@matthew_petti Also, just throwing it out there, but how is occupying the islands going to keep the sea way open? They can shoot missiles and drones from 30 miles inland.
@osintpeace@ettingermentum 1) The Eastern Roman empire did not control Rome, even in a narrow legal sense, for like 3 times longer than the existence of the USA
2) neither would most people in the Eastern Roman Empire
3) Again, neither did the Eastern Roman Empire.
*Adam Curtis Voiceover*
In 1994, a group of men made a decision. They believed that if they could just make people *feel* that things were a little bit better, no one would notice that nothing had changed.
They called it modernisation.
Thirty years later, a lawyer from Holborn looked at the wreckage of that project and decided to try it again.
But it was a fantasy.
And when the world began to fall apart, it was revealed that that once again, nothing has really changed, and the lawyer from Holborn also believed in nothing.
@merkblack00702@ettingermentum It's bad enough seeing mainstream dems fall for this kind of West Wing nonesense without having the anti-war movement do it to.
@jinggu9999@washingtonpost Because you don't want the collapse of your alliance system leading eventually to America's global isolation and reduction as a major power.
@ettingermentum the problem with Kamela is she's yet another centrist woman candidate who rightists don't want cause they're misogynists and progressives don't want cause she's a cop.