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OT: World Politics

LeafGm said:
Yep. In some ways, France’s government is like ours or the UK, with a parliament and a Prime Minister who’s appointed by the head-of-state and serves as long as they have the confidence of the house.

But in France, instead of a Governor-General or monarch, the head-of-state is the President, who is elected to five-year terms. That President is Macron and his current term runs to 2027.

And what just happened specifically is that the PM that Macron appointed (who wasn’t really a reflection of the election results) has lost a no-confidence vote in parliament and his government has been dissolved as a result. And it’s up to Macron to find a new person to appoint as PM, who can secure the confidence of parliament.
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And I read in the Globe I believe that they cannot call new elections again until next year, so they either reach a compromise or…stop governing?
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
The only Korean person I ever knew was a nice lady who was my first piano teacher back in 1973.

Now answer my question. What difference would it have made if the North Koreans had just overrun the South And the UN hadn't intervened? Then do Vietnam.

These were useless proxy wars that achieved nothing and changed nothing. And in both Korea and Vietnam the US had to prop up corrupt, criminal regimes that the people hated. And why did the US sacrifice their troops for these scumbag politicians? Because they were anti-communists. Big effin' deal.
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but you are totally cool with sacrificing soldiers to fight political regimes with which you disagree, how is that different?
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
but you are totally cool with sacrificing soldiers to fight political regimes with which you disagree, how is that different?
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I disagree with North Korea but they aren't trying to enslave the world, just the South Koreans. The Russians are merely STARTING with the Ukrainians. They have no intention of stopping there. Unlike North Korea, Russia poses an existential threat to the world order. They need to be crushed.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
as you would say, if they had to die to fight fascism, so be it
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They weren't fighting against fascism, they were fighting to preserve fascist regimes that were friendly to US interests.

Based on the ideals upon which the US was founded, they should have been in the side of the Viet Cong, not propping up the corrupt Diem regime in Saigon.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
They weren't fighting against fascism, they were fighting to preserve fascist regimes that were friendly to US interests.

Based on the ideals upon which the US was founded, they should have been in the side of the Viet Cong, not propping up the corrupt Diem regime in Saigon.
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North Korea and North Vietnam were just left wing authoritarian fascists
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
North Korea and North Vietnam were just left wing authoritarian fascists
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The Vietnamese people had been occupied by the French and then the Americans. They were fighting to evict these imperial powers just like the American revolutionaries did to the British. From an ideological standpoint, the US should have been on the side of the peasants who wanted independence from the French. But the US intervened to preserve imperial power instead.
 
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