: Convicting Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti "Chemical Ali" for crimes against humanity & genocide in 2007 and his execution in 2010 they are vastly outweighed by occupation's failures
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  2149. Warning Slightly Long Post!!!!!! - still recommend you read regardless though For Ana, I will admit takes a lot of stones for someone like her admit they were in the wrong on this large of a scale and I can give a little respect for that..... Not a lot, but a little It's very much reminds me of the woman who made the documentary about the men's rights movement, called The Red Pill (She also made a TED talk which I HIGHLY recommended that you see it. Its actually one of the few good ones) She was the epitome of the spiteful raging feminist and she openly admitted that, but she forever changed her views as she researched her subject matter more intensely to make sure her documentary on men's rights was up to her own high standards And in her Ted talk she said something that I'll personally never forget: "When you begin to humanize with your enemy, you will in turn be dehumanized by your community" And that's exactly what happened to her; Overnight her friends and acquaintances she had known for 20+ years, who had cheered her on in her job as a journalist and documentary director, dropped her faster than you wouldn't believe Called her every nasty name in the book, boycotted her, slandered her you name it And to her it was mind blowing because she never got this vile treatment from her supposed "enemy" that her extreme feminist individuals drilled into her were her enemies They all came from former "allies" she had built up a lifetime of capitulating to, and while she admits in her own words: "no longer calls herself a feminist" the experience helped her grow as a person
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  2646. You forgot the Russian Invasion of the Japanese territory of the Kurill Islands!!!!! Here is to help you remember Invasion of The Kurill Islands The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция "Kuril Islands Landing Operation") was the World War II Soviet military operation to capture the Kuril Islands from Japan in 1945. The invasion was part of the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, and was decided on when plans to land on Hokkaido were abandoned. The successful military operations of the Red Army at Mudanjiang and during the Invasion of South Sakhalin created the necessary prerequisites for invasion of the Kuril Islands. Battle The operation took place between August 18 and September 1. The attack was made by the 87th Rifle Corps (Guards Lieutenant General A. S. Ksenofontov) of the 16th Army (Lieutenant General L. G. Cheremisov) from the 2nd Far Eastern Front, and elements of the Kamchatka Defense Area (Major General A. R. Gnechko commanding). Ships and transportation were drawn from the Petropavlovsk military base (Captain D. G. Ponomarev). The 128th Airborne Division also provided support. The islands were occupied by the Japanese 91st Infantry Division (Shiashkotan, Paramushir, Shumshu, and Onekotan), 42nd Division (Shimushiro), 41st Independent Regiment (Matua Island), 129th Independent Brigade (Urup Island), and 89th Infantry Division (Iturup and Kunashiri). The Japanese commander was Lieutenant General Tsutsumi Fusaki. Initial reconnaissance was undertaken on 18 August by a detachment of the 113th Separate Rifle Brigade (Captain-Lieutenant G. I. Brunshtein), carried by two mine trawlers (ТЩ-589 and ТЩ-590) to Rubetzu Bay on Iturup island. The landings on Iturup were continued by the 355th Rifle Division, which also landed on the smaller island of Urup. On August 23, the 20,000-strong Japanese garrisons on the islands were ordered to surrender as part of the general surrender of Japan. However, some of the garrison forces ignored this order and continued to resist Soviet occupation.[2] From 22 to 28 August, troops of the Kamchatka Defense Area occupied the Kuril Islands from Urup north. On 1 September, elements of the 87th Rifle Corps were landed by torpedo boats, mine trawlers and transports (departing from Otomari) on Kunashir and Shikotan in the southern Kuril Islands. This was an assault landing against Japanese resistance. On 4 September, 87th Rifle Corps occupied five smaller islands (Sibotzu, Taraku-Shima, Uri-Shima, Akiuri, and Suiseto).[2] After September 4, Soviet forces occupied the rest of the Kuril Islands without further resistance. The islands remained part of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Kuril_Islands
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  2758.  @uncleadi  The Western alliance, with it's american leadership, wasn't all that Western. It contained defensive pacts with more than 60 countries...from S. Korea, to Pakistan, to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Argentina with NATO at it's core. This was a bundle of nations that weren't ideologically aligned, and some of them even hated: (Pakistan/Israel) or went to war with each other: ( Turkey/Greece, Argentina/UK) despite being supposedly on the same side but they all were united in one commonality, they all opposed Soviet Communism Which resulted in weird entangled networks of military assistance; Where the Americans sent Israeli weapons, to Pakistani officials, to arm Saudi fanatics, in a war against the Soviets in Afghanistan However when Soviet Union collapsed the alliance lost the one thing which kept it together, the enemy This resulted in an American sphere of influence with no unified purpose The American presence, once seen as a protector, increasingly began to be seen as an American occupation abroad. And as an entanglement in foreign conflicts at home These entanglements compounded by: 1) conflicts within that sphere of influence 2) the lack of commonality by ideology or purpose 3) And the eventual attack against the main guarantor of that alliance from within supposed allies Became increasingly unpopular EXAMPLE: The US has had close military ties with Pakistan since the 1950s, as Pakistan's rival India allied with the Soviets but as the cold war ground itself to an end that relationship became strenuous. Pakistan aided terror groups, such as the Taliban, even as they were fighting the Americans Secretly built a nuclear weapons program with the help of one of America's biggest rivals (China) Harboured and provided safety to enemies of the United States (Bin Laden) And used military assistance to train terror groups to undermine a neighboring democratic society All of it, while it remained a dictatorial, Islamist, Theocracy Now the network of allied nations the US had built to coordinate against a common enemy, had unfortunately turned into a network of entanglements of conflicting interests, ideologies, and ambitions
