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Why don't you have Daddy Murdoch ask Putin to let him go? You Newscorp degenerates are practically an official propaganda arm of the Kremlin as it is, I'm sure russia would let them go after they're reminded this is a case of friendly fire.

Enjoy this downvote. Comments that only sow doubts are worthless.

>Can’t say that I know much about it
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>but the concept seems unworkable.

Then phrase it as a question. "How could this work?" for example. What you're doing is intentionally undermining it and sowing doubt.

You must be fun at parties

Why? What’s your solution?

Why? It’s definitely a harbinger of bad times on the horizon, but it’s always been in the interest of “enemy” factions/nations to maintain a basic, failsafe line of communication.

Is this the new trend?

Might be time for the Olympics to go on hiatus for a couple decades.

Meh, the balloon stuff was pretty low-grade, silly stuff, with a lot of posturing on both sides, I’m not too worried about China not picking up on that stuff.

They did pick up Milley’s calls when trump was engaging in some serious sabre rattling, so still consider that red line to be up and running if/when actually necessary. Not clear if this will hold up long term, but all the incentives favour maintaining this kind of fail safe line of communication.

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Put him back in a bunker!!

After everything Orban did…..no respect!

This is Mike Hunt

You do realize that it's not the kids who are implementing these projects right? This smells of a boomer complaining to kids about the participation trophies that the boomer invented and gave out because they were too weak to have the emotional talk with their kids about winners and losers.

What is ZZ nation neutral in??

Gee, why not just get rid of all courts and rule by decree, maybe the rulers can go back to wearing purple robes, /S/

Korea had been making some inroads on that front, and there has been some level of recognition and acceptance of blame by Japan for the despicable treatment of “comfort women”.

Not enough to satisfy/assuage most Koreans (which is totally understandable), but the two countries just had a big “let bygones be bygones” meeting a few weeks ago that also helps turn a few more pages.

At the end of the day, they weren't beaten in a way that beat the nationalism out of them. Germany had Soviet and Allied Troops marching through their towns, their cities sieged, their industry completely toppled. It was clear they were losing. To many in Japan, the lack of an invasion meant it felt like they could still fight. Yes, their cities were bombed but they fought for over a year while that was the case. So when one day they were just told the war was over and that they had lost, it came as a shock. Many didn't hear about the nukes until weeks or months after the war had ended. All they had to blame was weak politicians and weak generals, not the fact that they, as a nation, had lost.

Fun fact: Twin Peaks actually was super popular in Japan, so that conversation could almost actually happen!

These are pretty bad ideas.

I'm just saying people were so quick to jump on the Kosovo band wagon and support the bombing of Serbia at the time. It makes you wonder what the truth really is in these situations.

Electric cars will never replace gasoline engines until they make batteries that can go as far as well as charge as fast as putting fuel in a gasoline engine.

Very. (Also: Nanjing is just shorthand for a couple of decades of brutality that preceded it and centuries of decidedly tense relations before then).

Life isn't fair, true, although I believe it's our job to make it fair. But either way I'd rather have them find out later than leave adolescence with a trauma.

They're ALREADY at war... they have been for almost the entirety of Israel's existence