Backhanded compliment. I’ll take it, even if your comment is not nearly as generous as hoped. I won’t opine on the quality of your posts, as I don’t personalize them and read each persons post as a stand alone thought.
I take it you don’t purchase anything imported from Communist countries? Are you happy with that? Or, are you the 0.00001% of people in the west who are self sustaining? How about supporting a team owned by a sovereign wealth fund of middle Eastern country? How far are you going to try to go to make a tortured, irrelevant, point?
I make no bones about the fact that it is nation states that determine economic models and wage wars, not individuals who may or may not love their country! Not sure what that has to do with the price of butter, but I’ll soldier on with your post…
HAHAHAHA!
Does targeting western/Christian/British ships make it OK? Is morality and the rule of law a popularity contest? Why does it matter who is outraged or not, “backing the attack” or not?
My country? My doctrine? America has helped be the security blanket for most of Europe allowing them the luxury of not having to protect their own, or our collective, best interests.
You sound like Xi & Putin’s wet dream! Maybe you would prefer to live in Russia or China, and love doing it, no doubt?!
Do you mean other than Honolulu or the Pacific Islands?
I agree that modern technology has reduced 22 miles to seconds, but for millennia it was an insurmountable hurdle to most. That same technology has also reduced those oceans in the same manner. In fact, Russia is far closer to the U.S. than the UK, as is China!
At least you have your answer for the next Miss World contest you enter! With eons of religious war ever present, it’s hard to envisage the entire world at peace, but many people would suggest that the relative peace being kept in a M.A.D. nuclear world for the last 3/4 century has been a good thing for the world. It has certainly given us room for the generation of snowflakes we are currently having to endure!
It is, indeed, a nightmare, so who to blame? Depends on where you sit, right?
Sounds like we need your diplomatic skills in the 40s to solve these intractable problems in the “right way!”
Certainly lots of shades of grey, but that has nothing to do with the rough with the smooth, unless you think life is, was, and always will be relatively smooth?! The rough (war) is what usually leads to the smooth (peace), but if you know of another way, the entire world is all ears. For now, though, I’ll recommend the 120 grit at the local hardware store if they need to solve any problems short of all out war to smooth over the rough spots.
