SARGE

You know, I was considering putting the potential downside of "one country might just have a young and jacked leader that can thrash all the old rich people" but figured my comment was getting too long for anyone to care to read.

I think at that point the people would just have to chuck him in an active volcano instead of a pit.

Everybody gangsta till the snow starts speaking Finnish.

It's mind-boggling that the entire history of war hasn't been "our leaders decided they wanted a war so we tossed them in a pit with sharp sticks to figure things out and suddenly they decided war was avoidable"

We have more in common with a random American Crack dealer, a random middle-Eastern farmer, Chinese retail worker, South American factory worker, than anyone who leads major countries, anyone in the 1%.

I have no ill will toward any Iranian, in fact I've known quite a few immigrants and think better of Iran than most US states, yet my country leaders decided it was a good idea to bomb the fuck out of them. We should toss them in a hole until they can work together with the rest of us, yet here we are...

Surely imperialist countries with interests in an area wouldn't go and lie about things???

Next you're gonna tell me the US lied about WMDs in 2001...

Thanks!

Probably "medical examiner" or similar medical doctor that does work for the police to determine things like cause of death and other injuries possibly obtained while dying.

Source?

It's not really heartbreaking when you know the reason the worst person you know is even talking is to try and distract from their own shit.

Doesn't make it less true, just less heartbreaking.

The Budapest memorandum of 1994 ensured that the US and UK would "Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used"

That happened. It's a promise to bring the issue to the UN security council for a vote on action. Not a promise to invade any attacking country.

What also happened is that Russia, a seat on the security council, has the power to veto, and a conflicting interest here that the UN decided couldn't possibly be a problem in the future.

I'm not saying we have done enough.

I am, however, saying that we have held up our end of the agreement, as written on paper.

As far as I'm concerned, my country is 1/3 of the reason they're in this mess, so we need to step in and directly protect them at the bare minimum. Ukraine isn't safe until their borders are restored to pre-2014, their infrastructure is repaired and improved, and they have enough to defend themselves from Russia AND the US. And also the government stooges of Russia get put to death for forcing their population to fight and die against an opponent who never wanted a fight to begin with.

"Vladimir Putin says-"

Lemme stop you right there, pardner.

Don't care.

Because it's a lot easier to discredit a religious argument when the sermon cites "4th Thessalossians 67:B" and gives the most generic sounding paragraph with the one weirdly specific phrase they instructed the bot to include and em—dash thrown in for good measure.

At least if they all use the same manual, it's easier to pull over the ones who are on the fence.

I don't have a perfect memory but I do have a good one, and I can confirm that the pastor at my parents church when I was growing up re-used sermons from multiple years prior.

So at least some recycle. As expected, they are still just as (ir)relevant.