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  2956.  @jellyfishi_  no that's not it, he's on point when he mentions that powerful nations are primarily interested in less powerful nations or the less powerful groups within that same nation for resource extraction, in this case oil, everything else is secondary The issue was he failed to take into account a larger and historical world view of this problem: Such as the imperial Japanese invading south east Asia to secure oil fields when the US began an oil embargo towards them for aggressive actions to neighboring countries Present day Australia annexing a small piece of Tongia's EEZ to secure oil extraction Portugal trying to lobby and let the UN rewrite the definition of continental shelf and international waters triple it's legal size in the Atlantic ocean and expand its EEZ for oil extraction China claiming to be a "Near Artic Nation" and wants a voice in the Artic much to the annoyance of Russia for you guessed it, beginning phases of Artic oil extraction Canada using a sonic cannon to map the sea floor in Nunavut for oil extraction companies much to the annoyance of indigenous tribal groups who depend upon migratory fish and seal stocks as their primary means of food Iraq invading the sovereign nation of Kuwait literally quoted by then dictator Saddam Hussein as for securing oil extraction Iran suffering from a rebel separatist group in their south eastern provence on the border of Iraq wanting that provence to become independent since it had most of the Iranian oil fields and those provencal leaders wanted to keep the wealth from the central Iranian government (That same group would go on to cause the Hostage situation in London in the 1980s with support from Iraq) The United Kingdom not very open to listen to the idea of a second Scotland's independence referendum as Scotland has all of the UK's oil extraction business Donald Trump attempting to order the secretary of the interior to open up all coastal states for offshore oil extraction (except Florida) clearly playing favorites with the state level governments China again giving support and Chinese weapons/anti riot materiael to disgraced Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro during his crackdown to ensure the continuing extraction and sale of Venezuelan oil to China China for the third time on this list for the famous/infamous (depending on your views of the man) Donald Trump "Caught Red-handed" tweet of a Chinese oil tanker offloading oil into a North Korean oil tanker trying to bypass international sanctions
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  3258. "'Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist this is elementary common sense if you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other". "Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present onein practice; 'He who is not with me is against me'." You might think that quote came from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney or some other (insert here) disliked authoritarian figure, but it's actually a quote from George Orwell and what's more it's objectively true The context in which George Orwell says this was in the outbreak of the second world war. During its first year a wave of pacifist sentiment swept Britain, during which protests and town hall debates where many figures argued for peace with the Nachizs. Orwell took it upon himself to travel from town hall to town hall to debate the case for war with Hitler and it was during those days and during those debates that he made that statement The anti-war movements finally went silent once German bombs started dropping on London, at least in Britain In 1940 however there were students in the US protesting for peace with Hitler in California's own Berkeley college, probably not something they'll mention on campus these days The public debate on foreign conflict and military conflict mostly goes in One singular direction: 1) That is if the military intervention fails or is built on very faulty justification those who commanded it will be held to account 2) However, if a military intervention succeeds or is built on a very solid justification those who opposed it will not be put into a position of responsibility For example: Take British member of Parliament Jeremy Corbin, who opposed the 1990 intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, including retroactively And even goes out to eat pizza with those who still today deny the Bosnian genocide (Marcus Papadopoulos) by Serbian forces However you will be hard-pressed to find anyone questioning him on this outside of the Bosnian media Henry Kissinger is notorious for his attempts to needlessly prolong the Vietnam War and his attempts to undermine Chilean democracy through support of Pinochet's coup You will however barely see Kissinger held to account or criticized for his actions of the Bangladesh genocide of 1971 Where the Pakistani army murdered hundreds of thousands of people and Kissinger gave the crimes his seal of approval through diplomatic silence and congratulated his Pakistani allies at how "well" they supposedly managed the situation The genocide itself didn't stop until India conducted a military intervention against the Pakistani army something that Kissinger condemned" Kraut, - America's Foreign Entanglements
