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That reads like a description of the chatgpt start page. Just a prompt to start a conversation with a (mostly) helpful tool. But the moment they obtain absolute market dominance…

The northern elite also didn’t want to win at the start of the war: the union as it was, constitution as it is (with slavery that is). For the northern elite the south was a source of cheap cotton and an export market for finished goods, winning decisively would break that balance.

The end of slavery was truly a bottoms up movement, that forced the contradiction to be so great that it could not exist in one country.

John Dolan (aka the war nerd) has a great series on this subject on his podcast: Radio War Nerd.

Der Führer schützt das Recht.

It’s a distasteful comparison, but it’s literally the logic here: „We are international law, and international law is us. If we must break international law to protect our interests, then we are protecting international law itself.“

I thought you were done.

It is, please reread the thread if you’re not convinced.

The edits are small wording changes made within minutes of posting them (before you responded to them).

Great job not sounding like a sore loser. 👌

Edit: the original posts with my point aren’t even edited.

Good point pal.

That is the detail that you got stuck on. The question was: is the US culpable in the Palestinian genocide, or is Israel just a third country?

Watch the news and it should be obvious what the answer is.

Would the Palestinian genocide be happening without US support?

What little green men do you think man the aircraft carriers, shoot down the missiles, or build the pier that was then used to kill civilians?

The US army is actively involved on every front of this war/genocide. Not to speak of the intelligence that they are probably providing.

And yes if you micro optimize the goal posts long enough there is bound to be a difference between Russian involvement in Ukraine before 2022 and Israel. But that is besides the point, the question is: would the Palestinian genocide be happening without direct US support? And the answer is irrefutably no.

Saying Israel is not the US is like saying the Ukrainian separatists between 2014 and 2022 where not Russia. Israel gets its weapons, money and international support directly from the US. Without the US Israel would not exist in its current state, and definitely would not be doing what it’s doing right now in Gaza. The US fought the Houthis to defend Israel, and without the US many many more Iranian rockets would have hit. And even if all of this was not the case and Israel was just a normal ally, the difference in response to Russias invasion of Ukraine vs Israels genocide against Palestinians still proves the point.

I would prefer to be under US hegemony than under Russian or Chinese hegemony (for the time being) but mostly because the US is richer.

But morally speaking the only difference is scale:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231108-gaza-deaths-compared-to-ukraine/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War