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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Chechnya's situation in relation to Russia was fundamentally the same as Abkhazia and South Ossetia's regarding Georgia or Crimea's regarding Ukraine. Although that argument could be applied in...
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    Do codes of conduct ever mean much in practice? Historically, moral standards in warfare are a luxury usually quickly discarded whenever they become inconvenient.
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    I think IS already claimed responsibility (but they would anyway).
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    Probably not to the Palestinians, for obvious reasons.
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    Re: Lock him up! Former PotUS Trump indicted

    The Democrats really should have made it clear from the outset that Biden would only serve one term, and they'd find a different candidate for 2024.
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    The two are not mutually exclusive.
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    I think the implication was that it would be a reaction to atrocities committed by Israeli occupation forces (which would make sense for the West Bank population).
  8. Re: Taiwan Elections: Kuomintang Party ... wants peace with China! (The other China).

    Actually, Taiwan's de jure situation is a bit complicated. While both the RoC and PRC claim that the island was supposed to be ceded to China after WW2 (having been a Japanese possession before...
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    Poll: Re: Presidential primaries (2024)

    Except Biden is polling pretty badly.
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    Poll: Re: Presidential primaries (2024)

    It's a bit perplexing why the Democrats can't find a better candidate.
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    While you might be able to draw a comparison to apartheid for the situation in the West Bank, that comparison is not at all valid for Israel proper.
  12. Re: In the aftermath of USA 2024 elections, what are the chances of widespread violence?

    That was in a context where the US barely had a standing army to speak of.
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    Re: How Did The Romans Defeat The Greeks?

    It's more that Rome was better able to utilize manpower. The Seleucids and Ptolemies both controlled massive populations; the problem was that they were foreign ruling dynasties that didn't trust the...
  14. Re: In the aftermath of USA 2024 elections, what are the chances of widespread violence?

    Obama? At least he was younger.
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    Re: Alexander: Making of a God

    AFAIK Steppe horses were generally smaller than those used in agrarian societies because they had to be able to subsist entirely on grass rather than grain.



    Were horses in ancient Greece...
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    Trying to do that in the American context runs into a problem; even if Trump wins the Presidency, he may not have control of the legislature. Plus, there's also the state governments, and the blue...
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    Re: Alexander: Making of a God

    I think the largest horse breed of antiquity was the Nisean horse.

    The reference to ponies made it sound like the Macedonians should be using Steppe ponies or similar (rather than larger stall-fed...
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    Re: Alexander: Making of a God

    Didn't they have bigger war horses by this point? Alexander wasn't a steppe nomad.
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    That's kind of true everywhere; it is pretty rare for a society to regard crimes against 'the enemy' as a bad thing.
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    Re: Hannibal (the general) - Netflix.

    Frankly Denzel is probably darker than most Tunisians, let alone Lebanese.

    Do Americans simply not understand the difference between MENA people and black Africans?
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    That presumes they care, which they may not.
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Yanukovich's removal probably served many interests both domestically and internationally, but that's true of pretty much any change in politics. Events can be orchestrated by domestic political...
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    As I understand it, Yanukovich had seriously annoyed a lot of people before getting ousted. It's pretty clear that the Maidan revolution had broad support from the majority of the populace, even if...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Part of the Warsaw Pact =/= part of the Soviet Union.
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    Unless he's implying that Scholz is basically green-lighting Israeli massacres of Palestinian villages.
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    If the news about the Egyptians tipping off Netanyahu ahead of time is accurate, then either he was distracted as you say or he was arrogantly dismissive. The other possibility is that he did believe...
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    I'm inclined to wonder if this was the point to begin with. Once the IDF launches a ground invasion, there will start to be a lot of reports (exaggerated or otherwise) of IDF atrocities against the...
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    Re: How Did The Romans Defeat The Greeks?

    Unlikely; Classical Greek armies were significantly less well-organized than Hellenistic ones (let alone the Romans).
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    Also Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, whereas Palestinians (and other Levantine Arabs) are sedentary. This distinction is particularly relevant in Jordan.
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    Re: Hamas attacks southern Israel

    Isn't that basically advocating ethnic cleansing?
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    Re: Armenia - Azerbaijan

    In Georgia's case, the seccession movements and resultant conflicts started pretty much immediately after Georgia's departure from the USSR. Similarly though less dramatically, a seccession movement...
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    Re: Armenia - Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan in this case.

    Or more precisely, states which had been part of the USSR where ethnic tensions that previously were kept under wraps by the Soviets (to a point) were now opened up.
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    Re: Armenia - Azerbaijan

    How are they significantly different though? In both cases there's a separatist movement in a region dominated by a different ethnic group than the rest of a newly-formed state. Similar to the...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    I think that applies in any case where the original issue remains unresolved.



    Isn't that just a coalition? Being attacked by two powers on opposite sides who have an alliance isn't really...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    To be honest I've never really understood this description. It's not as if Poland and the Soviet Union were friends in the 1930s, and the Soviets already had pre-existing territorial disputes with...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    I don't think that's the issue here? There have been plenty of other cases of ethnically-motivated violence in the past century which are more comparable to the current situation.



    Well, it...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    Well, it wasn't the first time a "kill them all" order was issued historically. However, the usual reason was because a populace was particularly rebellious, as with e.g. the Dzungars or the...
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    Poll: Re: Russia, US, Ukraine, and the Future

    The Nazis were distinctly unique in this regard though. There are plenty of historical cases of imperial powers exercising brutality in crushing resistance, but it's usually simply a means to an end....
  39. Re: If a person can be transgendered, shouldn't that mean people can also be "transracial" or "transage"?

    I think it's reasonable to assume that gender in the linguistic context has a different meaning to what is being discussed here.
  40. Re: If a person can be transgendered, shouldn't that mean people can also be "transracial" or "transage"?

    Those things are connected, though. Absent some very unusual circumstances, a person's external sexual traits will match their genetics, because genetics are primarily responsible for determining how...
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