falcunculus

A far-right candidate (Nicolas Dupont-Aignan) proposed imprisoning French mujahideen in the Kerguelen Islands in 2016.

I choose to believe this is brilliant trolling

In 1945 the British general staff assessed the possibility of war against the USSR for Poland and concluded it wasn't feasible. It was codenamed Operation Unthinkable.

How can the West do that without interfering in these countries' internal matters?

it's France of 1794. A bloodbath that ended, as it always has in history, with a conservative backlash and a dictatorship.

It didn't "end" with a dictatorship. Social change continued for a century, in which the people gained more and more power to the detriment of autocrats, until the establishment of today's strong liberal democracy. The millennia-old institutions that opposed this change couldn't be replaced in a day.

Reading this feels like I'm at the bar. Kinda agree with the sentiment though.

🍻 Cheers to you

My perspective is probably biased, but this lack of stability also means a chance for a modern legal and political framework, without the centuries of cruft and corruption and deadlock that feature in the American system.

There's also a greater willingness to look into the fundamentals of the system and make changes if necessary, since it's just seen as having been made by flawed human beings rather than the wise and enlightened "Founding Fathers".

Biden won the highest turnout election in more than a century, and Al Gore's win was stolen by the Bush clique. This is gross reframing or even reimagining of events to suit your narrative.

Mainstream western political theories holds the power of nations arises from their economy. What threat would Putin be were Russia incapable of producing weapons and supplying soldiers?

Sanctions therefore seek to diminish the power of Russia, counting on its economy being sufficiently interconnected with and dependant on that of the West.

In this context, sanctions hurting the common people is ultimately the point, because they're literally trying to make Russia poorer, and therefore the poorest will be hurt most. Sanctions targeting the ruling class (such as seizure of assets like yachts) are at best symbolic.

If you're unhappy why stay? Personally I'm happy with the Lemmyverse as it stands now — certainly happier than in the corporate lowest-common-denominator that is now Reddit.

I disagree, the poor would be worse off without public transit since else it'd be much harder for them to move around. In fact many if not most public transit systems are subsidized and operate at a loss.

The richer don't use it and so care little, beyond the macro level that it benefits businesses and such.

If it's a honor system that you don't obey, are we to conclude you are without honor? ^^