One does disservice to self when believing anything that comes out of 404

 

Actually the are second only to those who "By way of deception wage war". It amazes me every time I read that the Israel actually made an honest statement.

Bandera never claimed he was a Nazi. The "SS" symbol is but one of many "national" groups, including those from Belgium, the Netherlands, and France.

Neither is Syrup of Ipecac.

There's no such thing as a non-racist society.

It’s more likely that the lockdowns forced people to postpone or forego care
 

I do agree that casualties from postponement of care needs to be looked into and properly controlled for.

Eternal Glory to the Red Army!

Probably was trying to appease the west by not prosecuting the nazis. But as we know, these things don’t work. He should have thought about what happened to Qadafi after he tried to appease the west.
 

I was not aware of that, but I can imagine that it is not anywhere near the threat some people make it out to be.

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There was this joke in the USSR during 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

At the front both sides are shooting. Then, all of a sudden, shooting from the Arab trenches stops. Israeli soldier shouts: “hey, Mustapha, why did you stop shooting?” “I ran out of ammo”. “I can sell you some”.

I would certainly support an accomodation with Turkey where they get Jerusalem and we get Tsargrad.

Replies: @Barr, @Blade

Turkey already has almost a moral or populist control in East Jerusalem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUUhkOuu8w

If Turkey would invade it - they would probably civilize the area, or at worst there is no so much for them to decivilize.

Erdogan was intentionally mistranslated. It was a figurative expression. Like a Christian saying Jerusalem is the capital of Christianity or an Indonesian Muslim saying Meccah is our city. It is his opinion and valid as far as Islam is concerned, educated Turks don't care for cities in the deserts and some of the uneducated think they care because they have never been to one, not realizing Jerusalem, Meccah or Damascus wouldn't even compare to many second tier Turkish cities. Aside from that recently French state TV was caught translating his speech completely wrong. Ever since NATO coup failed he is being treated as devil incarnate by the independent and free Western media. While I don't like him because of his Islamism, I don't see journalist butchers or terrorist supporters from Gulf or KSA getting much criticism. Wonder why?

When Armenia engages them with SAMs, it means that the radar "lights up" and it would be possible for Azerbaijan if it is monitoring, to know the location of Armenian SAMs are. The best defense for SAMs is for the enemy not to know their location.

Nonsense. You know zero history and you just proved it. If Turks were so atrocious how come they were a minority by the collapse of the empire? In fact, Turks were too tolerant to the point of fault. If Turks were like most other nations, there would be zero Christians left in most of East and Central Europe.

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But Russians like eating kebab.......................... :( And the Sultan is willing to give them 50% discounts in bulk on Angus beef kebabs.

Aliyev is not very smart, because he is the fall guy in this war. Although Azerbaijan is roughly equivalent to North Korea in terms of press freedom and repression of dissent, surely the death of thousands of soldiers and billions in military equipment will have consequences internally.
 

This is the problem with small nation nationalists. They think countries like Russia, Turkey, Germany etc. pay much attention to them and that they will get into conflict for their sake. It is 2020, land isn't as valuable as it was 300 years ago. Russia isn't going to fight for Armenia and Turkey isn't going to invade Caucasus. I will however say that it was very foolish of Iranian mullahs to side with Armenia. Once this war is over, what will they do if Turks in Iran start questioning Persian regime's behavior? After all almost half of Iran is Turkic. It seems like they want another 1000 years of Turkish rule in Iran.

Russians love shawarma.

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It's not, whether the Armenians slaughter the Azeries or vice versa is irrelevant to me, just so long as there is an ethnic bloodbath. Each added atrocity is simply another hole in the human rights mythology and the fact that the Armenian diaspora is prominent is an added benefit. I have no love for the Turks, but I don't have much sympathy for the Armenians either. Per Karlin it is likely they are going to lose, if they were going to win, I would hope they ethnically cleanse that Azeri pocket and merge NK with Armenia altogether entirely as one continuous whole. It just doesn't seem realistic at this point while the Azeri plan is much more probable.

The Armenians wanted to play both sides of Russia and the US off each other but found out that in an emergency, having one foot in each camp is unstable footing. That fault is on them and to castigate Russia for sitting it out is quite frankly insulting. Should ask fat Pompeo and Trump for aid.

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The Turks will have to pay a heavy price for that genocide...someday!

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Being some what of a history buff, I did read that the Greeks ethnically cleansed northern Greece of Turks and Greek Muslims and the sea faring Greek Muslim Merchants of Crete had to flee to Cyrenaica. Bulgarian independence was also not so nice to the Turkic Muslims around the Black Sea. Salonika was Turk and Jewish in the majority before Greek independence.

Somebody commented on Smyrna, the burning. Recall that the League of Nations handed it to the Greeks (not a majority) but the controlling commercial class after the first war and they immediately began to put down the Turkish inhabitants.

