>>64219153
>there's unlikely to be many Venezuelans in the military.

The ones that are would be men whose families fled Maduro's misrule and would be even more keen on participating in his violent overthrow than native-born Americans. For them, it would not a betrayal, but a liberation.

*see Italian and German (and Japanese to a lesser extent) refugees who signed up to fight for the Allies in WWII

>>64219157

What are you even niggerbabbling about?

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>>64151745

Honestly you could tell this summit was going to go nowhere just from the fact that that they didn't bother to negotiate a ceasefire beforehand, something that even the Israelis and Hamas had to accept.

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>>64149172

Al Qaeda's propaganda chief, Abu Bakr Naji, wrote an entire book called Management of Savagery detailing the strategy behind suicide bombing and terrorism.

per the wikipedia summary because I'm not going to risk getting myself put on the No-Fly List to pull actual quotes.

>In stage one ("vexation and empowerment") the "will of the enemy" would be broken by destruction of "vital economic and strategic targets". In Muslim-majority countries these would include "oil facilities and the tourism infrastructure". A campaign of constant violent attacks (vexation operations) in Muslim states will eventually exhaust their ability and will to enforce their authority. Concentrating security forces to protect these sensitive targets will cause the state to weaken and its powers wither, leading to a breakdown of public order, since "if regular armies concentrate in one place they lose control. Conversely, if they spread out, they lose effectiveness". Salafi-jihadists will take advantage of this security vacuum, launching an all-out battle on the thinly dispersed security forces leading to the destruction of the state targeted by the jihadis. Extreme violence is emphasized.
>In stage two is the "administration of savagery" (Idarat al-Tawhush). In the wake of the breakdown in order, the law of the jungle will prevail and survivors will "accept any organization, regardless of whether it is made up of good or evil people." Jihadists can take advantage of this savagery to win popular support, or at least acquiescence, Jihadis will be the organization—enforcing sharia and providing basic services of security, food and medicine. The areas they control will serve as bases to attack other states that have not yet been overthrown, to "plunder their money, and place them in a constant state of apprehension".
>In the third and final stage, ("empowerment", Shawkat al-Tamkeen). The area or areas they administer become the nucleus of a new caliphate.

>>17927646

It's not even that Ribbentrop was unqualified, he was just flat out fucking bad at his job. A lot of businessmen were used as unofficial intermediaries by both the Axis and Allies to varying degrees of success.

>>17834752
>titanic disaster wasn't a single crisis. It was years of complacency, outdated procedures and lack of awareness/training all around, that all came together in spectacular fashion.

Exactly, it was a bunch of smaller lapses in judgement and regulation, and misreading of the results of previous accidents (such as the sinking of the RMS Republic in 1909), that coalesced at a single point in time to create one of the most spectacular tragedies of the 20th Century.

>i've also heard that proper damage and flooding control could have kept the ship the ship afloat for hours longer but idk if thats just wishful hindsight

If aggressive damage control measures had been taken in the first five minutes and been kept up, maybe it could have bought the ship a few extra hours. But realistically, that wasn't going to happen with an unexpected collision in the middle of the night when half of the crew were sound asleep and the other half were half-asleep. 1st Officer Murdoch to his credit shut the watertight doors within seconds of the collision (and likely prevented the ship from sinking within minutes), it just wasn't enough.

>>63946626
>The U.S. has a more laissez-faire approach because our version of secularism is that you can believe whatever you want and the government gets out of the way, and there's no state religion (okay the president will say "God bless America" but it's generally more of a private matter)

Were it not for the institution of Separation of Church and State, this country would have dissolved into a religious bloodbath that would put the Thirty Years War to shame centuries ago. That half-sentence in the 1st Amendment

>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

has saved us from more trouble than we can begin to imagine.

>>63863171

Please cite one passage written by Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels supporting your position.

>>63863179

Centrally planned economy is merely part of it. Communism is more than an economic system (such as capitalism), it's an ideology, a quasi-religion arguably.

>>63863190
>it's when the government hands the economy to bankers

It's literally not

>it's why Jackson killed the banks

In case you didn't notice, Jackson had already come and gone by the time Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto