• ragepaw@lemmy.ca
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        9 hours ago

        There can be peaceful annexation. East Germany, Newfoundland, Hawaii (debatable), Hong Kong, Alaska and more…

        In those cases, both sides (mostly) agreed to the annexation. None were conquered (again, Hawaii is debatable).

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      23 hours ago

      Exactly. He calls himself a king. He couldn’t beat a child in a game of chess, but like Napoleon he will only taste dust and blood in the end.

      They have forgotten as close as they are to us, we are to them.

      Washington’s ego has been so inflated by her victories in the Middle East she is just as ignorant and stupid as the Russian leadership was to belive they could simply annex a massive country with minimal force.

      America is creating a nightmare of her own making on both her borders. Only a fool would simultaneously open two fronts at once, alas…

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        10 hours ago

        Victories in the Middle East

        I’m honestly not sure what this refers to in recent memory unless you’re talking about the initial battlefield victories, executing Hussein, killing Bin Laden, or dropping MOAB to make ourselves feel better. We fled Afghanistan with our tails between our leg, left a power vacuum in our wake and the people to be ruled by their theocrats. It was godawful and we lost stupendously more than we gained at least in the public sector. Nice agitprop though I guess.