What is sad is that the Med Basin has always been cosmopolitan and a mixture of ethnicities and religions that had little problem with another until the advent of European Nation State paradigm in the 18th century which was based on ethnic or religious homogeneity and bloodletting.

Put aside what past empires they lived under, whether Roman, Byzantium, Arab or Ottoman. The Arab Muslims to the south were never keen on the Ottomans anymore than the Greeks to the north, but did not practice ethnic cleansing as far as the historical record shows.

For the most part I find the comments posted on Ron Unz to be from myopic nationalists of all persuasions. Certainly it cannot be denied that the Young Turks were under control of the Oriental Masonic Lodge in Napoli and received material and armaments from Italy to vanquish the Greco-French invasion of Anatolia in the 1920's. Yes the Turks obviously cleansed or expelled the Greco-Armenian inhabitants of Anatolia in this period, but very sadly it had worked both ways.

It is best that humanity works to end both the rise of the Neo-Ottoman Sultanate and to end the bigoted and the paradigms of ethnically pure nation states around the Mediterranean Basin and return to a state system where all ethnic and religious groups are treated equally and fairly. irrespective of land borders. Of course Israel would be the first casualty in such a national reset, and of course can always exclude itself, based on its special status as God's and the Banker's Chosenites.

The second Turkish tomatoes boycott is eminent...

That might be true or false. That’s the story the Armenian government promotes to drag Russia into their war. Might be 100% fake. I hope Russian military knows the truth.

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Well put.

Although to be fair what he seems to be discussing isn't an allegory to post war USSR but the revolutionary period and civil war, and it should be noted that those early bolsheviks were true believers. Lenin wrote prodigiously on the subject.

That being said communism has certain defining characteristics. None of which are possessed BLM antifa and crew. Americans just call them communist because they don't know what communism is and describe it as some hodgepodge of random features including some totalitarian characteristics. If they had grown up in the USSR or read Hegel, Marx and co they would know exactly what -ism BLM is and realize it doesn't start with a "c" but with and "f".

Once and for all ignorant moron, the firearm was not illegal, it was legally registered in WI, and like thousands of people in the Antioch IL Kenosha WI area Rittenhouse commuted from his home in Antioch IL to Kenosha WI daily because he works in Kenosha

America isn’t 1920-196os Soviet Union when people needed special passes to travel from one town to the next.

BTW the way, where’d you get the idea it’s illegal to cross state lines ?

Half the despicable MEN OF UNZ were defending Epstein Maxwell for violating federal law 18 USC 2421 2422 2423 2424 and 2425 by transporting prostitutes across state lines in an ongoing criminal enterprise for decades.

Now you’re making up laws that an IL resident can’t work in WI because it means crossing state lines.

...a minor crosses a state border with an illegal firearm...
 

...where being a protester is the mere provocation.
 

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Happily, there won't be a next time for at least two of them. And the guy who got his biceps blown off will probably be out of action indefinitely.

Hahahah! "Shoot me, Nigga! Shoot me, Nigga!"

He fought instead of fled. Reasoning with a mob is impossible, so of the two choices which one is right? Mob is still there.

You think without a resistance to the violence, it will fizzle out? Maybe he was dumb - one person against a mob, it is not a winnable fight, so he shouldn't have taken it on. But if the police are not defending, citizens will choose to do so themselves.

That the three citizens to 'pacify' him (the living one now saying he wished he had killed him), are all violent criminals.

Does this justify his actions? It makes his case that the mob committing arson and looting was a violent mob, if that wasn't obvious from just that law breaking.

His intention - 'to kill people', that is for a court to establish. It is much more likely his intention was to defend the town, as he said himself.

(my choice is flee btw, I am non violent, but I am willing to understand the other side)

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"Next time they may not be as generous."

I hope they wont be. There is only one way to treat armed vigilantes. As armed criminals theatening violence. Gun them down like they were rabid dogs.

Why don’t you go back where you came from? South Africa is not your home, after all.
 

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'Do they have statues of Japanese invaders in Busan, or were they toppled at some point in the past?'

I'd guess all the statues of Japanese invaders the Koreans of the day felt moved to erect are still there,

Replies: @Wielgus

Hi Дима Трамп,

I'd assume all statues erected by the Japanese during their occupation have been removed. A commenter like "Hacienda" can probably clarify this for us all.

Here's a current news item to show how extremely sensitive Koreans are about Japanese invasions of their country:

tvN's show stirs controversy for introducing symbol of Japanese samurai family

"Amazing Saturday," a show on cable channel tvN, apologized for making a minor actor wear a costume bearing the family symbol of a samurai who invaded Korea in the 1500s in its latest episode, suspending a rebroadcast.

In the episode broadcast Saturday, Kim Kang-hoon, a child actor famous for his roles in multiple dramas and movies including "Mr. Sunshine," wore a costume with the family crest of Ishida Mitsunari, a high-level Japanese official under the leadership of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
 

Linh

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