I don’t think any President actually declared a cold war, which is different then the war on drugs and the war on terror. The cold war did however have a great effect on the USA economy, the military industrial complex, and also prompted the second red scare. Which led to many people losing their rights, citizenship and livelihood.

We have totally been involved in proxy wars since ww2 and some have argued we are in 2 now both in Ukraine and in Gaza.

I don’t know where exactly the line is drawn, or how exactly war is defined. And I do believe that words have meanings. Which is why when a sitting president declares a war on drugs there are consequences and the USA can now execute people on an alleged “drug boat” without much resistance.

I believe it’s our job to recognize and call out things like this, among other things.

• Are you saying that Ukraine’s allies, specifically the USA are not financially supporting the Ukraine war? Remember we are talking about how the cost of war effects the economy.
• it sounds like you’re dismissing the war in Gaza because of how you are deciding to define the word war. Do you really think that daily airstrikes, ground invasion,a siege, and an officially recognized genocide doesn’t qualify as a war simply because it hasn’t been declared?

I couldn’t disagree more on the rest of your points. You seem so focused on semantics that you can’t see the obvious. Also, if we are going to base everything on semantics, if the commander in chief declares something a war, then it is one.

US tax dollars are being used for these activities, no matter if you support them or not. And in some cases (more specifically the domestic ones) they are a net negative on GDP.

Foreign wars that US tax dollars pay for:

• The Russian invasion of Ukraine (I support Ukraine)
• The Israeli genocide in Gaza (genocide is a war crime)

Demostic wars that US tax dollars pay for:

• The war on drugs
• The war on terror
• The war on woke

Note: these are not just semantics. The word “war” was chosen by leaders to facilitate policy changes like increased militarization of police, creation of entire departments, and loss of US citizen freedoms.

Personally, I think the word war is synonymous with the military industrial complex. It is a self propecuating cycle of harm.

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You’re a stupid fucking take.

Just the way that this would make sense to me.

America’s economy is creaking — and the Whitehouse wants Americans to pay more for the war

You could replace Russia with USA and Kremlin with Whitehouse and it would still make sense.

The CCP actually executes corrupt politicians quite often. It’s one of the few things I can agree with them on. The issue is, if they can be trusted to grant fair trials. And then you have to ask how much can you trust an authoritarian government on really anything.

I honestly doubt that russia would be trusted to supply anything for the chinese military outside of raw materials.

Also, whats a high altitude parachute? is it just one that deploys higher up? Wouldint that make the troops and stuff easier to hit?

On top of that, if russia had all this…why couldnt they take Kyiv?

After watching Is Russia Already at War With NATO? I think it is more likely that trump is trying to goad NATO into responding more seriously to russia, and then once they do trump can condem the action and support russia against NATO.

Now russia can pull out of Ukraine without admitting defeat

https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/

I haven’t tested this, but Jellyfin does this with videos and ebooks so I’d be surprised if it didn’t also work this way for music.

Jellyfin is FOSS and entirely self hosted.

You don’t

Unfortunately, the issue is with the kernel-level EA Javelin anticheat.

Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ 1 + 2 works well on Linux too

True

Hope everyone enjoys their worthless plastic

Piracy is not theft

Use FOSS programs instead of Adobe