Immune even to international law https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hague_Invasion_Act

When will you savages learn that non-Americans are not people.

You handle my ass pennies.

Maybe because the only co-worker food theft stories that get upvoted and therefore seen are the dramatic ones about passive-aggressively making gross food for the food thief. And who knows how many of them are true stories and how many are creative writing projects for internet points.

Voters didn’t stay home because of Trump’s lies, they stayed home because of the Democrats’ lies.

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The situation seems to be:

• I have no reason to believe that India would.
• You see no reason why India wouldn’t.
• I have no idea how you came to believe that India would.

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India isn’t blockading Pakistan today, so why should I think it will tomorrow? Seizing ships docked at Indian ports is a far cry from a naval blockade.

This is one of Punxsutawney Phil’s lesser-known responsibilities.

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Reason: Tanky spewing tankie garbage.

Either reality has a well-known tankie bias or Stoltenberg is a Putin puppet.

• US DoD, 2018: U.S. Troops Training Ukrainian Soldiers, Mattis Says
• BBC, 2023: Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground

It’s because it’s simply a good idea to diversify your reserve currency, especially if your currency is unstable.

SWIFT already handles a diversity of currencies including Renminbi, so that’s not what CIPS is about. Everyone knows what it’s about: an alternative to the imperial core’s transaction system.

The BANCOR idea is just wishful thinking, no one is migrating back to some kind of gold standard anytime soon.

Implying that BANCOR is anything like a gold standard only shows that you don’t have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of BANCOR.

One reason is that the talk of threats to democracy felt completely irrelevant to most people’s number-one concern going into the election: the economy, specifically the skyrocketing cost of living these past few years: groceries, housing, consumer goods, and more.

Oh they talked about the economy alright: they gaslit us about it for the last year, and the voters knew it, which is why they didn’t Pokémon go to the polls.

You’ve only proven that nobody has strong principles at all, here.

By saying “only,” you’re implying that these facts don’t matter, when they clearly do matter. This is the real, material world, not the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Facts on the ground don’t care about your principals.

I went over this last month https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024/14466154

Sure, but that vote hasn’t actually done anything, and countries continue to trade with Russia. And the Global South countries haven’t curtailed their relations with Russia one whit. In fact some are building even deeper ties with Russia. They’re building an alternative system to SWIFT, they’re trading in each others’ currencies to avoid the dollar, and they’re making plans for some kind of BANCOR-like currency. The BRICS summit is happening right now, hosted by Russia.

Not only that, but Global North countries are skirting their own sanctions to trade with Russia on the sly.

I know what the map looks like, and my point still stands: Is India going to break international law to blockade Bangladesh?

Ukraine has no ability to produce long range missiles whatsoever. These are all American missiles operated by American personnel. The Ukrainians can’t even launch them, never mind build them. And since it takes American personnel to launch them, it would mean the US is literally directly attacking Russia, at which point this in no way can be considered a “proxy” or “cold” war anymore, but a hot war between the two largest nuclear powers.

Lived experience vs Democratic Bidenomics gaslighting: that’s why the voter base stayed home and ya lost to a clown.

Only if India mounts a naval blockade, which would be rather drastic.

The 182-metre (597-foot) long container ship – the Panama-flagged Yuan Xiang Fa Zhan – had sailed from Pakistan’s Karachi to Bangladesh’s Chittagong.

We only sing about it.

It’s a city, it’s a really big rock, it’s a maritime port, it’s the only wild monkey population in Europe, it’s a 2½ mi² British Overseas Territory whose status is perennially contested by Spain.