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  • Aarkon@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerica
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    3 years ago

    This fruit is just too sweet not to reap it: It’s really cute how it doesn’t fit into your head how more than one person in the world doesn’t share your view about the same.

    So much imagination in one place, so little in the other!


  • Aarkon@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerica
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    3 years ago

    Always interested to see what you try to make out of my words. You could have been a gifted sculptor for all I know, you neither lack imagination nor the aspiration to transform stuff into something completely different.

    I didn’t say basically anything you imply and have not enough time nor energy to waste in “discussions” with fundamentalists, so I’ll just conclude my annotations to your pseudointellectual ramblings with another “if you say so”.


  • Aarkon@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerica
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    3 years ago

    I don’t get where did you even suddenly put in the word “desirable”.

    You used Clausewitz’ description in terms of legitimizing war as a matter of politics (as you opposed someone else sarcastically saying you had to accept war as a matter of dispute between nations). If that was not your intention, then your post contains mostly whataboutism, pointing at others doing the same (?) thing in order to not be accused for something.

    Obviously some wars are better than the others, for example liberation wars, while US imperialist wars are utterly reprehensible.

    Yeah. If you say so.

    250+ conflict since WW2 can attest

    It’s 77 years since the end of WWII. There are around 200 countries in the world (also depending on how Mother Russia feels today about further annexations). A “conflict” is an extremely wide term. Therefore, I’m surprised it’s not more than that.
    Politics are very different today than in the time of Bonaparte, therefore war as a matter of those and the reasons for it are hardly the same. So what I don’t get is why you pull out that 200 years old quote to excuse nations colliding in war in modern times. Yes, war is a reality. Of course it is, nobody ever denied that, just look what a great point you made there! But hell, do we have to like that or drop every effort to overcome it? Europe for instance lives in peace since the end of Nazi Germany, which is probably the longest period since, I don’t know, like ever? Yeah, not everybody was happy with every compromise that came with that peace. But I suggest that those were/are still better than open war.

    Let ideas fight & die, not people.


  • Aarkon@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerica
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    3 years ago

    This excuse fits every despicable war the US fought in the past just as well as Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Not sure if this is what you were after.

    Also, in the years and years since Clausewitz wrote what you quote, one might acknowledge that international standards have come a long way. Just consider the historical context of the Napoleonic Wars, it’s just not the world we live in anymore.
    Additionally, Clausewitz only meant that as an observation, not as something desirable.