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| the bizarre international legal regime of today, which makes it basically impossible for Western countries to win wars |
| 2025-05-26 |
| [X] Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630 Something at work here is the bizarre international legal regime of today, which makes it basically impossible for Western countries to win wars. At any other point in history, including some as civilizationally advanced as our own era, Israel would simply have said: "An ancient enemy unprovokedly attacked us, and rape-murdered 1,200 people. We are going to strike back and annihilate their country. Not everyone will die, but the whole people will be broken and forced into unconditional surrender, or moved far away from our borders." This is, frankly, a natural way to feel and a logical policy to implement. But, today, openly explaining it would leave a state open to claims of "ethnic cleansing," etc. Non-Western countries - China, the now-Jewless Arab countries - basically just laugh at these allegations. But, Western ones obsessively try to avoid them. This context creates the weird pattern where Israeli leftists and centrists obsessively worry about "the commission of some war crimes" - while fighting an enemy that literally entrenches under grade schools and uses kids as human shields, and while at some level obviously hoping that the universally hostile Gazan population can be...persuaded to move. So, I mean, there's that. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Non-Western countries - China, the now-Jewless Arab countries - basically just laugh at these allegations. Cartels, Russians, North Koreans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Spanish Mexicans vs. Indian Mexicans, Californians ... wherever a privileged class is in power and defending their reign. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-05-26 09:12 |
| #1 Carthago delenda est |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-05-26 07:28 |