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| 2 months ago | mod | Removed Comment I'm sure reasonable discourse is impossible here but fuck it let's try anyway.
I don't think it's unreasonable for historically oppressed people to have a place carved out for them for self rule from the territory of their oppressors after the latter is defeated. Most jews probably wouldn't have wanted to live there anyway but it would have been better than what happened to Palestine and euros haven't exactly earned my trust on this one. The zionist movement, evil as it is, was born of very real oppression that has still never been truly addressed. Given time, respect, and healing, peoples can find common ground and possibly even reunify, but only on their own terms. It's not settler colonialism to have a safe place to live from lands you already lived in yesterday, as opposed to 2000 years ago.
And hey look at that, I managed to write all that without attacking your character, asshole. by All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml reason: zionist apologia |
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In all fairness it's possible that if a conceptual Israel didn't exist Europeans would try to exterminate the jews every time a cracker stubs their toe.
It just should have been carved out of Germany. by All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml reason: zionist apologia |
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Edit: and hexbear, jfc you people are fucking idiots
Edit 2: I guess I'll just block you all one by one by Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com reason: Rule 8 |
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| 3 months ago | mod | Removed Comment First time for everything? I think the Pol Pot argument has already been debated many times. I think it just comes down to a fundamental disagreement: Was it worth it to help the Khmer Rogue which committed genocide, killing working class people, in order to (debatably) lower the chance of a Soviet-Vietnamese invasion of China that could kill hundreds of millions working class? More than WW2.
There's lots of evidence ([source](https://annas-archive.org/md5/f5df916507ebcbaa12dae26858c88933)) China knew what was happening in Cambodia, disagreed with it, but supported them anyways.
> He said that China did not like the policies of Pol Pot but it would never allow such a strategic area to fall to the Vietnamese. “China will never stand idly by,” he said. “We will take appropriate measures.” Deng strongly hinted that the Chinese response would be military punishment of Vietnam.
> The documents captured by the Vietnamese at Ta Sanh included transcripts of talks between the Chinese leaders and Ieng Sary held on four different occasions. At a meeting on January 13, 1979, Deng scolded Sary for “the cleansing campaign you are conducting—a campaign somewhat excessive and of too broad a scope.” The Khmer Rouge purges, Deng bluntly told him, caused China inconveniences and brought “quite a few negative results.” He pointed to the Chinese example of united fronts with lesser enemies, such as the one formed with Chiang Kai-shek during the anti-Japanese war, and he urged Sary to draw Prince Sihanouk into a front.
In a perfect world they would have supported Sihanouk but he was in exile in China and the Khmer Rogue was against him. From my understanding the Khmer Rogue were basically the only ones fighting Vietnam. It was pretty much China's only option if wanted to stop Soviet social-imperialism in Indochina. I think the in Fallaci interview Deng shows his thought process
> Deng: Do you want to talk about the Vietnamese? Look, from a globally strategic point of view, the Vietnamese are merely following in the Soviet Union’s footsteps. As I always say, they’ve become the Cuba of the East. Isn’t it proof enough that they’ve occupied Laos and Cambodia? What else do you need to see before you ask, “What the hell kind of country is this?” We Chinese are completely unable to understand why they’ve opposed themselves to us. During their struggle for independence, we helped them greatly. We never abandoned them — never. Nor did we interfere with their internal affairs. Do you even know the kind of help we gave them over the years? The aid we sent is, comprehensively, about $20 billion. And we never asked anything in return. I’ll say this: $20 billion is a lot of money for a poor country like China.
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> Fallaci: But then you killed each other in a conflict that amounted to a small war.
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> Deng: Yes, it’s true that we launched a defensive counterattack against them. But, judging by the results, I don’t think that it was very effective. We were too contained; we saw that many countries were against this action, and as a result we were too contained. But the episode proved how determined we are to chastise the tiger. And we reserve the right to chastise the tiger again.
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> Fallaci: It’s one of the traumas of our time, Mr. Deng, because we all weep for Vietnam; we all fought against the war in Vietnam. And today some of us are asking, were we making a mistake; were we wrong?
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> Deng: No! No, no, we were not making a mistake; we were not wrong. We Chinese do not regret taking their side. It was right to help them, and we will do so every time that a people fights against a foreign invasion. But today in Vietnam the situation is reversed, and we need to confront that situation.
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> Fallaci: Yes, but even the Chinese are wrong sometimes, Mr. Deng. How can you possibly take the side of Pol Pot?
