Give it time...

The "war" in Gaza?

Seemed mostly like a nation state bombing refugees to me...

Pray? Is this the new federalized form of voting for November and onward?

Do what I say and I won't punch you, maybe.

There is no alternative. Just be thankful it's not the Soviet Union.

There's always an alternative.

Take it to the final form. It's game theory. The US is promoting system that enables a Nash equilibrium. By playing by the US' rules you empower yourself and you empower those around you. And the US takes a service fee for operating the market.

The alternative is trying to fight that, and if you're picking a fight with the strongest player, you're playing to lose.

> Take it to the final form. It's game theory. The US is promoting system that enables a Nash equilibrium. By playing by the US' rules you empower yourself and you empower those around you. And the US takes a service fee for operating the market.

This is what an empire, that is competently run, should do. The US is not an empire, and it is not competently run. It has no attributes in common with empires of history. It does not occupy foreign lands, it does not extract taxes, it does not (directly) control foreign governments. If anything, in this case, the US is under the control of a foreign government.

I suspect it's under the transactional control of whomever provides the details for a sufficiently large bitcoin wallet to Steve Witkov

I agree that's what the US used to do.

Now it's threatening to invade NATO allies, and other allies are deploying troops to deter that; Which makes perfect sense because you cannot appease authoritarians.

The US is in fairly rapid, self inflicted, decline at this point.

I have faith that the Americans will right the ship. "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."

They're just getting started on "everything else".

My sense is this is an inflection point, and it may take decades to play out. At that point, the world will have irreversibly changed.

I'm not sure what Iran having nukes does other than change the power dynamics in the Middle East to one where Israel can't bomb civilians with such impunity...

North Korea and Pakistan has nukes.

I think most people in the middle east will tell you that Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is bad. As I'm sure you're aware, they are a major supporter of terrorist organizations.

I'm aware that the present is informed by the past. 1953, like 1979, being a year in the past.

Discussing what terrorism is, in this context, is rather complicated. Especially speaking as a Brit, and knowing rather a lot of other dates, such as 1917.

It shouldn't be that complicated to acknowledge that Iran's proxies are about as cut and dry terrorists as they come.

It's surprising how many things that you would think are "cut and dried" are apparently in fact not "cut and dried", although granted it's much easier to identify instances that stray to one side of a boundary rather than another.

For example, the idea that bombing civilians is a war.

"we live in a fallen world"

derp

Video sensors are continuously getting cheaper, better and more more prevalent over time. The trend is towards capturing all angles of everything, everywhere, at increasingly higher resolutions.

Organic lie generating machine not given airtime shocker...

If you are expecting leaders of countries and media to be truth-telling machines, sure, you are in shocker. Stay tuned to your truth machines.

Every Brit has used the NHS multiple times.

It's far from perfect but no propaganda is ever required, just direct experience.

Every Brit has also used a Pub multiple times. Let’s nacionalize them and make them “free”.

I don't think anyone will complain about a cheap federally funded bar. And if they do they still have their fancy expensive bar to go to.

So what's the problem here?

What a lousy try at an argument