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  3516. For the Love of Pete I dislike having to explain this over and over again but I will if I have to When it comes to Ukraine becoming their own Nation in 1991 and the concept of them having nuclear weapons the ukrainians did not ever at anytime have the ability to utilize those weapons that the Soviets placed in the nation what the ukrainians had when they gained independence from the Soviet Union was control over physical area of the silos in which they resided in they had no means to press the red button themselves any and all codes were kept in Moscow in the Kremlin and they were never released to the Ukrainian government when they gained independence and they were never released to the Ukrainian government when they were Soviet socialist republic And that's why Ukraine in 1994 was more than eager to get rid of those weapons because they wisely recognized their existence would be possibly be used as a justification by Russia to do a special military action to "recover" their lost technology the US happily agreed to assist Ukraine because the US just likes the idea of less and less countries having nuclear weapons and I don't blame them I completely agree with that view the less countries having them the better And Russia agreed because Russia just wanted their lost technology back and they even though don't like the US they still have the same pragmatic viewas the US: whereas the less countries that have nuclear weapons the easier it is for the Russians to exert influence over those exact same countries
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  3941. Solowarrior1221 You are absolutely correct, the US could have out produced them by any industrial capacity in 1945. However the entirety of the Japanese mindset had eliminated the very idea of surrender. It didn't exist in the culture. For over two years thousand years of Japanese warfare culture there were only 3 outcomes when it came to deadly conflict; victory, death with honor, or death without honor. If the Japanese held one thing highest of all else it was their pride and honor. And that was noticed by the allied forces. They were not kidding when they reached the conclusion in 1944 after Iwo Jima that the Japanese would rather destroy their entire people, culture, and identity than suffer dishonour by defeat at a foreign enemy. Nothing could break that Japanese mentality, not even atomic weapons and millions of casualties. It took a very small Japanese minority of western learned men to realize that the ENTIRETY of Japanese identity and it's civilization was on the line, and they HAD to convince the nation to surrender. Which was no easy task and it was potentially deadly. When Prime Minister Kinoe tried to act on the Orders of the Showa, he was nearly killed and imprisoned by the military officers who launched a coup attempt immediately after the Emperor's decision and broadcast. It was quickly put down. But that goes to show how fanatical they held onto the belief. Not only that a large number of units that did finally hear the Emperor's order thought it was a trick and ignored it. There is a case of one Japanese soldier who continued to fight until 1974, and wouldn't quit until his commander personally told him to stop. That right there shows the dedication the Japanese as a whole had to the idea of not surrendering to a foreign enemy.
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  3945. Unfortunately it is China as seen by international community. China was deviously cunning to have never given "de jure" recognition status. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  4373. The struggle against Sinocization in Tibet goes back centuries. Basically Tibet is the Poland of Asia, disappearing from the map in 1720, reappearing in 1912 and again disappearing in 1951 In 1720 the Imperial Qing government launched an expedition into Tibet under the pretext of defending it from a common enemy. Tibet was soon annexed afterwards. But Tibet didn't accept Qing rule resulting in a revolt in Lahsa in 1750 which the Qing brutally put down. Tibet struggled with Qing rule off and on until the fall of the Qing. Tibet was able to recover it's national sovereignty with the assistance of the world's strongest military at the time, the British Empire. Who utilized it's geo strategic position as a buffer state. Despite the security guarntee from the British Empire Tibet never became a colony. Likewise it also never achieved de jure status of international recognition instead being able to achieve the de facto status. This would severely limit the Tibetan struggle in the future. After WW2 the UK couldn't continue with its security commitment to Tibet and recalled its troops. Tibet was left without any international recognition but the Chinese were still occupied with their civil war however the Tibetan government knew it was only a matter of time as both the Communists and the KMT claimed Tibet as part of China. Tibet attempted to reach out to both the United Nations and the Chinese government to gain it's legal status as a sovereign territory but the UN was focused on the European rebuilding effort and the establishment of Israel it couldn't focus on the Tibetan cause who in 1946 wasn't a UN member. Tibet then approached the government of China in 1946 but the Chinese civil war had outlasted WW2 was still ongoing so no response was received to grant Tibet it's full legal status. With the victory over the KMT in 1949 Mao and the communist forces moved west to "reclaim" Tibet and 1951 Tibet was returned to its second period of Chinese rule. Tibet has since tried to wither the erosion of Tibetan customs and traditions as best it can.
