New Year’s resolution

New Year’s resolution

Pretty much yea

One of the few responsibilities assigned by the Constitution to the federal government in relation to States is that the national federal government must protect the integrity of the state. If as the north maintained during the Civil War, the states in rebellion were still part of the United States, Lynn Lincoln had a responsibility to keep West Virginia as part of Virginia. This is just another example of how the war between the states or Civil War if you want to call it that, was not about slavery and was really about having northeastern economic interests control the Southern States.

An excerpt from the Hudson Institute's article: "100 Years of Communism - and 100 Million Dead": "In total, no fewer than 20 million Soviet citizens were put to death by the regime or died as a direct result of its repressive policies. This does not include the millions who died in the wars, epidemics and famines that were predictable consequences of Bolshevik policies, if not directly caused by them. The victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and special settlements. To this list should be added nearly a million Gulag prisoners released during World War II into Red Army penal battalions, where they faced almost certain death; the partisans and civilians killed in the postwar revolts against Soviet rule in Ukraine and the Baltics; and dying Gulag inmates freed so that their deaths would not count in official statistics. If we add to this list the deaths caused by communist regimes that the Soviet Union created and supported-including those in Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia-the total number of victims is closer to 100 million. That makes communism the greatest catastrophe in human history" (Food for thought)

@ that’s sad indeed

Finnish lyrics for the national anthem of the USSR: "Oi suuri ja mahtava Neuvostoliitto, pienien kansojen hautausmaa" English: "Oh great almighty Soviet Union, Graveyard of all minor nationalities"

99% were Nazi and their collaborators. Are you sure the USSR is the worst thing that happened, and not the British empire

Where did you get that number from? The worst estimates for the red terror is 600k. Meanwhile, may I present to you the results of other events: - the Irish potato famine (1M) - the African slave trade (4M) - privatised healthcare in the US (44k a year) - leaded petrol (1.2M a year and 824M IQ points) - tabaco (8M yearly) - the Holocaust (11M) - American Indians (4M / 96%)

@07_sev52 ​ check out how many died because of lenin's red purge or stalin's paranoia. I am not even counting the millions who died in the ww2. My great granfather was taken away and never seen or heard of again. Most likely died in siberia or was shot dead by smersh. Also famine in ukraine/moldova so your numbers are probably taken from a russia today propaganda documentary.

Millions die off capitalism every year because off food shortages and wars

Eastern Imperialism!

Let's not pretend they were any better than us. If anything, I'd argue they were worse

@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan well when the east colonise Africa that might've been a decent got you moment

@@michaeljebbett160 nothing is worse then western imperialism pal, the west is coalition of barbarians

You mean the imperialist ruzzia?

So what you’re saying is the Palestinians/Muslims (seeing as you’re using them interchangeably) deserved to have their stolen? Why don’t Palestinians have the right to return? Of course there are details left out, it’s such a vast history condensed into a short space of time. There’s always more detail that can be included.

@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan​​⁠ ​​⁠The Peel commission offered them like 80% of the land, and they rejected it. They’ve rejected every independently brokered 2 state solution. They stated the infamous 3 no’s in which they said they would never accept a Jewish state in that region no matter what. The 1947 split did give Israel a little more than half BUT the south east large region was just useless desert, Negev Desert, that was undesirable land, and Israel built it up from sand. In 1948 700k were displaced, some by choice which I’ll get to. In like 1947 the UN split British controlled India into India and Pakistan where 12-20 Million were displaced. 12-20 Million lost their land / homes there. Within 2 years they accepted it and moved on. You ask if they deserved to have their land “stolen”. 1. It wasn’t their land, Britain controlled the land. (It’s like they were renters and the British were the landlord). Did 12-20 Million deserve to have their land stolen in India? 2. Not all were forced out in 1948 as many fled bc the then Palestinian leaders said they were going to attack day 1 to eliminate Israel and therefore they left expecting to return after they won. (Many stayed and became part of Israel and live freely in peace. Why aren’t they complaining of lost lands?) 3. Almost all of the land they have lost since 1948 was because they started wars, or attacked first. If you start a war and lose and lose land it’s your own fault and yes you deserve to lose the land. Land lost in a war you start is not land stolen. And if you attack and lose and Israel then occupies areas of your land to create a buffer or just take over, it’s your own fault, and not land stolen but land lost. If Israel seizes land for no reason at all, then yes it’s stolen land. The West Bank is a critical strategic area for Israel to protect itself. Most of it is a mountainside that overlooks the coastal plains where like 70% of Israel’s population exists. Having the high ground overlooking these plains is critical for defense. If violence and terrorist attacks weren’t originating there, and there was peace, Israel would have never felt obligated to gain control of that area. Putting settlements there is the best way for them to protect themselves from major threats originating from there. Again, attacks happen against Israelis, Israel seizes land to defend itself. The fact that no Muslim countries want to help the Palestinians says a lot. The hatred and radicalism is so deep in their culture. The fact the PM of Egypt (Google it) said he’d let Millions of Palestinians die before he lets them into his country says a lot right there.

To be fare the DRA was practically begging the Soviet Union to invade and help prop up their fledgling regime cuz they were losing ground in the gorilla war the Mujahideen was waging against them.