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I can’t believe the Brits lost them. I thought they were holding all the artifacts there for safekeeping as a goodwill gesture to the rest of the world.

'Leave our country': Indian students living in constant fear in Ukraine amid hostility (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

The challenges for Indian students pursuing medical degrees in war-torn Ukraine show no signs of abating, as they grapple with increasing hostility from sections of the local population, who perceive India as supporting Russia in the ongoing conflict. The situation has escalated since Ukraine initiated its recent offensive...

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Exactly. If those students want to stop being targeted, they should stop their government instead of blaming Ukraine for the violence. In a sense, they are the real perpetrators and Ukrainian “racism” is nothing more than self-defense.

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Woah woah hold on there buddy. You wouldn’t blame Australia when some Australians are sexual assaulters would you?

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I specifically mentioned Australia due to its rampant rape culture. Just because you’re not aware of it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

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npr.org/…/australia-parliament-assault-sexual-har…

theguardian.com/…/myths-make-it-almost-impossible…

www.aihw.gov.au/reports/…/summary

It’s been a major, major issue reported on by news organizations all over the world, and acknowledged as a huge problem by the Australian government as well…

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It is known world-wide. Western media has been covering it for years. I don’t live in Australia and I know about it.

Minimizing the rape culture of Australia only hurts its victims.

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When I say minimizing, I don’t mean you personally making excuses or apologies for SA. Of course you wouldn’t do that.

I’m referring to the societal minimization where despite years of news and research, people still don’t acknowledge it as a widespread problem.

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Yes, it’s like that in much of the world. Australian laws until recently silenced SA survivors for example as I linked down below. It’s good that you’re learning about it and engaging with it. Rape culture must be stopped world over.

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Exactly comrade. It’s not active malice, but the the lack of acknowledgement that constitute much of rape culture.

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As I mentioned somewhere up the thread, I’m not talking about you personally. I’m talking about the lack of societal acknowledgement and awareness regarding the issue. When 63% of women working in the Australian parliament report being sexually harassed as I linked above, and there are years of newspaper articles from all over the world regarding it yet there’s no societal awareness of the problem something has to change.

I’m not talking about you personally of course. I’m sure that you are against rape culture that is prevalent in Australia, Japan, and much of the world over.

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They’re 10% positive on the West? Thank you for this valuable information comrade. We’ll be sending them back to the reeducation center for ideological training purposes.

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Unless the Russians abandoned all of good Soviet military doctrine (which is quite possible since they’re so virulently anti-communist), that is the furthest from the truth possible.

The Soviet military doctrine has been Deep Operation since the founding of the nation, where there is no single hard battlefront, instead keeping the combat line deep and flexible. Unless there is significant evidence to the contrary, I would assume that the operational paradigm for the Russian military remains the same.

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The problem of that approach is that winter is coming soon and battles will soon ground to a halt. Which will give Russians the time to build up their defensive layers again.

Spring offensive of 2024 will commence afterwards. And then the spring offensive of 2025, 2026, 2027…

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It’s not exactly a line. It’s miles and miles of defensive fortifications, entrenchments, units, and supply lines in a myriad configurations. There’s no breaking through it in a traditional sense. Like I said earlier, the entire doctrine of warfare is different, like how the US armed forces doctrine is based on aerial support.

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That’s exactly what I’m talking about. How is that a line to break through? It’s a mesh of defensive fortifications miles deep.

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Your own map shows fortifications all over the theater. Yes, there’s more concentrated towards the front naturally. Are you talking about that?

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Yes, exactly. The soviet defensive doctrine is partially inefficient because they wanted the entire operational area to be hardened without a specific weak point to exploit or breakthrough. The offensive army is forced to Trudge 😉 through the entire region.

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In May, a court rejected Lai’s bid to halt his security trial on grounds that it was being heard by judges picked by Hong Kong’s leader. That is a departure from the common law tradition China promised to preserve for 50 years after the former British colony returned to China in 1997.

