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The Random, Meaningless Political post thread
- Thread starter Estro Felino
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I'd love to help kids learn, but I'd be afraid to teach in today's public schools.
Cuban president lays blame for conflict in Ukraine on US
TEHRAN, Apr. 14 (MNA) – The responsibility for the crisis in Ukraine lies entirely with the United States, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told a Lebanese reporter.
Well, we had our chance back in 1898. If our government chose to do so, they could have kept Cuba as a U.S. territory, just as they did with Guam and Puerto Rico after the Spanish-American War. It was also the same year we annexed Hawaii.
The trouble with the U.S. government is that it bends over backwards to keep up appearances, while shooting itself in the foot and weakening U.S. interests. The idea that our government can control other countries through proxies and puppets, while passing off the image that we support independence, sovereignty, and the liberation of other nations, has always been folly.
The Bay of Pigs is a perfect example. If Cuba was really that much of a threat, then they should have simply invaded outright, rather than put together some kind of facade just to keep up appearances. It was much the same mentality in Vietnam.
Our government is far more concerned having the outside world like them and consider them noble, and this psychological insecurity is our greatest weakness. Nobody could spread dangerous lies about us if we chose to be honest.
I almost immediately deleted that post, because I didn't want to provoke fighting. I didn't delete it fast enough. I don't want USA to conquer Cuba. I think that with the death of the baby boomers our nation is likely to become more warlike. There is a chance that we will become thirsty for territory. The boomers were absolutely against conquering territory, but recent generations have grown up seeing endless unwinnable wars. There is a way to win wars. They don't have to be unwinnable, but you have to take territory. This is the evil that the boomers reject.
Bravo DeSantis
I think it goes back to the 1920s, in the period after WW1, when the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed, which essentially outlawed aggressive warfare and/or wars of conquest. (Kellogg–Briand Pact - Wikipedia)
The UN Charter also contained the same declaration about aggressive warfare. But if we applied the same principle to condemn and prevent any kind of behind the scenes intrigue or wars by proxy, then that would have made US involvement in coups in Guatemala, Chile, Iran - or the Bay of Pigs in Cuba or our intervention in Vietnam - just as egregious as Hitler's invasion of Poland or Putin's invasion of Ukraine. If we view all of those events on the same moral plane and consider them to be equally wrong, then that may be a sign of human progress.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Are you sure? He's a democrat.
So Melania's parents left the beautiful mountains of Slovenia and moved to Florida...
well...the Bora wind is a dry-cold wind that freezes you instantly...
Meanwhile, in India...
www.vice.com
This Top Cop Is Accused of Extreme Torture Including ‘Crushing Testicles’ and Pulling Teeth
An average of five people die in police custody in India every day, according to official data.
www.vice.com
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Sure I'm sure. I'm an independent. I've voted for various parties, including both Democrat and Republican, over the years.