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1 day agoDo not drink and derive!
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4·2 days agoThe answer is actually “a mix of all three,” and it really depends on which conflict you’re looking at.
For Afghanistan, it was exactly the first one: the only time Article 5, the “attack on one is an attack on all” clause, has ever been invoked. That happened after 9/11 and led directly to the NATO-led mission there.
Yugoslavia in 1999 was a different beast entirely; that was NATO waging an air campaign without a UN Security Council mandate, operating far outside its traditional defensive boundaries to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
When you look at Iraq in 2003, NATO as an organization sat it out, but the war was obviously started by key NATO members like the US and UK, and the alliance itself only stepped in later to help train Iraqi security forces.
Finally, the 2011 Libya intervention was more of a formal NATO operation, but it fits the mold of an unofficial proxy war of sorts, as the alliance used a UN mandate to protect civilians as the basis for a bombing campaign that ultimately helped rebels overthrow Gaddafi
About 350 thousand according to this source whe you can find a list and a very conservative death count: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202307/10/WS64ab6988a310bf8a75d6e3a2.html
The most deadly NATO intervention is the Iraq war, in October 2006 the Lancet estimated the following:
Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the final analysis; data from 1849 households that contained 12 801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·3–7·1), compared with 13·3 per 1000 people per year (10·9–16·1) in the 40 months post-invasion. We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654 965 (392 979–942 636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601 027 (426 369–793 663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire
https://web.archive.org/web/20150907130701/http://brusselstribunal.org/pdf/lancet111006.pdf
That em dash you used is very suspect… 😆
It has been established that LLMs (aka “AI models”) have been trained using copyrighted data without the consent of copyright holders.
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5·3 days agoThe United States of America has already won the war. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline lies idle, and EU countries have imposed extensive sanctions on Russia.
What American strategists feared was a Russia–Germany tandem leveraging Russian energy and German technology.
The source
I am not the user you where interacting with, but these ideas can be found in Carl Schmitt in his work The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum.
This is because The Nomos of the Earth provides his most comprehensive exploration of how sovereign authority and geographic space are legally and historically intertwined. The previous comments are about authority’s spatial claim, and this book is precisely where Schmitt develops that idea at length.
An important fact to know about Carl Schmitt follows:
In 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party and used his legal and political theories to provide ideological justification for the regime. He held various positions on Nazi councils, including the Prussian State Council and the Academy for German Law, and served as president of the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt
A counterpoint
Perhaps the most pointed philosophical counterpoint to the text’s use of “roots” comes from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, which was later applied to national identity by the philosopher Édouard Glissant. His seminal work Poetics of Relation has been used by scholars across the world to understand the rapid transformation of a multicultural world.
They critique the root as a metaphor for a singular, vertical, and exclusionary origin. Glissant argues that nations shouldn’t speak of having “roots,” as this implies one unique ancestral heritage.
Instead, he champions the image of the rhizome (a plant with a network of interconnected, horizontal roots) because it better captures a multicultural reality where identity is not fixed but is a dynamic, relational, and non-hierarchical network.
Where the text’s concept of “roots” traces a lineage back to a point of origin, the rhizome celebrates the connections made in the present.
Sometimes, events like this precede real revolutions by 20 or 25 years, but the outcome is not certain. In some cases, counterrevolutionary forces establish a fascist regime and simply kill all leftists.
Thank you, I edited both the title and the description.
I have hundreds of bookmarks, that I review constantly, and dozens of RSS feeds of sites I read news from. Sometimes I send myself messages on Telegrams to keep track of articles I want to read.
When you begin to study the tradition of your country, you often discover that many words, fairy tales, and dishes that you consider traditions of your own country are actually from very faraway places.
For example: the zero and chess from India; algebra and algorithms from Arabic countries; paper, silk, gunpowder, and ceramics from China; tomatoes and potatoes from America; etc.
It is useless for the worker, but it is very useful for the owner. The owner will use foreigners as scapegoats for the low salaries of the workers.
Some cases are very ironic, like the one of American veterans who fought in Vietnam coming back there to retire
https://phong-partners.com/en/american-veterans-choose-vietnam-for-retirement
You can find more information about it here: https://medium.com/@sukosuko1/our-blessed-homeland-0218f41bb51a
They could also try to become a Zen Buddhist monk, like Steve Jobs did:
https://taru-fukui-album.com/eiheiji-the-buddhist-temple-where-steve-jobs-wanted-to-become-a-monk/
Sorry, it is not my genre. I am more a Xenoblade Chronicles, Tetris, Lichess kind of person.
Today I learnt about Hanoi Hannah: https://chaohanoi.com/2020/11/15/hanoi-hannah-vietnam-radio-broadcaster/
The great Spike Lee did a movie featuring her as a character: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3888299545/?playlistId=tt9777644
261·8 days agoI lived in Soviet Union. Kyrgyz Socialist Soviet Republic to be precise. And you?
Actually they do. It is called an overproduction crisis. Under capitalism it can be solved only through wars.