Heading off predictable counterpoints is often a good rhetorical strategy, especially when those counterpoints are so ubiquitous.

Do you think everyone in China works for the government?

And getting the same answer sounds more like a language issue or brush off than anything significant.

You don’t get to keep your weapons when you surrender. It’s just not an accurate summation of the situation. The big difference between surrendering to an opponent vs. agreeing to a ceasefire is that with a ceasefire you can re-start fighting at some point.

Hezbollah surrendering without a ceasefire in Gaza

I don’t think they surrendered to anyone – they just negotiated a ceasefire between them and Israel. Bad, but they’re not off the board like Syria.

Assad won’t really be missed for anything but his compliance in transporting weapons to Lebanon.

Who knows what information Hezbollah had about the impending collapse of Syria that we didn’t have? Who knows how that impacted their ceasefire decision?

things that fall off the police radar or weren’t getting any attention

Think of all the murders that happen in large American cities that don’t get anywhere near the police attention as this one.

The worst would be getting a bunch more people killed and then still losing

As a result of Yoon’s enhanced role in U.S. military strategy in Asia, the disgraced president has been the darling of the think tanks and Korea “experts” in the U.S. capital. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has even suggested that Yoon should get a Nobel Peace Prize for putting aside Korean differences with Japan to make the trilateral alliance work.

Is there even one foreign leader the U.S. likes who is actually decent?

Yet even as the United States backs Yoon’s stance on North Korea, the enhanced ties between the Pentagon and the South Korean Army, coupled with memories of what happened in Gwangju 44 years ago, is an explosive combination. Many Koreans remember that after Chun’s coup and the slaughter in Gwangju, President Jimmy Carter directed the Pentagon to help the Korean martial law command crush the uprising by sending an aircraft carrier and advanced reconnaissance aircraft to monitor the actions of the Korean troops dispatched to the city from the Combined Forces Command. After assisting Chun to reassert military control over the country, South Korea suffered seven more years of authoritarian rule.

Even in the most generous possible reading, the South Korean government has been a straight-up U.S. puppet for much of its history.

Lmao that’s not an error, much less one that means anything.

South Korean lawmakers – who had scrambled earlier in the night to block the martial law order with a parliamentary vote

Lawmakers worked swiftly to block the martial law decree

The leader of the opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, said the emergency martial law declaration was “unconstitutional"

“Overruled” is a fair characterization. You just don’t like the article.

The man, who admits to belonging to the Wagner Group, tells his interrogator that he and his men drove from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) to Sudan in order to “overthrow the local government”. The video cannot be independently verified by Middle East Eye.

“Yes, officer, I belong to the crips and drove here to do some gang-related murders.”

Color me skeptical

So corruption isn’t possible at all? If my town’s mayor gives millions in no-bid contracts to his cousin, that’s actually the representative of the people doing what the people want?

Sycophant.

You deliberately avoid understanding me or my position

lol

He still can, he’s not out of office for another six weeks!

Bonus question: if Biden actually cared about a potential mass deportation under Trump, how many millions of immigrants could he pardon of crossing the border unlawfully? It’s a federal crime, after all.

You talk to your wife like that?

I would rather not start a nuclear war

What’s stopping you from going to Ukraine and fighting?

Everyone talks big about war, they just want someone else to fight it

The primary objective of the Kursk gambit had to have been to fundamentally alter the course of the war – either by drawing NATO countries more directly in, or by tanking Russian public opinion, or by credibly threatening Moscow. It failed; it’s a bump in the road, not a course change.

And what evidence do you have that North Korean troops are in Ukraine? Keep in mind the U.S. has spy satellites that can read a license plate, so I’m looking for something solid, not merely a comment from a Ukranian official.

Out of the 52% who favor negotiations, 52% said Ukraine should be open to territorial concessions

So the number of Ukrainians who favor realistic negotiations is about 26%.

Paying reparations for dropping bombs is not the same as dropping bombs

So the answer to the first question is “no.”

“We had to starve the women in order to save them.”

1. Do you care about people living in destitution or not? If you do, why punish them for their government?
2. The puppet government the U.S. propped up had no internal legitimacy, as evidenced by it disintegrating before the U.S. had even fully left the country. You shouldn’t skate on terrorizing a country for 20 years because your agreement to help recovery was made with the sham government you assembled, that no one in the country actually wanted.