Don’t tell me that British laws are actually that corrupt. No way, right?

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Hong Kong’s leader handpicked judges because the UK does it as well. This sounds very corrupt, but maybe it sounds normal for the Brits.

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Good on Chinese regulators for shutting it down. Someone has to be the adult in the room and say no to all the rampant M&A happening worldwide.

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Spineless Australia can’t protect their own citizens from the US but they still delude themselves into thinking that they’re partners with America, not a lapdog.

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Yes, but countries like France will at least resist and denounce American attempts that infringe upon their sovereignty.

Yellow-bellied Australia is unique in their submissiveness even amongst American allies.

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America.

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Of course, this operation was Russia’s idea, but it blew up in their face. So America wins big by grinding through Russian equipment and army by just handing over their outdated equipment to Ukraine. Where does Russia puppeting America come into the equation? You seem very conspiracy minded.

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Three million dead due to the Afghanistan war alone wasn’t brutal enough for you?

The systematic, institutional rape and torture of men, women, and children in Abu Ghraib was more brutal than anything defined in Sharia law but we still pretend that the occupation was clean.

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No serious athlete will want mickey mouse medals if the real competition isn’t there.

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Developing world too. It’s fucked how there’s no jobs or wealth for Gen Z globally. We as a society failed their generation so much.

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The West has been doing that for the past year and a half already. It’s not like putting undertrained Ukranian pilots in F-22s against Russian SAMs will affect the outcome of the war drastically.

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It’s crazy how the real economy correlates with numbers in China. I’d love to live in a country like that.

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They do it for free! They don’t even get paid to spout US State Department propaganda lmao.

At least we get Xi-bucks.

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Say goodbye to tourist dollars from Asia.

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Hawaii is a colonial project and isn’t respected by the federal court circuits in the same manner that continental states are. It’s closer to Guam and Puerto Rico than other states in that it carries disproportionate financial and military burdens, including the effects from the Jones act for example.

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Prices in US territories such as Guam, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico are sky-high due to the Jones Act to protect American industries at the expense of colonized people. It’s more about the where the ship was built and who operates them than the workers themselves.

Yes, I am a big fan of NAFTA as well. The only parts I dislike are the parts that allow free movement of capital, disallow free movement of people, and protection of IP.

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Your bad guy, good guy view of the world is myopic.

American labor vs International labor is a false dialectic that is used to pit working class against each other by the capital. You do realize that right? How is the Jones Act about the workers as you state when it doesn’t stipulate better working conditions, better pay, or ownership in the business itself? I don’t think you’re seriously arguing that the main reason for the price gouging that is happening in Hawaii is due to higher pay for American crew members, so I’ll ignore that.

In general, Marxists are internationalists and we don’t care about protecting American workers over other workers. I would be a syndicalist if I argued for the supremacy of the union.

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So you are deliberately ignoring your previous point about how the main business cost and therefore the reason for the high prices in Hawaii is due to higher wages for American sailors. It’s curious how you weren’t actually arguing in good faith then.

You do realize that America as a country can simply change its regulation to stipulate equal pay and treatment for foreign crew members who dock in American ports or are employed by American companies, right? You are arguing that Americans and American companies are allowed to treat foreign workers under horrible conditions, so it is labor solidarity to employ only American workers. Do you see how deranged that sounds when we get down to the meat of it?

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Ahhh here comes the bot accusation for you liberals as always. You still haven’t shown how the Jones Act actually help workers, and are arguing for the sake of arguing if you’re committed to your bit of saying that the higher prices in Hawaii are due to labor costs.

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You are arguing that protectionism is pro-labor? I don’t think you exactly understand what marxist ideology entails. Again, you are dodging the question on whether you truly believe that labor cost is the reason for high prices in Hawaii or if you were arguing just for the sake of arguing.

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I know right? It’s amazing what proper governmental response and civic mindedness of the populace can do.

See also: Vietnam, Korea, New Zealand

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Almost. Cuba is better but China’s close behind.

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