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01 Jan 2024, 9:50 pm

RedDeathFlower13 wrote:
True... but I guess politics has always been like that. In the end politics isnt so much about doing the moral thing as it is keeping your own country well fed and safe by any means necessary.


Often, but not always. Realpolitik isn't the only way to conduct politics, but it's often an influence.


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03 Jan 2024, 8:37 am

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It's funny to look back and think that in spite of the aftermath of World War 2 how it was at the height of the Jim Crow era our leaders seemed to have handled rebuilding countries like Japan and West Germany pretty decently plus we fixed a lot of problems in our own country brought on by the Great Depression.

But now it feels like it was just a fluke in history considering how bad the US has continued to sink since then.


I'm not sure it was a fluke, but it was a rare example of understanding the stakes and being willing to do what it took to achieve what they believed was needed to be done.


I wish we had more leaders like that today, instead of these self-serving kakistocrats.


But of course it was self-serving. The Cold War began the moment World War 2 ended. America wanted to stop the spread of communism. They new poverty is the breeding ground of communism so they didn't want defeated West Germany and Japan to continue living in poverty.

If it weren't for the Russians America would have left West Germany and Japan in rubble and hung the emperor for war crimes.


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03 Jan 2024, 12:12 pm

I see them regularly. In my country, even if the majority of the population is Muslim, there are so many people against it. Which is so weird to me.



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03 Jan 2024, 3:51 pm

Yes.
Regularly for most of my life.

From where I came from, there are Muslims.
Lots of them in my hometown.


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05 Jan 2024, 1:48 pm

They're getting strict in Afghanistan

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan- ... ubscribers


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