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  4420. damnthosetorpedos I welcome your criticism and would love to engage you in debate my new friend. Its rare to find another who is knowledgeable of mesoamerican culture far beyond that of standard schooling. So firstly I would like to ask you to find me a reference for this toy wheel and I will retract my statement. As for the "perceived bias" I can understand why you feel that. I didn't learn anything new about Mesoamerica until my second year in higher education and a semester abroad in Mexico City. Which just as you would expect they are just as divided over this bit of history as us scholars but for different socioeconomic and political reasons. But what I have written in previous comments comes from the codices that were written by mesoamerican natives after the conquest and from the manuscripts found in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (National Library of Spain) The Aubuin Codex for example does explain the often misued Aztec name for the empire. And yes I am afraid there were tribes liberated by the Spaniards and continued to thrive after the conquest, the Otomi and the Tlaxcalans are just two examples, there are many more. But the Tlaxcalans are the most notable because their case was indeed heard by the Spanish King, King Charles the V, (there are records of this) The King was also against the mistreatment of the natives and wanted to end the ecomienda system but was unable to sell this idea back at home to his nobility as the ecomienda system brought them and the Spanish realm as a whole large wealth. All this is to say that you must remove the blinds that you are familiar with concerning Mesoamerica. As I said in an earlier comment the Mexica were invasive themselves arriving in the valley of Mexico last and set up a city state using not diplomacy but through brutal force and intimidation. You cannot deny the fact that inequality and brutality existed in Mesoamerica long before Europeans arrived. I don't want to push a narrative which is why I will offer you my sources and which is why I welcome your different opinion. I hope we can continue to improve the understanding that the uneducated don't have on this topic and I hope you will continue to look for corrections. Thank you so much have a good day.
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  4422. Yes the CSA was a lost cause because by 1860 slavery in the Western Hemisphere was already dying and gasping it's last breath. Multiple nations had already outlawed the practice. But it wouldn't die in a flash no slavery would die in stages Possibly the first domestic policy the US participated in to end the international trade was the slave trade act of 1794. which prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in the U.S. for use in the slave trade. The U.S. Constitution barred a federal prohibition on importing slaves for 20 years. This was expanded further with The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 this provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. These were almost completely unenforceable by the federal government to the States but it signified the federal government position on the issue and made it extremely clear to the rest of the nation. One of the first on the international scale of which the US was privy to for the death of slavery was as far back as 1812 with the negotiations of the treaty of Ghent. This treaty ended the war of 1812 between the US and the British Empire. During the fighting the British freed many American slaves. The British Empire didn't return these slaves but instead paid compensation for them. In these negotiations both nations acknowledged the moral wrong of slavery and agreed to work together to the end of practice in the Western hemisphere. In 1820 with the La Amistad incident, the question of slavery on the international scale once again rose to center stage. And as a result the British Empire continued to focus it's combat against slavery with the already established West African Squadron. It would often arrest American slave ships coming from Africa and destroy slave stations all along the west African coast. By the time of 1860 and the outbreak of the US civil war nations all across the Americas and those who participated in the Atlantic slave trade has already abolished or were in the process of banning the practice. Denmark was the first slave trade participant to ban the practice in 1803. Mexico banned the practice in 1829, Sweden banned it in 1813, France had negotiated with the British Empire in 1814 to ban the practice in 5 years. Chile in removed the practice in 1823, Argentina in 1853, Colombia in 1851, Canada in 1833, Venezuela in 1854. It was only a matter of time for the slavery to reach its eventual death. Now all that said the practice of slavery of Africans did indeed continue well past 1865 and into the beginning of the 20th century with a few examples of such actors as the Sultanate of Oman, the Kingdom of Leopold by Belgium and the Ottoman empire. These vile acts were eventually all taken down mostly in the aftermath of WW1. But slavery still is a continuous problem for Africa in very rural isolated communities. And I think learning about it from a perspective larger than solely an American one will not only help heal the scars but even find solutions to those who suffer from it still.
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