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> Deng: Listen, we look truth in the face — right in the face. Who liberated Cambodia? Who got rid of the Americans and the American-supported regime of Lon Nol? Was it, perhaps, democratic Cambodia — the Cambodian Communist Party, led by Pol Pot? At the time, Prince Sihanouk had no power; he had been deposed by his own people. We continued to support him regardless, and we accommodated his exile government in Beijing. But Sihanouk was not fighting in Cambodia; the Cambodian Communist Party was. They won, almost with no outside help. And do you know why they had no help? Because almost all the aid sent by China was confiscated in Vietnam. China shares no borders with Cambodia, so, in order to help them, we had to send our aid through Vietnam, and they took everything. Nothing ever reached Cambodia — nothing.
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> Fallaci: But Pol Pot...
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> Deng: Yes, I know what you want to say. It’s true that Pol Pot and his government made very serious mistakes. We are not ignorant of this. We were not ignorant of it at the time, and, looking back, I can admit that we may have been wrong not to talk to him about it. We’ve said as much to Pol Pot. The fact is that our policy has always been not to comment on the affairs of other parties or of other countries. China is a big country, and we do not want it to seem that we are imposing ourselves. Anyhow, today the reality we have to face has changed: who is fighting the Vietnamese? Sihanouk still has no power; groups like Son Sann are too weak; and the only ones who are able to conduct an effective resistance against the Vietnamese are the Communists who follow Pol Pot. And the Cambodian people are following them.
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> Fallaci: I don’t believe it, Mr. Deng. How is it possible that the Cambodians are following the same people who massacred them, dismembered them, destroyed them with blood and terror? You are talking about mistakes, Mr. Deng. But genocide is not a mistake, and genocide is what Pol Pot has done. A million people have been eliminated by Pol Pot.
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> Deng: The figure you name is not at all certain. You don’t believe that the Cambodian people are following Pol Pot, and I don’t believe that Pol Pot has killed a million people. One million out of four or five million? That’s nonsense — crazy. Yes, he killed many people, but let’s not exaggerate. He also had the bad policy of removing people from the cities, but let’s not exaggerate. And I tell you that he has the support of the people, and his power grows more every day. And I tell you that opposing Pol Pot — trying to overthrow him — only helps the Vietnamese. Eh! There are people in this world who live outside of reality, who won’t give someone who has made an error the chance to mend his ways.
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> Fallaci: Then I’m afraid I’m one of those people who live outside of reality, Mr. Deng. In order to convince us that he truly wanted to mend his ways, Pol Pot would have to resuscitate all the people he slaughtered.
And I do disagree with Deng here, Pol Pot probably couldn't be redeemed after Vietnam withdrew.
> “I do not understand,” [Deng] fumed, “why some people want to remove Pol Pot. It is true that he made some mistakes in the past but now he is leading the fight against the Vietnamese aggressors.”
China also couldn't just send the PLA to Cambodia either, because they were against the perceived hegemony that the USSR and US commit, and that would be a somewhat hypocritical foreign policy.
> “If we send our soldiers to Cambodia,” Politburo member in charge of international affairs Geng Biao argued, “what kind of impression shall we create in the eye of the Southeast Asian countries and other countries in the world? In addition to the failure in building up the united front against hegemony by uniting with the Third World countries, we shall become another new hegemonic power.” He said that Moscow in fact hoped China would send troops to Cambodia. The Soviet Union would then be able to mobilize world opinion against China and so hinder its modernization. by chenyun_fan1905@lemmy.ml reason: Genocide apologia |
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| 8 months ago | mod | Removed Comment since hexbears are incapable of self-critique, they must be imagining they're on the left by  monk@lemmy.unboiled.inforeason: Lib |
| 8 months ago | mod | Removed Comment Modern reading of Chamberlain's appeasment policy is that he knew Hitler would never back down and knew that war was inevitable. He also knew that the British Army was woefully under equipped and under prepared for a major conflict with Germany.
Had France and Britain marched against Germany after they reoccupied the Rhineland or the Sudetenland crisis then they would have been destroyed and Germany, with a nonagression pact with Stalin would have been unopposed in Europe completely. by Denjin@feddit.uk reason: nazi apologia |
| 8 months ago | mod | Removed Comment This is very silly. Did Obama kill some people? Yeah maybe, but with drones I think? Article talked about banks abusing foreclosure relief that Obama worked on. He worked on a lot of things though.. like Obamacare which saved a lot of lives I'm sure. Failing to save people from foreclosures is hardly killing people. At least he tried. He didn't participate in the destruction of democracy. At least he played the role of respectful and dignified POTUS. He had the stones to go toe to toe with Putin. I would even hazard to say, Ukraine war wouldn't have happened because Putin is only taking advantage in the weakness of our leadership. I'd take a Republican president if they had some decency at this point. by TarantulaFudge@lemmy.ml reason: Unironic Obama apologia |
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